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The next person who tells me “That’s the way we’ve always done it” is freakin’ FIRED! Or it's an ass-kicking; either way...



I keep finding unrelated information being left in reports submitted for my review. When I ask the author why the paragraph, having no relevance to the project, was left in the report, the reoccurring answer is, “That was in the last one…”. It makes me want to scream.



TD Jakes tells a wonderful story about a girl watching her mother prepare the Sunday ham. The mother neatly sliced about two inches off each end of the ham before placing it in the roasting pan. “Why did you do that?” asked the girl. The mother replied, “My mother always did that when she did the Sunday ham.” “But why?” asked the daughter. “I really don’t know,” said the mother, “let’s call her and ask”.



They phoned the mother’s mother and asked the same question. “I don’t know,” she said. “That’s what my mother always did.” So they called her mother. And got the same answer, “My mother always did that.”



Luckily, the great-great grandmother was still alive. The mother and daughter phoned her. “I always cut the ends off of the ham,” she said, “because I didn’t have a pan big enough for a whole ham.”

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Sinora
17:05 Feb 02 2009

What a great example of questioning a ritual lol

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birra
19:50 Feb 02 2009

I've worked with enough large businesses and government agencies to know... they really don't care about dear-old great-grandmother's reasons. Just because is good enough, so do it the way they say or they'll get mad, hold a grudge and/or fire you for having logic....

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ALPHAWOLF
18:38 Jun 25 2009

tell them u need full reports and related information

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