Chocolate Day/Clean Out Your Computer Day/Abraham Lincoln's Birthday/Abraham Lincoln Birthday Celebration (Nebraska)/Carnival (Spain)
2007-02-12 @ 7:12 p.m.

Whoever came up with the idea that flow charts, Gantt charts, Ishikawa diagrams (which are also known as fishbone diagrams because that's what they look like), matrix tables, radar charts and tree diagrams are useful for clarifying and simplifying thought processes ought to be shot. Don't give me that drivel about how it's part of quality management. It's just a bunch of tools for lazy people who don't want to think about what they're reading, so let's just break it all down into boxes and lines for them to absorb. If anything, this is a sign that the world's getting more stupid. They certainly didn't have Ishikawa diagrams during the Renaissance, and look what they did. I just spent an entire day reformatting a perfectly straightforward report according to some insane template that obscures more than it illumines. A lot of the stuff is more or less the kind of thing I'd have been faking back in the days of PW, so if there are people actually seriously doing their projects in this manner, it's no wonder nothing ever seems to get done around here. On a brighter note, my IC can be really nice, but only to people who're helping him. Just now, I did something really careless and stupid that might have caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people, but he didn't even yell at me. He seemed more amazed that I'd actually gone and done it. Hopefully, all goes well and the report gets praised. I secretly want to be the new office boy, typing reports everyday. Hey, it's better than sitting in the store, waiting to be summoned to some unsavoury task. Like sweeping the corridor. Like returning tables and benches to the QM store. Haha...

This week:

International Flirting Week