Audit's can be fun if you let them.

Randy

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This week I'm on a Quality & Environmental recertification audit with a coworker (multi-site certification and he's the Lead on this one and this is his client). Anyway, we're with the Quality Manager, the Corporate EHS Manager, a Quality Engineer and an Environmental Engineer, reviewing roles, responsibilities and all that real exciting stuff. We've reviewed a couple job descriptions verifying the QMS/EMS stuff is in them and we get to the looking at the Environmental Engineer's job and come across a statement that neither of us has seen before in our combined 30+ years of doing this 3rd party certification fun & games.

The Environmental Engineer's description was pretty much the same as what many of us have seen for years, education, reporting requirements, job specifics and all that including the "catch all phrase" duties as assigned from time to time.....No big deal. BUT...........There was 1 job responsibility that when we saw it, we looked at each other, looked back at the folks we were with and laughed, not a rude laugh, but a "what the heck is this, funny/humorous laugh" (now it is extremely bad form to laugh during an audit, but when something is funny, it's funny and the people we were with were laughing with us, it was one of those things you just couldn't help. In the half dozen or so job descriptions we reviewed the Environmental Engineer's is the only one with this statement........

"Must be able to effect change in a non-threatening manner"

A "non-threatening manner"? Attention immediately turned to the Environmental Engineer who sat back and said "wasn't me! I've only been here 8 months)" This of course created a lighthearted discussion and a welcome break in an the otherwise serious activity at hand and one of the funniest things I've encountered in years.

"Non-threatening manner", that is rich!:ROFLMAO:
 

normzone

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I have declined to encourage some people who wanted to pursue becoming an internal auditor because they lacked the appropriate diplomatic skills. And then there was the fellow who wanted to become a Highway Patrol officer so he could pull over his ex girlfriend's new boyfriend ...
 

Tidge

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I have declined to encourage some people who wanted to pursue becoming an internal auditor because they lacked the appropriate diplomatic skills. And then there was the fellow who wanted to become a Highway Patrol officer so he could pull over his ex girlfriend's new boyfriend ...
From an era that pre-dated the (as currently used on social media) term 'Karen': I knew a person whose self-assessed as a "great auditor" because (a) "I am good at finding problems" and (b) "I can tell when people are lying."
 
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