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Serpentine
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22 Aug 2018, 1:38 am

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It was an issue in my work. I had a consistent quality rating of 100%, such that the QA people made a game of seeing if they could actually find a mistake in my work. It came at the cost of my productivity rating though, which was abysmal. I told them they could have it done right the first time or have angry policyholders chewing us out and make customer service fix it later, so why not take the extra time to just do it right? Alas they did not see it my way.

KestrylR, it might be be worth asking how much of a problem your perfectionism is. Maybe it's not a big deal and you don't need to worry, or perhaps it is slowing your productivity down enough to harm you. Best to know exactly what they mean by that so you can be proactive before things get difficult.


Maybe you are in the wrong country. When the US first began "outsourcing" they tried a contract with Japan for a 10,000 widgets. The contract specified that they would only accept a quality failure rate of .3%. The 10,000 parts arrived on time, along with another box and a note. "We don't quite understand what kind of defective units you want, so we made 30 various errors for the ones in this package."

Maybe you can do a spreadsheet showing that "quality is free" and that yours is the best method, but it would probably be very wise to arrange for your boss to take credit for this new advance in management.


You are right and I think that advice would be very helpful for KestrylR.

I also agree that I would fared better in a culture where quality is valued above quantity even if it takes longer.

Unfortunately it's too late for me. I finally suffered a complete mental breakdown and had to quit. I still haven't come back from it and my future prognosis is rather bleak. Thus I'm trying to convince Uncle Sam that after 20+ years of working and paying into SSI/SSDI I'm not a lazy bum and should be able to claim disability benefits. That's a big can o' worms though.


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22 Aug 2018, 1:42 am

IMHO, too many short-term thinking bosses could learn from somebody like bob carver, who said "good engineering doesn't have to cost any more than bad engineering." IOW good work doesn't have to cost more than mediocre work.



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22 Aug 2018, 2:51 am

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22 Aug 2018, 3:20 am

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When the US first began "outsourcing" they tried a contract with Japan for a 10,000 widgets. The contract specified that they would only accept a quality failure rate of .3%. The 10,000 parts arrived on time, along with another box and a note. "We don't quite understand what kind of defective units you want, so we made 30 various errors for the ones in this package."

I live and work in Japan as an architect. There's certainly a different attitude here, perfectionism is more accepted although deadlines always have to be met.

I got the infamous "please try to speed up a bit" while making a physical model in the first few months of my job. I did, but didn't want to sacrifice quality so I ended up working both early mornings and late nights making a huge model with corners so tight a laser cutter couldn't have done it better. The boss looked at it once, said "nice", and a few months later put me in charge of a 400,000 sq. ft. office building.



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23 Aug 2018, 10:50 am

Right now, I work in a store, but I want to study IT and get a job doing that someday.


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02 Oct 2018, 4:17 am

KestrylR wrote:
Engineering data analyst - they actually pay me to play around in spreadsheets all day, looking for patterns!

On my last performance review, though, my new manager said I was "too much of a perfectionist", like that's a *bad* thing somehow!


I can relate to being told about being too much of a perfectionist. I have had managers tell me the same thing in almost every job I have had. Especially in car detailing, being told I have gone over the top and the little details I have worked on like polishing up the badges, removing and cleaning behind the wheels are unnecessary. I don't get how they can complain when the car looked perfect and a nice shiny car = nothing for the customer to complain about.