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I once worked for a national that had such bad QA, sm

Posted By: CL on 2005-07-19
In Reply to: white line of Toldt - Need to know

that I emailed the supervisor requesting that any document of mine that QA made "alterations," that that QA person's initials be placed alongside mine on the report.  Hopefully, I made my point.


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