Falsify official test results.
“You gotta certify this periscope for install.”
“No, I have to INSPECT the periscope for install. It failed.”
“I am giving you an ORDER, here. You WILL certify this periscope for install! That submarine has to get underway tomorrow! It’ll take a week to get another one down here!”
“The periscope failed inspection. Here, here, and here. The gouges are too deep, as I measured them.”
“(insert expletive here), I’m giving you a direct order! Sign off on the inspection!”
“Put the order in writing, then. I’ll sign off as it being by direction, but I need the paperwork.”
And he did. I tucked the paperwork into the folder, and saluted. “I’ll take care of it, sir.” and walked out. 20 minutes later, I was before the Task Group Commander, showing him the uncompleted paperwork and the written order. My problem child was in the brig awaiting a courts martial before the sun went down.
Every step requiring a QA sign-off is present because someone died, something failed catastrophically, or the ship sank. Every. Single. One. Asking me to falsify test results is putting a gun to your head and telling me to pull the trigger. I may not pull it, but cell or bodybag, you are not ever going to be a problem for me again.
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