slightly OT: preventing user stupidity

[Michael J. Mc Avoy Sr.]

To add a line or two...

Don't leave out the Ultra High Muckie in the MIS department.

Where I had worked for over 30 years, gone now DOA, SHE decide that WE 
needed a new program/system.  I was working at a cake job in shipping at 
the time and with only my self taught and learned the very hard way I 
said why not wait till we finish out this job, an order worth over 40 
million, why not wait till we finish this then use the new system for 
the newer jobs and phase out the old system.

Well what in the heck did a non skilled wrench jerker (Journeyman 
Millwright in the eyes of the State of Ohio) know.

Well let me tell ya.................

At one point I had found and pointed out any number of ways to any 
number of the Muckies that I told you so.  We were using both systems at 
the same time.  One program had no idea what the other was doing, 
purchasing bought it once with one program then again with the other. 
At one time I had tallied up almost $30,000.00 in double ordered, one of 
a kind items but, who cared.

Then they called from the job site looking for a sticker guide.

Note: A sticker guide is used on a rolling mill, a rolling mill is the 
machine that makes those coils of steel you see on trucks and being 
unloaded off ships from the rest of the world.  Big fat donuts.

Now the sticker guide is about the size of a full size pickup truck, two 
of them.  I need glasses, but not that bad.  One system thought it was 
built, the other had no clue.

I'm telling ya.........

And both of my feet have healed.

Best Regards,
Mike McAvoy