Whoa! This isn't much more than three miles from me and much closer to James Scott Jr, if I remember correctly.
Whoa! This isn't much more than three miles from me and much closer to James Scott Jr, if I remember correctly.
I was just having this conversation with a friend - a discussion about how checks are, or at least should be, built into each process in a corporate environment to ensure quality control at each stage of the process. Specifically, I said, there are things that one of my college courses called "the perfect mistake." This happens when everything works as planned but multiple failures along the way that were either ignored or not expressed create a failure so perfect no one thing could have stopped it.
I read this article just before the discussion came up and couldn't help noticing the parallels. Here, a man died because because the status checks didn't work. First, he wondered away from his retirement community. Sure, it happens. Then he ends up in an elevator that fails, for some reason. Then he hits the call button that either does call the DFD and no one answers or it doesn't call. Apartment management sends someone to check on the elevator but they don't check this particular one, one has to wonder if that as due to it being in a construction zone.
The whole affair is a tragedy that could have been avoided if any single one of the checks in place would have worked. It's a damn shame.
Originally shared by Washington Post
He pushed an elevator’s alarm button but no one came, officials say. Weeks later, his body was found.
http://wapo.st/2vt2wnQ
I was just having this conversation with a friend - a discussion about how checks are, or at least should be, built into each process in a corporate environment to ensure quality control at each stage of the process. Specifically, I said, there are things that one of my college courses called "the perfect mistake." This happens when everything works as planned but multiple failures along the way that were either ignored or not expressed create a failure so perfect no one thing could have stopped it.
I read this article just before the discussion came up and couldn't help noticing the parallels. Here, a man died because because the status checks didn't work. First, he wondered away from his retirement community. Sure, it happens. Then he ends up in an elevator that fails, for some reason. Then he hits the call button that either does call the DFD and no one answers or it doesn't call. Apartment management sends someone to check on the elevator but they don't check this particular one, one has to wonder if that as due to it being in a construction zone.
The whole affair is a tragedy that could have been avoided if any single one of the checks in place would have worked. It's a damn shame.
Originally shared by Washington Post
He pushed an elevator’s alarm button but no one came, officials say. Weeks later, his body was found.
http://wapo.st/2vt2wnQ
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