World's Funniest Audit Experiences

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QAGirly

Ok. I'm laughing my butt off over here!!!

I have a ton of stories, but my favorite is:

We were ISO 9001 registered and we had the best auditor (for any audit team), lacking for any company who wanted to grow....Anyhow, I was Lead Auditor and my team of 9, along with the Director of Quality and all the big wigs are in the pre audit conference meeting. In walks dear old Mr. ______.....Zipper down, sweater on backwards and INSIDE out.

I had to put my head down like I was tying my shoes. How is one to remain calm and collected when THIS is your auditor? I thought I was going to die. I still find that hysterical. Needless to say, I had to tell him his zipper was down and his sweater issue....But we only got one observation that entire audit! :sarcasm: LOL Looked good for me, but like I said, the company needed a real auditor to kick butt and write some NC's! Ahhhh.....

:magic:
 
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lamorenita_QA

Went through our ISO re-certification audit, i use reading glasses for close distance reading, but was not wearing my glasses when the
Auditor asked to see a scheduled training session, I opened up my training dbase program and displayed the scheduled training class, apparently he needs glasses too, because we bothed reviewed and confirmed compliance to the wrong scheduled training class!! Ha-Ha, I didn't find out until he left and I put my glasses on!!:notme: :lol:
 

NikkiQSM

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One audit that still holds a spot in my mind is when it was conducted by one of our customers. The auditor, a very nice woman, softly spoke during the opening meeting. She explained why they were here, what they were going to do, and all the normal yadda-yadda that happens during an opening meeting.

We all sat quietly listening to each and every word. Suddenly, she must have found something that was funny, because she let out this incredibly loud piercing laugh. It was so loud and unexpected I jumped and almost fell out of my chair.

My Director of Quality did all he could not to laugh at me.
 
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QuaProQuo

Hi Kevin:

Just out of curious...what industry was this audit for? I'm in MedDev, and they'd probably take my fingers off if I used Wite-Out Anything!
 
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gbcqc

My favorite is when a guy from our plant had to go to a customer and sort parts. After he was finished, he and the Customer's Director of Quality called our plant to see if that was all the parts. They were told yes, but there was a truck on the way with parts that had not been sorted :bonk:. My friend was released and came home to get a call at home saying more nonconforming parts showed up after he left. He runs to the airport and buys a ticket back to the customer.

He said he walked into the Dir. of Quality's office:bigwave:. The man never look up. All he said was "People at XXX company should never reproduce" and that was his sign to go sort those parts. We laughed about that for the longest time.
 
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