the auto industry bakes a potato

[OnBelay]

Baking potatoes the automotive industry way:

 

How a Honda employee bakes a potato:

 

Preheat new, high-quality oven to 350 F. Insert Idaho

potato. Go do something productive for 45 minutes. Check

for doneness, and then Remove perfectly baked potato from

oven and serve.

 

How a GM employee bakes a potato:

 

Instruct an Idaho potato supplier to preheat the oven to

350 F. Demand that the supplier show you how he turned the

dial to reach 350F, and have him come up with documentation

from the oven manufacturer proving that it was calibrated

properly. Review documentation, and then have supplier

check the temperature using sophisticated temperature

probe. Direct supplier to insert potato and set timer for

45 minutes. Have supplier open oven to prove potato has

been installed correctly, and request a free study proving

that 45 minutes is the ideal time to bake a potato of this

size.

 

Check potato for doneness after 10 minutes. Check potato

for doneness after 11 minutes. Check potato for doneness

after 12 minutes.

 

Become impatient with supplier (why is this simple potato

taking so long to bake?). Demand status reports every five

minutes. Check potato for doneness after 15 minutes...

After 35 minutes, conclude that potato is nearing

completion. Congratulate supplier, and then update your

boss on all the great work you've done, despite having to

work with such an uncooperative supplier. Remove potato

from oven after 40 minutes of baking, as a cost savings;

without loss of function or quality versus the original 45

minute baking time. Serve potato.

 

Wonder aloud what on earth those Japanese folks are doing

over there to make such good low-cost baked potatoes that

people seem to like better than GM potatoes.

 

Daimler Chrysler's Baked Potatoes:

 

Design great looking potato. Include sour cream, bacon

bits, chives, and cheese. Bean counters then create MCM

system. Engineers spend 2 years looking for ways to take

out sour cream, bacon bits, chives, and cheese. Engineers

find cheap imitation chives from Japanese supplier.

Management commands engineers to use expensive,

over-engineered German bacon bits to help prop up weak

German suppliers. Sell potato with cheap imitation chives,

no sour cream, cheese or expensive German bacon bits.

Potato rots so fast customer swears never to buy another

DCX potato.

 

Ford's Baked Potatoes:

 

Engineers create plain looking, "everyman" potato. Sold as

"green" alternative to French Fries. When micro waved,

potato explodes, causing death and injury to customers and

bringing end to 100-year potato and butter-supplier

relationship, Lawyers flourish

[Supurban]

That was hilarious.......immediately reminded me of this cartoon:

[PELICAN]

that cartoon is hilarious