Incidentally, although I changed names many of the characters, as grossly exaggerated as they seem, are as true as a photograph. I worked for a quality director who had AADD so badly it was a wonder he could find the building in the morning. And the event described where he took a screwdriver to a multi-million dollar unit that had just passed acceptance and been sold off really happened. He was on the payroll because he’d sign ANYTHING.
The bribery situation is a composite of several similar ones as the company (now out of business) had elastic ethics. There was an entire floor of offices with brass plaques reading something like “General John Jones Special Consultant.” They had wet bars, built in polished wood shelving and they’d never, to my knowledge, been visited by their “occupants.” Those men were on the payroll but never showed up at work as they’d already done their “service.”
I really did buy a bunch of assembled equipment as “repair parts” to keep my department functioning. As I passed the buyer nursing a coffee cup in the cafeteria, without looking up and just loud enough for me to hear he said, “I’m not a f*cking idiot, Bern. I know what you did.” I stopped and without looking down said, “Then why didn’t you kick it back?” He said, “Somebody’s got to make the d*mned place work.”
And, let’s not even talk about the government’s quality rep. Yikes.
What word processing program do you use to write your books and do you create your own Kindle books and upload yourself or do you hire it done?