Sunday, July 10, 2011

How the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor


How the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor

Current mood:annoyed

The story goes that during WWII, that the compartmentalization of reseach in Germany and Japan was so tight, that teams would be researching the same project (there were a lot of them working on atomic weapons/new weapons/better ways to have the trains run on time) yet none of them were ever told that there were others doing the same work. Result? They each invented the wheel, many times over. Some group would discover something, while it may have been months (if ever) when the other groups discovered the same thing. Every one eventually traveled up the road that others had already been on.
Kinda like working here.
On a painfully regular basis we get calls from someone at a Station requesting some information - what are so and so's certifications. What are your air pack numbers? Dates of the last time they were hydro tested. Soup to nuts. We dutifully dig up the info, send it to the great shredder in the sky, and await the next call, that we know will be coming in a couple of months - requesting the same info. And so it goes...
So, now it is certifications. Who is certified at this level at your station? I have had this particular certification for 6 years, so someone there should already know this. Its not like it is some big secret. We generated the requested e-mail, knowing that it is going togo to some stove pipe compartmentalization place, where one person will know. But the other 400 plus people in this department will not.
Not being the smartest guy in the world, I do realize that there is a better way. Has to be. Duh...maybe a master list? Appoint someone to keep up with these kinds of things, and make them the go-to guy for this kind of info...
So, being the dutiful researchers on the FD version of the Manahatten Project, we await the next time someone dumps their in-box, and the next round of already answered a dozen times before hand questions arrive (always in some sort ofexcited phone call - stop everything, and we mean everything, and do this, or some pithy worded e-mail asking why we are such dumbasses, for not anticipating this question before hand)...
Even the shitheads at McDonald's do not forget how to make a cheeseburger, when they get off of work, and go home for the day...
Just wait. It'll visit your doorstep, soon enough, if B Hussein Obama gets elected, and he impliments that 'Universal Health Care crap that the ex-First Yenta tried to shove down our throats, and you have to give a life history at the doctor's office just to get an asprin..
Sigh...

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