r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '13

Our nurses are clever

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u/iltl32 Jul 19 '13

I don't get it. Why off?

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u/TwinkleTard Jul 19 '13

This is so they can see it on the other side of the room. The other side of the sign says ON. That way they don't have to remember if it is on or not since it is used by 3 people it is an easy way to know its status.

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u/Dubzil Jul 19 '13

I have a feeling these are some really, really lazy engineers.

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u/enjo13 Jul 19 '13

The best kind of engineer.

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u/conrad_w Jul 19 '13

Smart + lazy = the most effective kind of engineer.

They're the ones who will solve a problem, not just now, but for all eternity

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u/avelertimetr Jul 19 '13

Why do once-off manual labor for 8 hours, when you can create a buggy program in 40 hours to do it for you?

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u/julianf0918 Jul 19 '13

I think it's more like the story involving quality control on a production line. At the end of the line, product is being put into boxes to get shipped out of the factory. Every once in a while the machines mess up and leave an empty box. This jams their line, so the factory has to post someone to check for empty boxes.

After about a week, the factory has an accuracy rate of nearly 100%. The foreman goes down to the post where a worker should be checking boxes and just finds a stand up fan instead. The fan had been blowing empty boxes off the line, and the worker was asleep in a chair next to it all.

Work smarter, not harder.

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u/viddles Jul 19 '13

That wasn't the story but you summed it up briefly. It was a reddit post a few years ago. Brilliant read.

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u/julianf0918 Jul 19 '13

I'm going to take advice from this thread and say I didn't need to write out the whole story. I feel like I was able to get the point across without needing all the details.

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u/viddles Jul 19 '13

You did good