Oh, BOY! Have I been there. I've inspected parts for Navy nuclear reactors. Talk about a paper trail - all the way back to the ground the ore was dug from. It's not uncommon for a simple item to have 2" of paper in the official inspection package.
This is needful because of the hundreds of lives and the two billion dollar submarine are dependent on each critical part.
Grief is not what you get when you work from the wrong drawing - it's more like crusifixion. If you don't have your ducks in Euclidean line and all your I's dotted and T's crossed you will be shredded.
You get to go to meetings that last for hours where your every action is explored by your technical inferiors and you get to respond to polite questions wrapped in barbed wire from some self-important pipe insulator (long hungry for power and postion) who clawed his way into the Nuclear Power heirarchy over the backs of others. For example: "So Mr Addy, when did you first notice the class five thread major diameter was machined on BOTH ends of the studs? - Ah! AFTER the discrepancy report hit your desk, thank you." Then he'd drone on like a prosecutor to further armor his case.
All you can do is wait as your tormentor thoroughly and inescapeably commits himself. Then you rouse: "Gentlemen, I don't understand the purpose of this meeting. Why am I here?"
"Because Mr Addy, eleven of the studs you passed as acceptable were in fact machined to an incorrect major diameter."
"That's my point. They weren't. If you look at Nuclear Power Manual para X, note Y, and the BRMO memo #umpty-ump, you'll see a reference authorizing the paragraph in the NPEI waiving the major diameter tolerence on the nut end of eleven studs to accommodate an existing mechanical interferance problem noted ref Z, ect, etc and changing it to the major diameter to which they were actually machined in accordance to the revs listed.
"The subject altered studs were clearly marked and separately packaged in accordance to note 6 and 7. In the inspection report a note was entered in the 'remarks' with a reference to the NPEI paragraph under which the exception was specified. I see you haven't referenced this in the Lessons Learned agenda under which this meeting was convened."
In the following silence a dropped pin sounds like a train wreck. Crow feathers fly as the former tormentor re-spins his position and exercises damage control. Administrators and major players mentally re-evaluate their minion as to his ability to work under loose supervision. Said minion will spend months doing gruntwork plotting revenge. At least one of his supervisors will catch up to say to me he was very sorry and that a mistake was made and the meeting minutes will show no negligence or fault on my part.
Sometime later, at least one senior supervisor in my shop will call me to his office: "Dammit Addy, next time call somebody before things get this far. We can't afford to waste time in chaired meetings playing someone else's silly power games." Of course I'd look at him in astounded innocence. The supervisor not fooled for an instant gives me a disgusted look and growls "Get the hell back to work".
Things can go the other way and disasterously but naturally I'm not telling any stories where I wound up behind the 8 ball thanks to my own stupidity.