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Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat May 16 23:45:42 2015, in response to Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat May 16 17:56:09 2015. While I would generally agree, the real problem these days is that all managers seem to know about what they manage is metrics and spreadsheets and have no idea whatsoever about the widgets they're counting. When a problem crops up, the autonomic response is almost a reverse kind of intellectualism based on "really smart (unidentified) people came up with this and it's been proven again and again that ramming your head into a wall really works in motivation."I'm serious here. When something is broken, the LAST thing you want to do is get any of these pinheads involved in it. Unless you need money to fix it. Then the "justification" horror show begins in earnest where a simple repair turns into a multiyear project that requires study groups and funding that will never get approved. All for the want of a replacement turnbuckle. ("Huh? What's a turnbuckle? Don't be getting all technical on me, I asked a simple question. Why is our throughput down by 0.4%? Somebody isn't doing their job and I intend to find them.") Older folks will fix things, younger folks want to break the bank to buy all new. And then they wonder why things are broken. :( |
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