Fury, Flurry & Futility

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The usual caveat, that none of this is true, it must be made up because it’s all to freaking surreal:

The new QA started work today, nobody from senior management bothered to tell the QM, as per previous entry, she’s still not even been consulted on the suitability of this person, nor has there been any evaluation of the post or interview process. QA has no Audit, Quality or IT skills; which are kind of essential for the role. But seemingly does have an ability to be parachuted into a post that doesn’t really exist.

So having arrived this morning it was quickly established that she had no where to sit, no desk, no chair, no phone, no computer. There’s nowhere for QA to go, because we physically don’t have a spare desk or computer. So she’s trying to hot desk onto computers as they come free around the place; It is a little tedious for all concerned to find someone waiting to sit at your desk every time you stand up, to get a couple of minutes on a p.c.

We used to have a spare p.c., was supposed to be spare for anyone to use, but has been recently commandeered by another department due to lack of resources, and a further hurdle being that we don’t have any spare licenses to install the software she needs as it’s not already on this computer.

I would point out that we’ve just spent approx  £10,000 on new workstations so that most of the consultants in part of our organisation can have 3 computers each, such that they don’t have to trouble their ickle legs and walk to their office and use the one that’s especially just for them. Now they have 3 each especially just for them, 1 for where ever they happen to be in the department. A department they are rarely in because they are off out and about doing other things. I digress, because this is apparently irrelevant.

Not least of all because the QM has spent most of the day guiding the QA in the use of spread sheets, how to enter data and draw graphs. This is something of a fundamental IT skill for this role, but we’ve been through that. You may also recall from a previous post that we’ve got the Auditors coming in 2 weeks, if they don’t like what they see, then theoretically they can close us down. QM is also doing the work of 10 other staff, when compared to organisations of a similar size, so you can imagine the stress and frustration. Still not to worry, the consultants get to preen amidst their technoglorious offices, the Quality ‘team’ have their deadline, everyone else gets to squabble and fight to get access to a computer, just to do their job.