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Unimogbert Last edited by unimogbert; 03-07-2023 at 09:58 PM. |
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"Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't figured out how to ask." - Mulder |
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"I think it applies to state employees in Massachusetts."
I'd move. (But keep your car registered there.....) |
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We now live in an "I got this" era...
kinda glad I'm getting older... Hey, where's my participation trophy? |
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Where on earh did your hear that? I can't imagine where you got that impression.
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Phil Playing guitar badly since 1964. Some Taylor guitars. Three Kala ukuleles (one on tour with the Box Tops). A 1937 A-style mandolin. |
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Wow seven pages of whining and moaning - perhaps we should have a "Curmudgeon" section ?
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Silly Moustache, Just an old Limey acoustic guitarist, Dobrolist, mandolier and singer. I'm here to try to help and advise and I offer one to one lessons/meetings/mentoring via Zoom! |
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To reflect on the original question "Is Everybody Incompetent", I would say we all are at one time or another, by virtue of the fact that we are all human. It is most unfortunate when somebody messes up and it affects us personally (such as a guitar getting broken during shipping, an appliance install, etc.).
I can say that since getting into software engineering, every company I worked for, and every group I worked in, I never met a "slacker" in the group and everybody seemed to me extremely intelligent and intensely focused on their work. That could be intimidating at times. Contrast that to when I worked for the city of Los Angeles during summer when I was in high school and the overall sense, at least in the group I was in, seemed to just be putting in their time with as little effort as possible. I saw that in other "blue collar" jobs I had too, prior to getting into engineering. I also saw people who did care about the quality of their work in these situations, but they seemed to be the minority. I suspect that work that required true skilled craftsmanship would be different, but these were not jobs that I had, so I wouldn't have readily seen that. Tony
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Competence, or its lack, can be a two-edged sword. I've lived in cultures that were seriously incompetent whose people had their priorities elsewhere - family, having fun, socializing, leisure time - and such people were often very happy. I've also lived in cultures that were seriously competent, and their citizens were often stressed, stifled, obedient, and self-denying.
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And another customer disservice example...
I have many Ryobi One+ tools:
Ryobi had a design/manufacturing defect leading to a safety recall. They took my working charger away and replaced it with a new/different one. That one broke. I called them and they saiud "sorry that replacement unit only has a 90 day warranty" OK, their argument is that they replaced my out-of-warranty unit with one with another 90 days of warranty and the old one might have failed by now anyway. My argument is that I'm an excellent repeat customer and gave them lots of revenue. I had a working charger. They replaced it because of their own mistake. Now I don't have a working charger. The person I talked to had zero interest in helping me, even though I was very courteous to her. This is crappy customer service and makes me highly argue against ever recommending their company or products ever.
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Why do we expect competence from everyone when evidence abounds that we all have different capabilities for learning.
The more important thing I'd like to see is removing the stigma associated with admitting to an error , accepting that we're human and liable to make a mistake, and committing to a willingness to look at ways to do things differently that will prevent an error. You can't learn to make good decisions without making one or more bad decisions first. Somewhere we stopped letting our kids fail, and they're growing up without the ability to fall and get back up and try again.
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If you turn off avatars and signatures it's only 4 pages at 30 replies per page... You old curmudgeon. ,
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Bah!! I can't be bothered with all this technology!
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I think it is always good to keep in mind what I heard the autistic Temple Grandin say in an interview. She pointed out that while we might think the engineers who designed the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant were stupid for placing the backup generators in the basement where they were vulnerable to flooding, they were smarter than most of us when it comes to designing an electricity generating plant powered by a nuclear reactor that functioned for 40 years with an annual output of 29,891 GWh.
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