https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-s-your-best-work-smarter-not-harder-story <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>STORY TIME: A toothpaste manufacturing company was having an issue with it&#39;s supply lines. Every now and then a toothpaste tube wouldn&#39;t come through in time to be put into a box. This caused some customers to received empty packages. The company hired a consultant for $150,000. The consultant drafted an elaborate addition to the supply chain where the box was weighed, the line was stopped, and someone manually removed the empty box. This change cost $500,000 to build. For the first few weeks the system was working fine: the alarm would sound when a package w/o enough weight came through the line stopped, and the guy pulled the box off. <br /><br />A few weeks later a new person rotated into the position of Removal. The reports of the empty alarms going off went to 0. This was good because the line wasn&#39;t stopping, but the manager was suspicious. When the manager investigated he found that the Lazy Guy who took over got tired of standing up, removing the box, and restarting the line. <br /><br />He had set up a fan ahead of the weighing station which blew empty boxes off the line and into a bin. Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:16:15 -0400 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-s-your-best-work-smarter-not-harder-story <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>STORY TIME: A toothpaste manufacturing company was having an issue with it&#39;s supply lines. Every now and then a toothpaste tube wouldn&#39;t come through in time to be put into a box. This caused some customers to received empty packages. The company hired a consultant for $150,000. The consultant drafted an elaborate addition to the supply chain where the box was weighed, the line was stopped, and someone manually removed the empty box. This change cost $500,000 to build. For the first few weeks the system was working fine: the alarm would sound when a package w/o enough weight came through the line stopped, and the guy pulled the box off. <br /><br />A few weeks later a new person rotated into the position of Removal. The reports of the empty alarms going off went to 0. This was good because the line wasn&#39;t stopping, but the manager was suspicious. When the manager investigated he found that the Lazy Guy who took over got tired of standing up, removing the box, and restarting the line. <br /><br />He had set up a fan ahead of the weighing station which blew empty boxes off the line and into a bin. SGT Curtis Earl Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:16:15 -0400 2014-07-18T21:16:15-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-s-your-best-work-smarter-not-harder-story?n=181664&urlhash=181664 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well, mine is not as funny of a story, but a surprising lack of common sense. In my boat shop, we only have a couple of ratchets in varying drives, and a whole lot of wrenches, as well as an air gun to assist when we are removing engines. <br /><br />Well, this one time, our air compressor was out, so we couldn't use the air gun to take out the mounting bolts. This one Sailor decided to only grab a couple of wrenches to remove the bolts, taking an insanely long time to take off just one bolt, while we have a perfectly good... Well, decent... Ratchet in the toolbox. PO1 Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:32:09 -0400 2014-07-19T09:32:09-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-s-your-best-work-smarter-not-harder-story?n=194297&urlhash=194297 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Gotta love how lazy could have saved the company $650,000 dollars not to mention how much money was lost while the system was being "upgraded" SSgt Gregory Guina Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:34:06 -0400 2014-08-04T20:34:06-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-s-your-best-work-smarter-not-harder-story?n=7909042&urlhash=7909042 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I created the first DTS Smart Book for the army. MAJ Ken Landgren Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:10:21 -0400 2022-10-02T23:10:21-04:00 2014-07-18T21:16:15-04:00