If it ain't broke...fix it till it is.

“What are you doing, Jan?”

“Changing the settings so I can get a better image.”

“You’re not allowed to do that anymore, you have to let quality control send them back to be rescanned.”

“But I’ll be doing the quality control, and the rescans, so why not just do it now?”

“I pointed that out to the powers that be, they said that was the way it had to be done now.”

“I take it you also pointed out what happened last time someone did this?”

“I tried, but the IT crew said they have worked it out now and the settings are perfect for every job.”

“And it always snows at Christmas in their world too, I’m sure. However in the real world, the job will take twice as long and half returned like last time. They’ll blame us, and panic and ask how it can be prevented in the future…again.”

“That is their problem, just do your best.”

“Fine, thanks for letting me know, see you tomorrow.”

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“Afternoon Jan, how’s it going?”

“Hi Mel, you’d better sit down, you won’t believe this.”

“That good eh?”

“You remember that time we couldn’t do our job properly because the IT lot said we didn’t need to change anything?”

“When all jobs took twice as long and a load were sent back because certain people didn’t do their job properly? Wait you’re not saying…”

“Oh it’s back, and the punch line of this old joke, we cannot change the settings in rescan, it’s greyed out. The settings are wrong so don’t even bother trying.”

“You think it’s too late to call in sick?”

“Unfortunately, it is. We’re about to be chewed out for talking. Sorry about that, she hates me for some reason.”

“I think pointing out, politely, that she had done the headers wrong set her against you, she is itching for you to mess up.”

“That would explain the song and dance she did when she got in; apparently I made a mistake yesterday, I did an extra zero on one page…crap, here it comes, literally if she had her way.”

“Have you finished that job yet? Or are you to busy talking?”

“I was passing on the new work instructions and restrictions to Mel, and letting her know not to rescan the batches in there as they will not come out any better.”

“Well, we are thankful for your expert opinion, but I feel the job would go quicker if you explained as you worked, rather than you just talking.”

“I’ll practice my telepathy for future reference.”

“There is no need for that attitude, just try and get through a shift without messing up.”

“All five minutes left will be error free, guaranteed.”

“Bloody place,”

"You’re preaching to the choir, but you know what they're like; if it isn’t broke, fix it until it is…or we are.”