On 14/07/14 13:43, Jabba wrote:
whisky-dave scribbled...


On Monday, 14 July 2014 10:41:34 UTC+1, Jabba wrote:
The Natural Philosopher scribbled...





On 14/07/14 09:08, Brian Gaff wrote:

we used to call this kind of thing stock faults in that once

encountered it would be written up and published for others to find and save

time down the line.



Except of course that the time to fix often exceeds the cost to replace.





Are you unable to think 'long term' ?

In the long term somethimes is best to throw something out that keeps going wrong.


Did you read Brian Gaff's post? I'm assuming he worked for a company
that may have had (for example) many printers. Chucking them out one at
a time if a similar fault developed isn't best practice, when the
solution is easily fixable.


Doesn't make a jot of difference: I have run companies that had lots of
equipment. If cost to fix cost to replace it gets junked. You can also
write that off against profits.

With skilled staff at £20/hr it doesn't take long to make kit not worth
fixing.



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