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Bolts may need to be different sizes due to the forces on them. Other solution might have been give the employee two wrenches, one each of the proper size.
by throwaway201103 6y ago
Bolts may need to be different sizes due to the forces on them. Other solution might have been give the employee two wrenches, one each of the proper size.
- freeopinion 6y agoClassic. Fictional employee. Fictional scenario. But you still assume that the employee isn't smart enough to know why bolts are different sizes and whether a bigger bolt could work in the place of the smaller bolts. You assume you know more about this fictional car than the fictional employee actually (um, I mean fictionally) building it. You should apply for management.
- jacobsenscott 6y agoThere's really no reason to think the person turning the bolt knows what size the bolt needs to be. It isn't insulting to the employee, it just isn't there job. In the same way a web dev doesn't know how docker works, or how their OS's memory allocate works, or how a C programmer doesn't know how the hardware works, or how an EE can't write readable code to save their life.
- reificator 6y ago> In the same way a web dev doesn't know how docker works Reductively it's CoW snapshots + chroot. Guess I need to find a new job.
- jhardy54 6y agof u l l s t a c k
- jacobsenscott 6y agoContainers and a layered file system is closer to the mark
- jhardy54 6y agoTwo weeks ago I was writing a UI in React. Last week I was writing a Dockerfile. This week I'm building a circuit with a microcontroller. People don't have to hyper-specialize to one specific role.
- dane-pgp 6y agoWeird flex, but okay.
- aurbano 6y agoHow's that weird? It is perfect anecdotal counter-evidence to the claim it's responding to.
- dane-pgp 6y agoI interpreted the original claim as being: > There's really no reason to think the person turning the bolt necessarily knows what size the bolt needs to be. and also steel-manned the final sentence like this: > In the same way a web dev doesn't need to know how docker works As such, the (claimed) existence of one person who regularly uses very different skills doesn't disprove what I think jacobsenscott was trying to say.
- jhardy54 6y agoSure, but there's no reason to believe the person turning the bolt necessarily doesn't know what size it needs to be. Example using the same logic as the post we're discussing: Someone flips a coin in another room. It doesn't necessarily have to be heads, so we should assume it's tails.
- hajimemash 6y agoI thought this was cool.
- spoopyskelly 6y agoJack of all trades, master of none.
- tstack 6y ago> But you still assume that the employee isn't smart enough to know why bolts are different sizes and whether a bigger bolt could work in the place of the smaller bolts. It sounds like you are not familiar with this disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse There may be a very good reason things are the way they are.
- bravura 6y agoAnd apparently you a not familiar with what a cargo cult is?
- tstack 6y agoUh... what? The comment I replied to argued that a random employee might understand why a particular bolt was chosen. The walkway collapse is literally about bolts/nuts being changed around. That design change by a third party resulted in a disaster that killed over 100 people... Seems like appropriate evidence that a line worker would not actually understand design details. That's not to say they couldn't make a suggestion and feedback their experience. Of course they should do that.
- rightbyte 6y agoYou can have the same hexagon head size for different thread diameters within the limits of what is silly.
- syshum 6y agoWhile that may be true, it is equally possible that the engineer did engineer thing with out giving a crap about the assembly thing, this happens alot...