On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:16:42 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:


"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
Today it is beef....tomorrow toys...the next day...well something
else...fasteners, tires, tools?

It would seem that lack of quality control has just cost this company
its existence and its employees their livelihoods.

Should a company be responsible for its own quality control or is it a
responsibility of government to protect us?

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks

TMT


Any business is like a barn with nothing but doors instead of walls. It's
hard to make sure they are all closed. Yes, quality needs to be primary and
take full focus. But, something can ALWAYS go wrong, even with the best
efforts of management. It just happens! I KNOW this first hand. Maybe
there should be an insurance available to prevent the demise of a company.

Would you accept this attitude from your heart surgeon or your grocer?
"**** happens" is not an acceptable position for management to take.
It's a copout. Injuring customers is bad bidness. Management must
focus on profit, bidness is bidness, but if focus on profit superceds
responsibility and competence with consequent injury to customers then
management has failed and it's in the public interest for the biz to
be sucked dry and perish. Pick yer pony, take yer ride.

An insurance company to prevent the demise of a bidness might be a
swell bidness concept because it would then be liable, management
could divert profit to pay the premiums rather than competently
manage, screw the shareholders if they can't take a joke. Rots o'
ruck finding an insurance company that is dumb enough not to profit
nicely from management's copout, but if the shareholders can be
snowjobbed to buy it then give management a raise and a bonus.

You're a shareholder in a privately held corp? Oh.... dear! Well,
**** happens!