My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

With all of these people getting dooced (see also) lately it seems that there has been a bit of a pandemic, or the press has created a pandemic at the very least.

I've been trying to read through all of my previous posts doing searches to work out whether or not I've said anything: incriminating; against company policy; or even giving away too much information. There is but a handful of posts that mention a little too much information which I've not changed - but as far as sackable offenses - who the hell really knows?

My company only just decided to get an internet policy after my boss paid an expert business analyst for advice on how to enhance the business. The business analyst basically said to do a SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis and come up with a communication policy for phones and internet.

The SWOT that we went through sort of misses the major components of an engineering business - something that didn't seem to matter much to my boss. Making things worse is the fact that half of what was written in the SWOT we are not qualified to carry out - again something that my boss didn't seem to mind.

The communication policy was rather well meaning but loosely worded and not formalised. Most of our company "policies" and "procedures" are either not kept on record or kept on record but records of where they're kept on record are not known. That is to say - my boss is the only person in my company that realises we have any procedures. He often brings it up that - "this is the way we do things in our company..." which is all fine and dandy - but if only he does things that way, the company has more than one employee in it, then, it is not the way "we" do things in the company.

A quality management system would not go astray. Infact a quality management system for a small company would be easy to manage and a godsend. My boss? He doesn't believe in quality management systems and think they're a cream of the month type of thing and will be forgotten about. He doesn't realise that the reason they're not brought up as much anymore is because most companies have them so it is presumed that you have one.

Quality management would be a much better investment than a colour consultant - yes - that is our next business "consultant" to turn up. The colour consultant has suggested colours in the interim that are exactly the same as every other building in this town - they must have consulted everyone! :)