4477-8 - I agree with both youall's posts.
The colombia f*up was not caused by this QC guy, or probably any other one, except that the slipshod attitude and performance was 'tolerated'.
However, I saw far too many 'pencil whipped' QC reports filled out in break rooms, and when I brought it up, I was told to keep my mouth shut, 'It's not your job". I expected some serious foul ups, but thank goodness for the excellent Techs/Mechanics, who did/do excellent work with/without QC.
Does anybody have a copy of, or link to, the photo taken in San Francisco of the "purple-corkscrew-lightning-bolt" thing?
I haven't seen it yet, I thought it was going to be available after NASA, et al. had gotten a chance to examine it first.