Moral of the story - have your work proof read by some-one else before you send it - that extra couple of hours can save you weeks. (The double full stop should have been picked up by a green wavy line in word. If not using word, then it is good practice to write in word first then cut and paste into other formats).

(Must check this before I send it tho')!

I'd go a bit deeper than that, Wensleydale...

How about too many people talking a good job, and not enough people getting things done?

After my little incident, I became a desk jonny. I was resonably well motivated & competent, but the work was piling on to me, they were whipping the willing horse.

Simple prioritisation degenerated into a system of work avoidance. What could I do to postpone one job so that I could concentrate on a more important one. Bung an e mail back asking for more info? Job done.

The IPT, almost without fail, issued STI's, RTI's & UTI's on a Friday. I suspect that the reason for this was that they spent all week having meetings, and had to make it someone else's problem by the weekend. .

Thanks for that Wensleydale. I do hope your tongue was firmly in cheek.

The real moral of the story is MoD is chock full of over-promoted plonkers who have nothing better to do than fart about looking for such major howlers. The guy who spotted it prefaced his comments with "As I don't understand the technical spec...I suppose I better comment on something". In which case, why is he employed to scrutinise a technical spec? And why did I need to write a spec in the first place? Because the system doesn't allow DEC to specify a requirement; URDs are so woolly that, if contracted, the deliverable could meet the endorsed requirement but be incapable of being put to its intended use.

In the example I quoted, the main issue was military personnel were dying due to lack of a solution. It is simply not acceptable for MoD to employ anyone, at any grade, who adopts the stance taken. Something I hope everyone here would agree with.

Tuc,

Not just the MOD :ok:

Great Event!
 

Congratulations to the organisers and participants at the Dinner last night. Excellent speeches and a wide spread of guests (including crewmen and engineers!) made it a truly memorable event.

Chinook rules OK.

Er, wrong thread maybe?? Hangover??

Celebrating SFFP's departure?

that might have needed Shackleton fins to be resurrected.

Did the Shackleton die for our sins?

I actually replied to the right thread but, like a number of posters have reported, the reply appeared in a totally different one.

I do like a bit of irony
 

Hello Wensleydale, having reviewed your post may I make the following suggestions; a, take the hyphen out of 'someone' and b, place the full stop of a sentence entirely enclosed within brackets within the brackets. (I know people take the Mick out of grammar police but I thought a bit of constructive comment in this case would be appropriate if not appreciated!)