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To all the young people out there...STAY IN SCHOOL! Jerry Aragon/The Humor Doctor humordoctormd@yahoo.com |
Problem-solving in the WORK PLACE |
Below, are a few ideas that I have come up with while at my regular job, or as a temporary employee after job layoffs. * Created a color scheme, while a Temp at Blue Cross, to make file maintenance more efficient. Boxes of files would be shipped from New Mexico to Colorado. The files would be taken home, in Colorado, by teleworkers, to be places on disketts, and when they were returned, they were usually out of order and a mess. By implementing the color code on the files, were able to find and process the folders much more quickly and efficiently. * Used the 600 degree temperature of a soldering pot at Martin- Marietta, to remove stubborn coating from thousands of electric wires, which were to be soldered. This process did not damage the wires, and was a big savings in time and money. * At Express Scripts; (Pharmacy) Four numbers were placed on the floor with tape...two numbers on each side of the conveyer belt. These numbers represented each of the four sections in the department where various medications were stored. When the totes (small baskets) came down, they could be unloaded off the conveyer, and stacked on each number. This allowed for for more organization...more efficiency, and the finger-pointing was all but eliminated, and made for a more positive work place. * At Lovelace Health Systems; What a difference a day makes! Rather than processing patient batches, as they came in...they were stacked, put in number sequence and set aside. This allowed for more batches to come in during the day. By doing it this way...about 95 to 100 percent were processed, as opposed to the 70 to 75 percent doing it the old way. This saved a lot of time because there was less posting and inter-filing. * At Wells Fargo, this was a fun idea more than anything else. The employees there wore name badges. They were made of plastic and measured about !" x 3" or so. Wells Fargo has an Old West theme, with the stagecoach and horses as a logo. I came up with an idea for a five point (star) sheriff's badge, which would be shiny gold in color, and have the employee's name engraved on them. The employee would have the choice of wearing either style of badge. * At EG&G (engineering), a measuring device we had on hand (stock), had a weather cover on it, to protect the connections, wiring, etc. But, the customer did not want a weather cover on it, for whatever reasons. So, the engineers decided to form a protective cover, by dipping the device in epoxy...let it dry...do it again, a total of six times, to form a hard protective cover. During assembly, the problem came up of possibly getting air trapped in and around the four connections, and the possibility of breaking the connections during the dipping process. The idea came up to use a small amount of quick-dry epoxy to pot the connections BEFORE the dipping began. This way, the connections were hardened and protected. If air would have been trapped, and the devices didn't work properly, or the connections broken, it would have been a lot of lost time and money...and, maybe an angry or lost customer. By doing it this way, everything worked out beautifully. |
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