deird_lj

Advice to people who write reports:

- Do not abbreviate uncommon words, especially if the abbreviation is hard to interpret.
Example: "12 lflinks on RCE, u/s, d/l"

- Do not feel obligated to write common words out in full, especially if you then need to abbreviate uncommon words to make the whole sentence fit.
Example: "12 lflinks on RCE, u/s, d/l, platform 1 to platform 3 and platforms 9 and 10"

- If you put several items into different categories in one report, when you write the follow-up report, do not swap the items randomly between categories.

- In this follow-up report, do not change the NAMES of the items randomly.

- Equally, do not split one item into five new items, or combine several different items into one mega-item.

- Definitely do not combine 17 different items from 5 different categories, and put them under an unrelated name in a new category.

- If you are giving someone several very similar reports on a closely-related topic,

and if all the reports contain an incredibly large table full of lots of different numbers,

and if the reports have a summary sheet at the front, containing (among other things) the Most Significant Number from the table,

DO NOT put the "Total Budget WITH Insurance Costs Added On" as the Most Significant Number on SOME summary sheets, and put the "Total Budget WITHOUT Anything Added On" as the Most Significant Number on OTHER summary sheets, AND THEN PRETEND THAT YOU'RE QUOTING THE EXACT SAME NUMBER IN EVERY REPORT!!!!!

I've had a frustrating morning.