Replies to post #251970 on Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

[XenaLives]

Pretty simple, actually -

1) They aren't completely trained yet.

2) The operative variables have not been completely defined and there is inadequate experience for a statistical abstraction.

[BeerIsGood]

Me also. Just can't understand it.

I don't see why trained employees shouldn't be able to run the machine as well as Bordy.

Wonder why ever student doesn't get the same grades since they were taught by the same professor.

Wonder why every engineer don't invent the same stuff, after all, they are all engineers.

Wonder why every cook taught at the same school doesn't make the same food since they were all trained by the same chef.

Wonder why all writers don't have the same opinion since they all write.

Wonder why the welders that come from the same school can't all weld the same.

Wonder why all my employees can't do the same as me since I trained them all.

Wonder why some people can drink more beer than me, yet we are all beer drinkers.

Need I give more examples?

[budge]

I am having that very problem right now. client says "show joe shmoe how to operate this machine so we can have him in charge of making the do-dads."

I say "but joe has no experience in dealing with the mechanical principles involved and has no experience with dealing with all the variables. it would be like trying to teach him calculus without his first learning basic algebra, geometry, trig, etc."

"How long would it take"?

"Maybe three years, maybe five, maybe never. it depends on joe's aptitude. Someone with the capability to keep track of all that is happening would take about three years."

"Bullshit." "I don't know anything about it but it can't be that hard." "it seems automated to me."

I have tried to educate engineers, but they just don't believe that mastering some physical system can be as time consuming as their own efforts at the intellectual. there is a bit of arrogance involved and it carries a heavy price.

I've been through this before and sometimes works out sort of. many times people lose jobs and companies go broke.

Most people have an oversimplified concept of things they don't understand. You may learn how to operate a clarinet in a month or two, but Pete Fountain you ain't.