[ExI] plastic turkeys

[spike at rainier66.com]

>…> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] plastic turkeys

 

>…I had a symbolic encounter this morning with a plastic turkey.  …

 

>…So we are kind of stuck without anyone or anything to thank that we are not making plastic turkeys, not that there is anything whatsoever wrong with that. Just a thought.  bill w

 

 

Hi Billw, this comment brought a smile and some pleasant hours of pondering and recalling fond memories of my career opportunities to observe mass production (or in this case lower-midlevel production (typically what we used to call class 4, perhaps 10 thousand units.)

 

Let’s do a little thought experiment pls and work backwards thru the process which ended with the plastic turkey selling BBQ grills at Home Despot or equivalent purveyor of BBQ grills, hoping to point out, particularly this time of year, that an outdoor gas grill is a great way to roast one’s holiday turkey or pot roast (I have used my grill for that purpose and it works.)

 

The lowest level guy in that whole guy in that chain of production has a lousy job.  She is the one whose job is to take the plastic turkeys and package them in a paper box, tape it shut and load them onto a truck headed for the post office or UPS.

 

The reason I wrote about that is that every other job going north in the skill level chain of production, is a great job.  I completely understand why whoever holds those jobs would be thanking their favorite deity or evolution.

 

spike 

 

 

 

 

 

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