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Sorry folks, but I have to get this off my chest!!! 
I have been working on updating procedures and getting them into a suitable format for an intranet based quality management system since August last year. The entire premise was that there would be no paper, no printing. The system is nothing fancy- just PDFs in HTML table of contents style pages - but it works.
The company is a wholesale and retail distributor of electrical goods, with 76 storefront outlets scattered throughout Australia, so a central system makes a great deal of sense, one would think - right???
Early this week I was told that the stores only have one computer capable of internet access, which is on the manager's desk where he carries out lots of his daily duties. It has taken me until today to really convince myself that this is real - all other computers are dumb terminals, so unless the manager vacates his desk no-one else can get at the quality management system!!!
How the h&*l are they supposed to use the latest forms? Read the updated procedures?? Even receive the email notifications of revisions???
Excuse the expletive, but it's just so much b*^%*$t!!!
Thanks for listening
I have been working on updating procedures and getting them into a suitable format for an intranet based quality management system since August last year. The entire premise was that there would be no paper, no printing. The system is nothing fancy- just PDFs in HTML table of contents style pages - but it works.
The company is a wholesale and retail distributor of electrical goods, with 76 storefront outlets scattered throughout Australia, so a central system makes a great deal of sense, one would think - right???
Early this week I was told that the stores only have one computer capable of internet access, which is on the manager's desk where he carries out lots of his daily duties. It has taken me until today to really convince myself that this is real - all other computers are dumb terminals, so unless the manager vacates his desk no-one else can get at the quality management system!!!
How the h&*l are they supposed to use the latest forms? Read the updated procedures?? Even receive the email notifications of revisions???
Excuse the expletive, but it's just so much b*^%*$t!!!
Thanks for listening

