UPS vs. USPS

[MikeBjerum]

Talent.  Real Talent. 

Make things idiot proof and the world will just produce better idiots.

I had a friend who was an electrician, and owned his own company.  He worked hard to grow from zero, to a full-time one-man shop, to eventually working in the office or doing repairs on items customers brought to his shop while his three two-man teams did the major work.  He would see something like this "indestructible case" being damaged, shake his head, and say "you could take a one inch by one inch by one inch cube of pure stainless steel, give it to the public, and they would ruin it the first day."

[PegLeg45]

I had a friend who was an electrician, and owned his own company.  He worked hard to grow from zero, to a full-time one-man shop, to eventually working in the office or doing repairs on items customers brought to his shop while his three two-man teams did the major work.  He would see something like this "indestructible case" being damaged, shake his head, and say "you could take a one inch by one inch by one inch cube of pure stainless steel, give it to the public, and they would ruin it the first day."

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Our saying about folks at the plant where I worked as, "That idiot could split an anvil with a rubber hammer."

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I try to make it so it takes a special kind of idiot to screw things up....


The shit i have to do at work would just make you shake your head.

[Big Frank]

There are people you only have to watch and listen to for a very short time before the thought crosses your mind, you're a special kind of stupid aren't you? I used to work with one of those guys. There was another guy, "Powerhouse Pete" who got a hand amputated in the Small Press department. All he was left with was a small lobster claw for a hand. Both phalanges of his thumb were gone, but surgeons separated the metacarpal bone from the <half of a hand he had left and made a claw out of it. One day Pete was telling me about this guy who was incredibly stupid, so stupid that he made people mad at him all the time. Pete called him stupid, idiot, retard, or whatever, and the idiot said, well at least I wasn't dumb enough to get my hand cut off. Pete was lucky enough to not have a problem with his stump being too sensitive, so he grabbed the retard by his shirt collar with his good hand and beat the crap out of with his stump. I LOL'd when he told me about that. Later on I was working with that dummy and he peed me off so bad I wanted to jump over the conveyor and beat the crap out of him too. And it would have been with a very large fist, not just a piece of a hand. When they implemented the Team Concept at our plant, everyone that worked on that guy's line elected him Team Leader, so he wouldn't be working on the line with them. It takes a special kind of stupid to alienate every single one of your co-workers. Luckily I was on another line and no longer had to deal with him.

And my package still hasn't made any progress in 10 days. The US Postal Service puts the "special" in every delivery. Their new slogan could be: Let us put Special in your delivery!