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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Subject: Re: Fans and users ALWAYS know best...
Message-ID: <1642@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 15:48:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 15:48:11 1985
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In article <1013@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP writes:
>                                                      For example, to
>generalize out to a real-world situation: municipal bus drivers often
>know little or nothing about the bus system in their community, aside
>from their own routes -- they drive their line, trade off to another
>driver at the changeover point, get in a car and drive away. They know
>little about connecting lines, best paths to or lines to use to get from
>A to B, and care little about the trouble their mistakes or failures
>might cause to passengers. This situation would be corrected by one
>simple change -- "no transit system employee, bus driver, or member of
>their immediate family may own or operate a privately-owned motor vehicle."
>This one change would completely reverse the attitude of all the
>personnel -- now they would be working for *themselves* -- they would
>know that their running late, or missing a trip, would affect not just
>the faceless public out there, but it could well be their wife, or
>child, or elderly parent, or themselves who are suffering. The day after
>such a policy went into effect, the bus system would begin to
>dramatically improve, and it would continue getting better and better,
>because every employee would have deep motivation to make it better for
>themself.

I long ago came to the conclusion that the people who design the winter
coats that I end up wearing never actually have to spend much time
outside.  Most likely, their maximum exposure to the elements comes
from walking across the parking lot to their cars.  If a person who
designed a winter coat was required to spend one hour each week wearing
that coat in a refrigerated wind tunnel (simulated bus-stop
conditions), the state of the art would probably improve.
-- 
David Canzi

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