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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Amen brother!

Some time back I was requested by a customer to have the production line start organizing cell phone sales packs in larger boxes by their serial number. At the time the sorting was random. It occurred to me that this change might actually speed us up a tiny bit as well as making the customer happy.

So I proposed a master carton label change to the IT guy responsible.

"No one else has asked for this so I can't implement it. All customers have to approve of a change like this," he responded.

"The same customers who now have no preference whatsoever, apparently, since the packs are currently sorted randomly?" I asked.

"um... yeah... well..."

"Just do it," I said. "If others don't care now, why would they even notice after the change?"

Blew my mind I had to explain that...
Resources man, resources.

In your case other customers may not have been aware of another customers request. However, when they are as others are here... one request soon turns into a downpour.

Also in your case, you saw a benefit in increased productivity for the whole line. However, in a case where most wouldn't be affected either way I must then say; why waist the resources?

Whoever takes the empire and wishes to do anything to it I see will have no respite.
The empire is a sacred vessel and nothing should be done to it.
Whoever does anything to it will ruin it;
whoever lays hold of it will lose it.

Hence some things lead and some follow;
Some breathe gently and some breathe hard;
Some are strong and some are weak;
Some destroy and some are destroyed.

Therefore the sage avoids excess, extravagance, and arrogance

–-Tao Te Ching, Chapter 29

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