I went to the jiffy oil change place after work today.
No line! Oh, boy! This must be a time when few persons come to get their oil changed....
Wrong!
The attendant says he'll have to see if he has my size oil filter in stock, because they are out of a lot of filter sizes -- he says he hopes thay will ahve more tomorrow.
Well, they do have my filter size, and I'm in and out of the empty place in record time.
But the vehicle that pulled in right behind me got sent away because they did *not* have that vehicle's filter in stock.
The clerk said this never used to happen. I asked if the company was trying to reduce inventory -->
So there you have it, folks!
It never really struck me before that:
"Just in time" inventory devolution (aka progress)
is just another form of:
RUNNING ON EMPTY
As George Steiner said about the traitor Sir Anthony Blunt: Damn them! [I don't have the names to substitute here for the unbound variable "them", sorry]
I imagine a world in which one of the luxuries the society allows itself (even if this would mean that junk bond wheeler-dealers might not be able to make as many zillions in killings, etc....) would be to keep inventories stocked -- a society that would afford the luxury of acting on the principle that:
Better safe than sorry!
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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