Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> IMHO, keep that paragraph.

LOL! Thanks for the advice... I'll let you know if it leads to a 
promotion. ;-)

(Weirder things have happened.)

It's true though. On the surface, the regulations say that you have to 
actually test stuff before you go and use it, to make sure it really 
does work properly. Which, inconvenient though it is, seems perfectly 
reasonable. However, what we have hear is people make me perform a test 
purely for the "warm fuzzly feeling" you get from being able to say 
"hey, we tested something, and it worked. That's good, right? Right??"

For those of you that grok this stuff, the real problem boils down to 
the fact that I'm being asked to perform a "validation" when really it's 
a *performance qualification* that is indicated. (But we don't do those 
in the first place. But it would "look bad" if we didn't do any testing 
at all - even though none is actually necessary, it would still look 
bad.) Hence the silly testing. *sigh*

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