Have you ever been in this situation? It’s late at night, you’re working overtime, and suddenly your manager drops a pile of expired components or badly out-of-spec parts on your desk and says, “The customer needs this shipped urgently—just sign a waiver and go home!” Have you ever faced that moment? And after you sign the waiver, if something goes wrong, who actually takes the blame?
Workingbear remembers when he first entered the electronics industry as a junior product or process engineer. The first time colleagues from Quality and Production asked him to “waive” a product, He just froze on the spot. He had no idea what they were talking about—and even got laughed at by the line supervisor.
