Why strive for excellence?

[Bob Huntress]

If 99.9% Were Good Enough, then...

Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes
1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.
12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.
14,208 defective PCs will be shipped this year.
103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.
2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.
5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire.
Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.
3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips.
$9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months.
20,000 incorrect dreg prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
$761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.

I also shared this on Kountry Life, but thought it was noteworthy.

 

[Anonymous-0]

thats because all the forign labor [we] hired cant read english!!!

 

[Billpa]

AMEN to that

 

[dhermesc]

"thats because all the forign labor [we] hired cant read english!!!"

As apposed to the "Americans" graduating from highschool that can't read at all?

 

[Nancy Howell]

Really scary - these illiterates being graduated from our high schools with no common sense or work ethic will be running the government, hospitals, businesses, etc. And we think things are bad now?!

 

[ben brown]

i was wonder who has enough time or realy care to look all this up and what difference it make to know such things. as far as the county going see i remember my parents wonder what would happen when there generationg got old. there just somethings one doesent need to spent lot time worring about. by the way who keep track all that stuff must be a sceary job they probly dont sleep at night worring the irs lost one of ther tax returns.

 

[Matt_In]

So there is a chance my parents aren't my real parents....

 

[DLJ in NC]

Ok Matt, HaHa,

I did find out when I turned 30 that one of my real parents was actually an adopted parent. Not a problem though. I figure I am much better off as is.