[BITList] Idiocy

[HUGH]

Today's Herald has a piece on the cost overrun of the yet to be completed aircraft carriers HM Govt caused to be built some years ago. For those not up to scratch with them, they were built all over the place (in the UK), and the various sections were wheeled to a place of final assembly and welded together.

One factor mentioned by the Herald as contributing both to delays and cost overruns was the habit of they who must be obeyed demanding hasty costings for sudden changes in requirements, eg, let's have a different type of plane, so give me a figure for the modifications by tomorrow at 3.00.  The problem with this type of shit is that the actual work on such a matter would be made by the person investigating the changes, and by nobody else (I've been there myself a few times), and it could easily be that the news about the need for changes would not reach the drawing board until 4.30 on the day after next Tuesday, always supposing it wasn't raining.  There might then be a week of assessment and measuring, and acquiring information nobody else thought necessary.  The result might easily be that the top brass's bum's were out the window, and they needed to be told that fast and with words of one syllable. The trouble is, few if any of those presently employed are capable of calling a spade a spade and resisting the dreams of ignoramuses, and the result is as above.

Hugh.
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