That's something I gotta ask on my way to my next job. My company is extremely conservative in every meaning of the word, and is not unlike patio11's description of Japanese megacorps in mannerisms.
"What happened the last time production went down?" should produce a quite illuminating answer. Do they go through a detailed root-cause analysis? Do they answer with marketing-speak meant for a legally minimal disclosure? Do they blame "that moron" whom I'm meant to replace?
As it stands here, the official corporate policy is everything happens perfectly until someone who shouldn't be there messes things up, and the problem is best solved with a public and angry firing letter. Quoth our business partner: "We're allowed to change our minds, but you're not allowed to be in error. Even if we give you bad data, you're expected to infer proper data and give us proper output. BTW we're not paying for testing"
"What happened the last time production went down?" should produce a quite illuminating answer. Do they go through a detailed root-cause analysis? Do they answer with marketing-speak meant for a legally minimal disclosure? Do they blame "that moron" whom I'm meant to replace?
As it stands here, the official corporate policy is everything happens perfectly until someone who shouldn't be there messes things up, and the problem is best solved with a public and angry firing letter. Quoth our business partner: "We're allowed to change our minds, but you're not allowed to be in error. Even if we give you bad data, you're expected to infer proper data and give us proper output. BTW we're not paying for testing"