There's an old story about toothpaste boxes and solving the empty box problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/2o9dho/the_empty_toothpaste_box_pro

There's an old story about toothpaste boxes and solving the empty box problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/2o9dho/the_empty_toothpaste_box_problem/ https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/2o9dho/the_emp... I've always suspected it was apocryphal. But just think, if the workers had installed that fan beforehand, we might be reading a story about how important workers are at solving little production problems. Everyone thinks this mentality of having workers fix problems is great, until they use soap to put glued parts on.