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While visiting the site, Yup-early Saturday morning, my Grandson, who had spent an overnight here, looked over my shoulder to see what “Grampy” was doing. What caught his eye, was the colorful emoticons, at first. I was preparing a response to a post and he was reading what I was typing. He is 8 years old. He asked, “Grampy, what are doing?” I told him I was working at home. Ha Ha. He asked, “What kind of work do you do? I kind of know what Mom and Dad and Grammy do.” I found myself pondering how to respond to an 8 year old that wants to know what we quality geeks do. After blustering to him, and myself, “I’m a Quality Manager”, (I deliberately left out “Control” or “Assurance” because even we have different opinions about that), he asked, “What’s that?”
Well, it was if I was speaking another language as I tried to equate my job with something he could grasp. It was easier when I was an Inspector. “I inspect things to make sure they were O.K.” I noticed he had a battery operated remote controlled “Quad” toy in his hand. He had momentarily taken a brief respite from testing its impact worthiness against the furniture, walls and various obstacles on the floor. I then told him that there is a group of people whose jobs it is to make sure that toy doesn’t break under normal use. That it runs a certain amount of time on the batteries. That it works just like the package says. All the little parts are checked to make sure they can be put together. There are the people who actually do “inspecting” of everything. There are people who do the “testing” that it works right. Everything, including the colorful box and the Styrofoam container, was designed by people who do “Design” work. Kind of like artists. All those things that the other people do are written down so they don’t forget how to do their job.
Now the best part: The Quality Manager, me Grampy, oversees it all to make sure that everything is done right. That everybody follows their instructions. If they don’t follow their instructions, Grampy has to find out why and fix it.
Man, am I full of myself, or what? Don’t answer that.
My Grandson then said, I swear, “That sounds like a pretty important job”.
It is, you Quality Geeks, it really is!
While visiting the site, Yup-early Saturday morning, my Grandson, who had spent an overnight here, looked over my shoulder to see what “Grampy” was doing. What caught his eye, was the colorful emoticons, at first. I was preparing a response to a post and he was reading what I was typing. He is 8 years old. He asked, “Grampy, what are doing?” I told him I was working at home. Ha Ha. He asked, “What kind of work do you do? I kind of know what Mom and Dad and Grammy do.” I found myself pondering how to respond to an 8 year old that wants to know what we quality geeks do. After blustering to him, and myself, “I’m a Quality Manager”, (I deliberately left out “Control” or “Assurance” because even we have different opinions about that), he asked, “What’s that?”
Well, it was if I was speaking another language as I tried to equate my job with something he could grasp. It was easier when I was an Inspector. “I inspect things to make sure they were O.K.” I noticed he had a battery operated remote controlled “Quad” toy in his hand. He had momentarily taken a brief respite from testing its impact worthiness against the furniture, walls and various obstacles on the floor. I then told him that there is a group of people whose jobs it is to make sure that toy doesn’t break under normal use. That it runs a certain amount of time on the batteries. That it works just like the package says. All the little parts are checked to make sure they can be put together. There are the people who actually do “inspecting” of everything. There are people who do the “testing” that it works right. Everything, including the colorful box and the Styrofoam container, was designed by people who do “Design” work. Kind of like artists. All those things that the other people do are written down so they don’t forget how to do their job.
Now the best part: The Quality Manager, me Grampy, oversees it all to make sure that everything is done right. That everybody follows their instructions. If they don’t follow their instructions, Grampy has to find out why and fix it.
Man, am I full of myself, or what? Don’t answer that.
My Grandson then said, I swear, “That sounds like a pretty important job”.
It is, you Quality Geeks, it really is!
Thanks for the chuckle!!!