What's the funniest thing you've ever seen during an audit?

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Baldrick

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Given the vast number of subscribers to this service, I'm sure between us we must have seen some pretty funny :D , scary :eek: or just plain weird :nope: things during audits over the years.

As it's Friday, would anyone care to share their experiences to provide the rest of us with some cheap entertainment? Names should be changed to protect the guilty...
 
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Baldrick said:
As it's Friday, would anyone care to share their experiences to provide the rest of us with some cheap entertainment? Names should be changed to protect the guilty...
By all means. :D This little mishap occured before I even took up auditing myself, probably in the mid 80's:To make a long story wonderfully short a bunch of external auditors (2-part audit) disregarded all kinds of warnings and stepped very close to a wheel loader coming right off the line, while it was being started for the very first time. Then it happened... A hydraulic hose let go, and you all know what that means, right?

The thing started whipping around like an agitated snake while distributing oil in a very random fashion... S-t-r-i-i-i-k-e! It got them all, and let me tell you, it got them good. I mean: We've all seen drips in suits, but have you ever seen a dripping suit? I nearly hurt myself trying to stifle my laughter before I was able to slip around a corner and let it loose.:lmao:

Before you ask: No, I was not their guide. I just happened to be there.

/Claes
 
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jmp4429

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I just wanted to say there's an old thread entitled "World's Funniest Audit Stories" or similar in the Auditing forum. World's Funniest Audit Experiences.

This is not meant to discourage anyone from posting, but to provide additional entertainment. It's been a long, long week.

Please, keep them coming!
 
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mshell

#4
That is pretty funny Claes.


The funniest thing I have ever seen happened during our pre-assessment. We had a really tall dutch auditor. He was auditing in Georgia (USA) in a very southern town. The lady that he was interviewing was really short and had a strong southern accent so there was a communication barrier not to mention the fact that she only came us to his knees. The auditor got down on his knees in the middle of the production floor so that he could talk to her face to face.
 
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mshell said:
That is pretty funny Claes.


The funniest thing I have ever seen happened during our pre-assessment. We had a really tall dutch auditor. He was auditing in Georgia (USA) in a very southern town. The lady that he was interviewing was really short and had a strong southern accent so there was a communication barrier not to mention the fact that she only came us to his knees. The auditor got down on his knees in the middle of the production floor so that he could talk to her face to face.
WOW!!! AN AUDITOR ON HIS KNEES!!!!!
you should have a picture of that.
Isn't that sort of like the "man bites dog" story

James
 
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David Hartman

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One of our internal auditors wrote a finding against the housekeeping practices (or lack thereof) on our shipping and receiving dock. When challenged by the area manager, she lead him out onto the dock, and straight to several piles of animal feces (later determined to be that of several of the local raccoons). No further disagreements ensued. :rolleyes:
 
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Craig H.

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ddhartma said:
One of our internal auditors wrote a finding against the housekeeping practices (or lack thereof) on our shipping and receiving dock. When challenged by the area manager, she lead him out onto the dock, and straight to several piles of animal feces (later determined to be that of several of the local raccoons). No further disagreements ensued. :rolleyes:

Now David, that's not the first time an audit has uncovered a pile of...oops, I mean, uh... :eek:
 
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tarheels4 - 2007

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Craig H. said:
Now David, that's not the first time an audit has uncovered a pile of...oops, I mean, uh... :eek:
After a registration audit, the staff took me out to lunch. The HR lady, who was a little chubby, went to the toilet. And when she came back she was dragging a four foot length of toilet paper. It was hanging out of her skirt.

That was the funniest thing I ever saw. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
 

Jim Wynne

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tarheels4 said:
After a registration audit, the staff took me out to lunch. The HR lady, who was a little chubby, went to the toilet. And when she came back she was dragging a four foot length of toilet paper. It was hanging out of her skirt.

That was the funniest thing I ever saw. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
Is it your belief that chubbiness and toilet paper dragging are positively correlated? If you have data, I'd like to see it, because I might be at risk:eek: .
 
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tarheels4 - 2007

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JSW05 said:
Is it your belief that chubbiness and toilet paper dragging are positively correlated? If you have data, I'd like to see it, because I might be at risk:eek: .
No, no data. It is just that the fact that she was chubby made me laugh my *** off harder.
 
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