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Thread ID: 123695	2012-03-11 23:33:00	A thread to see how people explain tasks - all good clean fun	wainuitech (129)	PC World Chat

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1264406	2012-03-12 01:17:00	Would someone like to explain how to pull a hot woman that doesn't have head issues, in fact any woman without head issues.	plod (107)
1264407	2012-03-12 01:20:00	Would someone like to explain how to pull a hot woman that doesn't have head issues, in fact any woman without head issues. They don't exist	gary67 (56)
1264408	2012-03-12 01:26:00	^ ... ain't THAT the truth !!!	SP8's (9836)
1264409	2012-03-12 01:47:00	I like this! I also have no doubt that I'll mess up somehow... but here goes :). [/list]What did I miss?:clap Give than man the choc fish Prize -- Well done, obviously someone who knows how to give instructions. :thumbs: The "trick" many people fail to put in are things that would be taken for granted. Example: The cup - How many would have written "The open end of the cup should be facing directly upwards" Obvious to anyone who knows. Tooth paste - "12.Pick up the toothpaste tube with one hand, with the cap facing upwards." "15.Pick up the toothbrush, holding it by the end that lacks bristles." 17.Hold the toothbrush horizontally, with the tips of the bristles facing upwards. 18.Move the toothpaste so that the hole at the top of the cap is pointed at the top of the bristles, and positioned a few mm away from them. 19.Gently squeeze the toothpaste until an amount of toothpaste approximately one cubic centimetre in size is dispensed onto the bristles. And so on -- simple enough things, but do it wrong and you could have water and toothpaste everywhere. (this happened) some people wrote pick up toothbrush and squeeze toothpaste -- well picked up by bristles and the whole tube squeezed onto their hand as it was facing upwards. The whole lesson was about giving instructions. Often I write out instructions for doing certain tasks that I give to my customers -- I get SWMBO to do them first, and I watch to make sure she does only whats written, then edit to make it right if anything is wrong or I have taken a step for granted.	wainuitech (129)
1264410	2012-03-12 02:42:00	Then instructions may need meet best practice (if you can define it, e.g. ISO 9000 quality documentation procedures was a common starting point, and/or a related agency - dunno for software test processes), which may involve auditing - internal and external. When I wrote lab procedures for a lab manual, lab operators may come up with better procedures. Then any changes they suggested had to be documented in another manual(s), e.g. health and safety, quailty, and policy manuals. Then sometimes new instructions had to be verified by testing internally and externally by round robin (www.statisticalengineering.com) testing. Nuisance at times.This had to be done as part of a quality trail for certification agencies, e.g. Telarc. (www.telarc.co.nz/) Also some staff requested previous procedures for comparison if had to revert back to lesser used apparatus. Had one staff member who constantly rewrote tasks over 10 years for the manufacturing sector processes. And other 5 or so staff all updating policies and other procedures. Instructions also benefited if their was an overview, goal, or concepts written before the actual instructions. This sort of helped to understand why/what was going on, important if you had to explain to clients (or senior management), and for training purposes.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1264411	2012-03-12 02:52:00	Instructions like that may be considered insulting by some ... :devil	fred_fish (15241)
1264412	2012-03-12 03:08:00	Wow Erayd!	wratterus (105)
1264413	2012-03-12 03:21:00	Would someone like to explain how to pull a hot woman that doesn't have head issues, in fact any woman without head issues. I haven't got the time.:devil	mikebartnz (21)
1264414	2012-03-12 03:22:00	Often I write out instructions for doing certain tasks that I give to my customers -- I get SWMBO to do them first, and I watch to make sure she does only whats written, then edit to make it right if anything is wrong or I have taken a step for granted. You are to be commended for that.:thumbs:	mikebartnz (21)
1264415	2012-03-12 04:21:00	I do this every day at work. Someone rings up and says X is happening, we say do Y. and then have to explain it step by step. Or they want to know how to do x, never mind the knowledgebase - they can't follow it..... Colleague was taking the guy through FTP the other day, and after 35 minutes the guy said I've just lost all my desktop icons!! LOL.......and on to a bit of generic tech support before he could get back to the FTP... I don't mind the new ones, it's the snotty developers or resellers who are so busy telling you about their years of experience and how much they know and it's just the fault of our stupid interface....to actually listen.	pctek (84)
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