Have you ever complained to a company re the instructions.

[Guest]

Local papers are written by people with no idea of real life either.

Not just local papers. It’s my observation that journalists in general have one main skill: being journalists. That means no real, or even superficial, understanding of the subjects they cover, which shines through very obviously any time they do a piece (written, televised, whatever) about something outside of general knowledge.

[Tim Marlow]

Not just local papers. It’s my observation that journalists in general have one main skill: being journalists. That means no real, or even superficial, understanding of the subjects they cover, which shines through very obviously any time they do a piece (written, televised, whatever) about something outside of general knowledge.

To be fair to them, they rarely get the time to fully understand anything these days. They simply write about what they are told to, when they are told to. Like most people, they can only have superficial knowledge of most subjects.

[outrunner]

Dodgy instructions are not rare but annoying making you take time to study them and figure things out, what really bothers me is badly fitting parts.
Perhaps they should write a PS to the instructions stating "some parts may need a bit of fettling to fit, but I am sure you will manage". :smiling5:



Andy.

[Guest]

They simply write about what they are told to, when they are told to.

Of course. And it’s only really apparent when you do have specialist knowledge. But it gets slightly annoying when you see things misrepresented when you did explain correctly

[Mini Me]

I had this problem with 1:1 scale Aircraft blueprints........sometimes costing the Company I worked for thousands of dollars in lost material and labor before the "sins" of the engineering department were discovered:rolling: Rick H.