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Originally Posted by humfrz
Now THAT reminds me of a back-in-the-day field research story. We were evaluating the efficacy of an experimental stored grain products insecticide.
My employee as the field researcher, I was the study director. Since the experiment was to be conducted under EPA's GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) we had to take along a QA (Quality Assurance) officer, which was a female, that was a pain in the ass.
The location was a remote grain storage facility in northern Idaho. Of course is was in the dead of winter and the temperature was 8 degrees F with a wind speed of 35 mph. Yes, the snow was blowing in both directions around the elevator.
The experiment was going according to plan, when my ink pen froze up. So, I started using a pencil to record the date. About then the pain in the ass QA, which happened to be a female, stormed out a her heated pickup truck and declared that she would have to invalidate the data because it was being recorded in pencil not an ink pen, as per EPA/GLP regulations!
I tried to explain the situation but she was having none of it. As the study director, I TOLD her to put her sorry ass back in her warm pickup truck and let the MEN finish the research project!
Yep, she wrote me up, but I appealed it and won my case.
(maybe I shouldn't have talked down to her for being a female -  )
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Reminds me of a story where I responded to a corrective action request that the project engineers were hiding from me (because it was ridiculous) with what was essentially [No, we did everything the way we said we would and you approved it so why the hell are you writing this up].
So the PEs caved and said my group would all have to take a training class before the next test event and everyone involved in future events of that nature would have to take it too.
Fast forward a year and a bit. I moved on before having to take the training, and the QA person now has my old job. You cannot imagine the pleasure it brought me to casually ask the current QA folks whether the current test lead (my old job) ever actually took the mandated training. In the middle of her test event. She hadn't, but I knew that already.
