Comments on: Want Someone to Take a Decision Seriously? Hand Them Something Heavy

By: Laurence Hartshorne

Laurence Hartshorne — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:12:30 +0000

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

By: bigjohn756

bigjohn756 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:30:14 +0000

Many years ago(mid 1980s) the manufacturing plant where I worked instituted a policy to avoid a common problem. Periodically, a tank inside the plant was refilled by a tanker truck. There were no level controls in the tank being filled. If the employee in charge of notifing the tanker to stop pumping got busy and failed to stop the operation then the plant would be inundated with material. This would require hours of clean-up. After a while someone had the brilliant idea to hand the employee a 4″ steel hex nut to hold in his right hand until the pumps were shut off. There were no more floods after that policy was implemented.

By: Gregg Swanson

Gregg Swanson — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:52:13 +0000

Great info! Especially when working with clients. I guess I should have them sit in a Lazy Boy :-)