Woman weakens Navy subs because who needs 'stupid' specifications
(www.navytimes.com)
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If the requirement seemed stupid, she had two options:
Ask for clarification. Maybe there is some circumstance in which the steel might be exposed to such temperatures, but maybe it's just to make sure the steel you're selling them is the same as the steel they requested. It's like the idea of biting a gold coin - you don't actually care about whether you can dent the coin or not, as long as it behaves like gold and not gold-plated lead.
Declare it's not her problem. Unless the requirements are physically impossible, she could have just smiled, nodded and given the Navy what they asked for. If meeting their exacting requirements is too costly, tell your boss that he needed a higher price on the contract.
It's like Van Halen and the brown M&Ms. For context, van halen would put a rider in their safety instructions that there needed to be a bowl of M&Ms with not even one brown one left in the bowl. this was there to ensure that their safety instructions were followed to the letter, and it was safe to take the stage, but if you were setting up the event, it would probably seem pretty bizarre.
Point is, if you're under contract and the customer asks for something outrageous, you do what's asked of you. If you absolutely have to question the group/person you're under contract to, do so, but don't pull some passive agressive bullshit like this...
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon did that with the script to Good Will Hunting including a completely out of left field gay sex scene between two of the characters in the film that only one studio producer asked about showing the script had actually been read.
That producer was Harvey Weinstein however so it's not a tale that gets told often these days 🙄
must have missed that scene, but can I just ask one question?
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Where in the world are you? =P
that was probably one of the few scense he was able to jack off too, that old fuck