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It is illegal to drive a pig over London bridge and it is also illegal to set off a nuclear weapon in the city limits of LA.It is perfectly legal to shoot someone from Wales with a crossbow should they be found in the county of shropshire on the weekend.
I'm generally pretty law abiding and I try to obey the rules and protocols of whatever job I'm in but there are some pretty scarey people I have met that take anal beureaucracy to untold heights. Now I'm not a rebel you know, I will use common sense if a rule doesn't fit a situation, whatever works do it but some people will follow a rule that can cause damage simply because that is the rule. I'm talking the Central Beureacracy type mentality of Futurama, or the information retrieval type mentality from Brazil, you know idiots
Anyway here's an example of just someone being too too anal for their own good, a Jobsworth. I once had a situation where a piece of medical equipments insulation had come lose so that it's inner insualtion was showing slightly and as is procedure we send it for repair( who knows when the inner insulation is going to wear and present a risk to patient or staffs health, this is common sense) however on entering a discussion with a colleaugue about it we ended discussing if there was a scenario were you could say get away from this and do something else, you know how idle conversations develop and of course I took the discussion to the logical extreme, what if this piece of equipment was needed imediately to keep said patient alive, would you jury rig a bit of electrical tape over the area and let them continue using it assuming there was no alternative? My colleague said no he would take it out of use because that is the rule? And I said, you'd kill someone rather than break the rule? And he said yes, he would let the patient die( naturaly I was somewhat horrified and I pressed him on it which lead to a fairly heated discussion with weighty reference to ethics and moral rule) Thinking he was obviously an exception to the rule of common sense I asked around the department and everyone I met said they would do the jury rig thing and then take it out of service later when they could. My colleague reported this to my boss, who agreed with him that it would be better to let the patient die rather than put people at a potential risk, I said that single insulation is not a risk, didn't matter?
My question is have you met people like this, you know rule judges and jobsworths. People who when asked why they massacred 700 people would say "I was just following orders", morons basically,:rofl: not suggesting that my boss or colleague are morons, they aren't at all, misguided and somewhat beureacratic maybe
I could bore you with a million and one odd rules that cause more damage than they solve but I wont.
EDIt: Oh and all PF rules are eminmently sensible and fair btw,
I'm generally pretty law abiding and I try to obey the rules and protocols of whatever job I'm in but there are some pretty scarey people I have met that take anal beureaucracy to untold heights. Now I'm not a rebel you know, I will use common sense if a rule doesn't fit a situation, whatever works do it but some people will follow a rule that can cause damage simply because that is the rule. I'm talking the Central Beureacracy type mentality of Futurama, or the information retrieval type mentality from Brazil, you know idiots
Anyway here's an example of just someone being too too anal for their own good, a Jobsworth. I once had a situation where a piece of medical equipments insulation had come lose so that it's inner insualtion was showing slightly and as is procedure we send it for repair( who knows when the inner insulation is going to wear and present a risk to patient or staffs health, this is common sense) however on entering a discussion with a colleaugue about it we ended discussing if there was a scenario were you could say get away from this and do something else, you know how idle conversations develop and of course I took the discussion to the logical extreme, what if this piece of equipment was needed imediately to keep said patient alive, would you jury rig a bit of electrical tape over the area and let them continue using it assuming there was no alternative? My colleague said no he would take it out of use because that is the rule? And I said, you'd kill someone rather than break the rule? And he said yes, he would let the patient die( naturaly I was somewhat horrified and I pressed him on it which lead to a fairly heated discussion with weighty reference to ethics and moral rule) Thinking he was obviously an exception to the rule of common sense I asked around the department and everyone I met said they would do the jury rig thing and then take it out of service later when they could. My colleague reported this to my boss, who agreed with him that it would be better to let the patient die rather than put people at a potential risk, I said that single insulation is not a risk, didn't matter?
My question is have you met people like this, you know rule judges and jobsworths. People who when asked why they massacred 700 people would say "I was just following orders", morons basically,:rofl: not suggesting that my boss or colleague are morons, they aren't at all, misguided and somewhat beureacratic maybe
I could bore you with a million and one odd rules that cause more damage than they solve but I wont.
EDIt: Oh and all PF rules are eminmently sensible and fair btw,
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