Safety, law and disorder

As I mentioned before for many, many times, I'm doing quality control. Now, if your country is something more visible on map than Tuvalu, it's bound to have certification requirements for all things electrical. If it does not... well, consider emigration to somewhere where government at least tries to impose some safety requirements on the stuff. But I digress (as usual).

Maybe some years before they would be happy if the samples provided for certification won't short-circuit on you, but now it's much more complicated.You have to send the samples still, but they'll also send people to the factory that produced them. And woe befall those who try to cheat the system...

And now the time has come for me to have my (unfair, if you ask me) share of this. Day after tomorrow the Earth will freeze... no, wait... two guys from Belorussia certification authority will come to see whether two of our partners are good enough (in terms of quality control) to supply their products to their country.

Now, I know that they're good (the factories, I mean). And our boss knows it. And even those guys know it. But all the same I'll have to go through the motions and waste a week or so of my time kowtowing to them instead of doing real work...