On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:35:12 +0000, Cynic
wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:18:28 +0000, MM wrote:
>
>>>>Not: "very little more effort", but NO extra effort, not one iota.
>>>>Zilch extra. Just do it right first time. Airline pilots have to, else
>>>>people die. Oh, and tell Cynic you agree with me, okay?
>>>
>>>Perhaps in that case you could tell me why airlines waste all that
>>>money on checking and often double checking every important action?
>>>It's surely easier to check that a door is closed than to check that
>>>the price you have put on a shelf is correct. So perhaps you could
>>>explain why *3* different people check that a commercial aircraft has
>>>all its doors closed before it leaves the stand for departure? And
>>>that's in addition to door switches that bring up a warning in the
>>>cockpit should any door be unlatched. And even with those
>>>precautions, there are occasionally (*very* occasionally) cases of
>>>aircraft taking off with an unsecured door.
>>
>>Ah, you now want me to treat seriously your comparison between
>>applying a shelf price label in a supermarket with checking the
>>aircraft doors before take-off. Yeah, riiiiigggghhhhtttt......
>
>Well, it's you who appear to believe that the same care should be
>taken for both.
No, I want the level of care to be commensurate with the
difficulty/complexity of the task. Checking over an aircraft before
taking off is orders of magnitude more complex than applying a price
label. But, anyway, you're just nit-picking now, aren't you!
>>Again, you seem to believe that applying the correct label is orders
>>of magnitude more difficult than applying the wrong label. I say that
>>the effort is exactly the same, and therefore, why not do it right?
>
>The application of the label is not the issue. Ensuring that it is
>the *correct* label is the issue. Which will *always* require some
>form of double-checking.
Don't be silly. NO double-check is needed. NONE. The price in the
computer at the till is the price the store will charge (they said so)
and therefore the price is available to any staff member (but not
shoppers) to apply to the shelves. Why do you persist in making a very
simple task appear as complex as flying an Airbus?
>I'll take a bet that if I went through all your posts, I'd find
>several of them that contained typos or other mistakes. Or will you
>claim that none of your posts contain mistakes?
Away you go! Find those typos! While you're at it, here's a hair
------ see if you can split that one, too!
MM |