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On 10/14/2025 at 7:28 AM, Dbeasy said:

Unnecessary dental work. It’s huge. Sorry that you’ve got mouth full of fake cavities. 

I have a fake tooth from a tractor tire incident as a child.  Our local dentist kept insisting that instead of having a permanent fake drilled into my jawbone, we keep trying a less invasive fake that was bonded to the back of the other teeth.  After the third time it broke on regular food, and he tried to suggest the same procedure that failed a bunch of times, my old man told him to fuck off and we went and got a permanent installation that's had no issues 20+ years in.

Dude just wanted to keep me coming through the door every 3 months.

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3 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

Pretty much same thing happened to me, but we really did need ours replaced. Found a local company who I could talk to the owner. Alot cheaper with a much better service 

What’s the company name?

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Thankfully it’s more a thing of the past but the proliferation of Six Sigma bullshit in white collar industries was the biggest scam going for a while…

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2 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Thankfully it’s more a thing of the past but the proliferation of Six Sigma bullshit in white collar industries was the biggest scam going for a while…

It made it even easier to identify the dumbasses though. 

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Thankfully it’s more a thing of the past but the proliferation of Six Sigma bullshit in white collar industries was the biggest scam going for a while…
Fuck Jack Welch and the "leaders" he spread like a cancer across the globe in the aughts. When one of his lackeys took over my former company Six Sigma became mandatory for everyone. It was really just a way to reduce headcount by putting the "right" people on the black belt path, but everyone had to complete green belt training & sit on at least 3 project charters that closed within 12 months or you'd be ranked low & job eliminated. Paranoid yes men were launching charters left & right to show how much they'd "embraced our new culture" which was bullshit because the company already had a century's worth of process improvement baked into its DNA. The black belts & master black belts would search out the high achievers & fight over the high profile charters that looked awesome on PowerPoint, but the yield was rarely more than 15% of what was advertised due to the bullshit math & fake numbers they were pushing. I had a colleague who ended up on a two month long project charter that amounted to eight people 5S'ing a reception area desk because their boss was in danger of not closing the minimum number of charters that year.
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25 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Fuck Jack Welch and the "leaders" he spread like a cancer across the globe in the aughts. When one of his lackeys took over my former company Six Sigma became mandatory for everyone. It was really just a way to reduce headcount by putting the "right" people on the black belt path, but everyone had to complete green belt training & sit on at least 3 project charters that closed within 12 months or you'd be ranked low & job eliminated. Paranoid yes men were launching charters left & right to show how much they'd "embraced our new culture" which was bullshit because the company already had a century's worth of process improvement baked into its DNA. The black belts & master black belts would search out the high achievers & fight over the high profile charters that looked awesome on PowerPoint, but the yield was rarely more than 15% of what was advertised due to the bullshit math & fake numbers they were pushing. I had a colleague who ended up on a two month long project charter that amounted to eight people 5S'ing a reception area desk because their boss was in danger of not closing the minimum number of charters that year. emoji2959.png

Outside of manufacturing, where six sigma is just SPC/SQC by a fancy name, it's pretty much bullshit.

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Outside of manufacturing, where six sigma is just SPC/SQC by a fancy name, it's pretty much bullshit.
Yep. And especially problematic when it's forced into an R&D environment. Try to force brilliant lab guys to make concepts fit into C&E matrices.
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16 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I have a fake tooth from a tractor tire incident as a child.  Our local dentist kept insisting that instead of having a permanent fake drilled into my jawbone, we keep trying a less invasive fake that was bonded to the back of the other teeth.  After the third time it broke on regular food, and he tried to suggest the same procedure that failed a bunch of times, my old man told him to fuck off and we went and got a permanent installation that's had no issues 20+ years in.

Dude just wanted to keep me coming through the door every 3 months.

YARN | And you call that the tractor story? | Seinfeld (1989 ...

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I have an uncle that worked at Ford. 

They had a 6 week six sigma training that managers could send employees to. Only shitty employees got sent to it because managers would not want to send a good employee there and lose them for 6 weeks. So when my uncle saw somebody trying to transfer into his group and they had the 6 week six sigma course on their employee record they were an auto reject for him.

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18 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Those are great, but cost 4x what a properly sized cap does.

Then buy 4 caps. Or buy one of those which cost about 1/4 what an A/C guy is going to charge you. Put the universal one in, order the normal one, install the normal one and have the universal one back on the shelf. It ain’t rocket surgery. 

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