"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:


I am pretty sick of "product testers" checking out new tools in these
magazines.

Was told this story when I was a rookie by a senior design engineer.

Seems there was a guy who was all thumbs.

No matter what he picked up, he broke it.

Finally, plant supt had an idea.

Rather than fire the guy, he made him chief product tester and gave
him his own lab space.

He got to play with every new product as part of the design process.

If he could break it, the design engineers had to "fix" the problem.

Don't know if it was just a good story or not, but it sure sounded
good.

Lew

There's a story told about Henry Ford where he puts the laziest guy in
the plant on a particularly difficult process. If there's an easier way
to do it that guy will find it. G

Max