In technical writing, a procedure is a series of steps that you do to complete a task. Your people are crazy, Sophia.

Yes, this. If they don't want to call it a policy (and refusing to call it a policy, when it so clearly is, is just silly), maybe they'd be okay calling it a statement? Refund Statement?

We are now being told that we cannot call it a policy, we have to call it a procedure (which to me is the entirely wrong word for a one sentance rule).

The reason is that it has not been voted on by the faculty. That is, we are welcome to do it, but we have to publish it in our brochures as a procedure, not a policy.

Can't they just get the faculty to vote on it?

I suspect the ubiquity of sections of handbooks labelled "Policies and Procedures" has confused people into thinking they are more alike than they are.

Oh- the faculty think it is not important enough to vote on!!! Therefore not important enough to be a policy!!!

I say that it is a Division Policy as determined by our Associate Dean, rather than a School Policy, voted on by the school faculty. AND, believe it or not, it is actually (I know from my last job) a University Policy that non-credit classes recieve no refunds.

But, I am chronically unable to let things like this go without being annoyed, even when the person who is telling me this is my boss's boss's boss-- the Dean. I actually dislike this about myself-- the inability to note an unimportant issue's complete stupidity and move on.

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:Raises eyebrow: Having once been a Bronzer, I view all such invites with suspicion. I suspect it is some WRONG person’s attempt to deny the RIGHTness of the ALIVEness of the BBS.

Annual performance review review (yes, that is deliberate) over and it was fine (though I really laugh too much as a filler ) and I have exciting news: we're all getting new titles! Except....none of them fit me. None of the descriptions match the odd combination of work I do either. So I'm currently titleless. I'm kinda proud.

yay new title!

(although I first read that you are currently titless)

Protocol, perhaps?

... I fail to understand why a scientist should need to take four paragraphs to explain why a telescope building has to be white. With charts. In full-color. @@

The thing is, if we can't call it a policy because it hasn't been voted on by faculty, isn't there a better synonym for the word policy than the word procedure? Like, rule.

Around here, we issue a lot of "Guidance."

Around here, we issue a lot of "Guidance."

"God's will"?