Re: [Futurework] REAL-TIME FIELD OBSERVATION

[Brad McCormick, Ed.D.]

I'm too young to know this first-hand.  But IBM folk-lore
has it that there were very clear instructions to the
field engineers (AKA repairmen).  I paraphrase
interpretively from memory:
    This machine is made to fit together without
    any part being forced.  If you find you have to force
    a part to make it fit, something is wrong.  Stop
    immediately and find out what the problem is.
    When the problem is resolved, the parts will go together
    without having to force anything.
Is this really utopian?

\brad mccormick



Ed Weick wrote:

It needs cooperation.  Whenever I try to assemble anything, my wife takes
the instructions (even before I can give them to her) and with something of
an air of arrogance takes me through it step by step.  It may be an example
of women think, men do.
Ed Weick

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Ever try to assemble a barbecue???

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I never understood why "dads" feel such
fulfillment in having children, until
about an hour ago.  (No sh-t!)
My wife brought home the needs-adult-assembly
tricycle from hell.
[snip]

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              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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