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Nothing like a panic'd phone call from a customer at 6am, all because the UPS tracking website hadn't updated yet
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02-29-2020, 11:00 AM | #67107 |
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Why is it...
Why is it that whenever my wife starts a conversation by saying:
"I'm not crazy, but..." I inevitably think "oh god... that is bat-shit crazy" about what she says...
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Needy customers seem to have a lot in common with mother-in-laws
I ran into work to grab the tracking number off my UPS machine. Called and they verified that the package would deliver today. I call the guy back and I get the, "what if it doesn't?" So I made a wiring diagram for him to bypass the remote system and just as I am sending it to him he texts me a picture of the package that had just arrived
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I take anything I hear before the 'but' in a sentence and disregarded it as bullshit. I like you, but... It looks pretty good, but... The customer is always right, but...
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That's just plain stupid, but interesting and different. Did I insult or complement your above thought? |
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If anything the part before the but sets the tone for the response of whom your talking with.
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Correct. The globalized economy is not just about cheaper labor, it's also about efficiency. E.g. all the electronics manufacturing geographically close together in Asia makes R&D faster and reduces total shipping costs incurred by all the parts. Trade results in greater economic output, but also specialization in competitive advantages.
Unfortunately that also means that a disruption to the system means there is much less redundancy to fall back on. If everyone were like North Korea (juche) and produced everything they needed domestically, the economy would be much less productive but countries would be more insulated to events elsewhere in the world. As you're seeing right now, Japan and South Korea are in trouble and there's probably a crisis pending in California as well. You could bring all the factories in China back online, but many companies there have dependency on Korean and Japanese parts which is going to be a problem. Last edited by serialk11r; 02-29-2020 at 04:00 PM. |
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