It’s time for reading up on policies at work. Part of some certification or other.

So there’s apparently this “known by everyone” rule about dates. When you have to get back and read the policy again. But this is apparently a very complicated thing to communicate, so I’m betting on yearly and hoping it will not decertify us or some similar shit.

Then for the policy itself.

My boss: It is important to remember that it is not a matter of learning all the policies etc. by heart, essentially it is a matter of having a general knowledge of what parts they contain and above all knowing where the information can be found.

My autistic brain: So I don’t have to follow the policies? I mean, if I don’t have to know them, surely I can’t follow them.

But that can’t be right. Why would anyone spend hours and days to produce hundreds upon hundreds of pages of policies if they’re useless?

Maybe it’s just to make the certification people happy?

That doesn’t sound right either…

So, they’re all just signing off on the policies and hoping not to get caught knowing jack about them?

Or maybe they figure if they get caught, they’ll be able to land on their feet anyway?

Ok, I’ve decided I’m not a land-on-your-feet-type of person decades ago. I’m more of a hold-on-for-dear-life-type of person.

So why downplay the policy?

Because I shouldn’t spend a week reading policies.

For one, it becomes hard to explain to the customers what I did, since the time should be invoiced.

Which isn’t as strange as it sounds.

If I wasn’t working with customer projects on a certified company, I would for sure not be sitting around reading policies. It’s part of the work. I get that. (And yeah, it’ll be fun to try to squeeze it in edgewise).

No, the message here is… take no time to read hundreds of pages. Don’t break any of the rules.

There’s always the weekend, right?

And, maybe you already guessed it? The policies are of course shock full of “the employee must” and “the employee is responsible” so yeah…

Gotta love the NT-way of doing shit.