rfenst wrote:Do they teach you in writing class(es) to submit your report in a binder/folder to make a better impression? I had to do this in one business writing class and have only used black since then. For real. I had to take a college class to learn this.
Nah, all this is on-line so no physical papers are used but things have things have to be submitted in specific files (.doc, .pdf, and so on). Written reports are to be submitted in APA format unless otherwise specified or with one of their accepted templates.
One weird thing (not related to my current endeavor and off topic) that's been beaten into me and has become second nature/habit from years of doing stuff in a previous life:
- No red ink can be used on any controlled documents unless used for red-lining a document, red pens are outlawed on the manufacturing floor. Red lined documentation has to include a citation or reference to an in-process ECO or ECR (Engineering Control Order, Engineering Control Request).
- No black ink to be used on any controlled document, only blue (attempts to differentiate between original and photocopies).
- Any handwritten entries or notes have to be initialed and dated - your handwritten initials are logged and controlled by the document control and regulatory departments as part of the orientation when you first start the job.
- Only ball point pens, no felt tip, no gel ink or anything that might bleed or smudge. This was mostly due to working in a clean room environment to help prevent contamination which was odd since we had ink jet printers and ink stamps in various areas (shrug).
Last place I worked (Teleflex), the overall mothership was located in Ireland so preferred date format had to be in 4 digit year-two digit month-two digit day (example 2018-01-15) since this is how the Europeans do their dates and a "-" instead of a "/". I've had stuff kicked back to me because I did it 1/15/18 which was not acceptable, it's not in European format and the "/" can be mistaken as a "1" or an "l". F#ckin bureaucrats.
This made me appreciate and understand why it costs so much for a Department of Defense approved hammer and why it costs so much to get FDA approvals. If I never have to work under FDA regulations, I'll be 100% O.K. with that. Wayyyyy lots of paperwork for even the smallest insignificant change in something but I understand why - the stuff that we were making will eventually end up in a human body and if something went wrong, someone is going to come looking to find out who signed off on what and why.