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LOL... SixSigma isn't dying... It's dead.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 9:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/food-crisis-grows-spiralling-prices-122
859171.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall


Should have done this slowly, and started it a long time ago.

Now it's all unraveling at once because of the Biden* Administration and everyone in the world is going to pay for it.

2022 marks the year where the United State's largest export is You're All Fucked.

Death to SixSigma. Death to Globalization.


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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:21 PM

JONGSSTRAW


First Covid, then record-high inflation, then record-high gas prices, then Putin slaughtering women and children ... and now the final scourge .... a Malaysian palm oil shortage threatening the stability of everything on Earth! What's in store next for the pitiful remnants of the human race to endure? They gonna cancel Wheel Of Fortune or something equally devastating?

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Thursday, March 10, 2022 5:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
First Covid, then record-high inflation, then record-high gas prices, then Putin slaughtering women and children ... and now the final scourge .... a Malaysian palm oil shortage threatening the stability of everything on Earth! What's in store next for the pitiful remnants of the human race to endure? They gonna cancel Wheel Of Fortune or something equally devastating?



It's the worldwide supply chain breaking down.

We've spent decades building up a very intricate house of cards by sending "The Bobs" from Office Space into every single operation of the supply chain and making it global, offshoring all the work we possibly could to make people who own stock think they're richer while the CEOs and board members are the only ones really getting richer off of the backs everyone else.

The reason why palm oil prices were 50% cheaper and Chicago wheat futures were 60% cheaper up until this last year was because millions of employees were laid off and our multi-national corporations offshored so much.

We used to be a country that was self-sustainable. Now we aren't.

We could be, but it's going to take decades to rebuild that infrastructure internally. The infrastructure that our government aided the corporations in dismantling.

Laugh about palm oil and wheat if you want, but when you're going to be hard pressed to find any food you buy in the grocery store that isn't full of palm oil and wheat, it's going to be burning the candle at the other end on our cost of living while the price of oil is already going to make food prices explode.


And you're totally wrong about what's happening in the Ukraine right now. The fact that you and Ted are in lock-step with each other on that issue should be sending up warning bells for both of you.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

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Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:11 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Will soaring gas prices put your job at risk? These 7 occupations may feel the heat

https://news.yahoo.com/soaring-gas-prices-put-job-110033290.html

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“A fisherman has to have more money just to break even on a trip,” said David Veal, executive director of the American Shrimp Processors Association in Biloxi, Mississippi. “The cost goes beyond what a customer is willing to pay for it.”



Investors bet on higher long-term US inflation

https://www.ft.com/content/0a82b443-57ba-4e79-a75a-77aef0242e63?segmen
tId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9


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Data due out on Thursday are expected to show that consumer prices rose at the fastest level in 41 years in February, climbing 7.8 per cent from the year before, according to a survey of economists by Bloomberg.





Rental and home prices expected to rise even more this year, forcing some to pack up and move

https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/rental-and-home-prices-expecte
d-to-rise-even-more-into-the-year-forcing-some-to-pack-up-and-move




Analysts warn of recession if oil prices continue to surge further into ‘uncharted territory’

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/analysts-on-inflation-recession-after-
russian-oil-bans.html


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A complete ban on Russian energy imports in all major consuming countries would “severely reduce and disrupt energy supply” and prices could soar further into “uncharted territory,” wrote Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics.


It's all a house of cards.

Six-Sigma, and everyone behind it's utilization globally is to blame.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023 10:38 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Ship detained for using a drone while transiting Suez Canal

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/maritime-news/article/9602

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Saturday, December 21, 2024 12:15 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Bezos the pig!?

Thousands of Amazon workers go on strike


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Sunday, December 22, 2024 3:17 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I was always confused about your use of the term Six Sigma, SIX. When I heard about it, it was a term for quality control/ quality assurance: to reduce process errors to reduce defect rates to parts per million. As our group's QC/QA person, that's something I understand!

But, in looking it up, it seems Six Sigma has been applied to many things, and not only that, it's been combined with Lean Manufacturing.

So, what do YOU mean by Six Sigma? Bc apparently the term can mean a lot of things

Thanks ahead of time for the explanation.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 4:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I was always confused about your use of the term Six Sigma, SIX. When I heard about it, it was a term for quality control/ quality assurance: to reduce process errors to reduce defect rates to parts per million. As our group's QC/QA person, that's something I understand!

But, in looking it up, it seems Six Sigma has been applied to many things, and not only that, it's been combined with Lean Manufacturing.

So, what do YOU mean by Six Sigma? Bc apparently the term can mean a lot of things

Thanks ahead of time for the explanation.



I took classes on Six Sigma at my last "good" job. Unlike the crap jobs I've had where you have to take online courses for food safety and forklift driving every year even if you don't work in a food department or drive a forklift (not Six Sigma behavior, btw), there were no demands at all that you take any courses. It just looked good come raise time.

I found it both part equally fascinating and infuriating the more I learned about the Genesis of Six Sigma at Motorola and how it has infected everything since then. (This was not the intention of the programming... I was supposed to be very impressed and even become one of the tools for spreading Six Sigma after taking the courses).


It's not at all about quality control. That was never the mission. It's always about laying off every possible person you can layoff without a company folding.

It sounds great on paper, and the short term benefits were the 1% getting a lot richer off of it, but look around you...

Shopping anywhere sucks now. Everybody is understaffed and overworked. Let's just say that I don't eat out much anymore, but the last 3 times I did I was sitting a a dirty ass table that hadn't been wiped down yet.

I used to complain when I first got my prescriptions that I'd be standing in an 10 person line at CVS to get stuff and the ONE line that was open out of two took forever to process and there were 8 women back there, with half of them looking like they were doing nothing.

I shouldn't have complained. I'm sure you've heard about CVS's (and Walgreens') massive layoffs since Joe Biden* took office. Now I never see more than 3 people back there on any given day. Before, if I called in, I ALWAYS was able to talk to somebody. Now the only option is to leave a message and hope they get back to you in a reasonable amount of time.

Customer Service (and "The Customer is always right") is dead.

That's Six Sigma.

Well... That and outsourcing whatever you can when you can.



One thing I've always said since I took those classes is that our Government needs to be Six Sigma'd.

Maybe that's going to happen now.


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Sunday, December 22, 2024 4:37 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Ah!
OK!
Makes sense now.
Thanks!



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Oh, I understand the CVS experience. We switched to Walgreens and they've been great for years. But I always wondered how long they would last bc, aside from their pharmacy, the remainder of their store was moribund. The only people in there besides pharma customers were kids from the high school across the street just hanging out, and they weren't buying anything.

Walgreens lost $6billion this year. Apparently they invested in a startup - Village MD- which was a doctor staffed clinic next door. Not that I've seen any, but you'd think that it would be a godsend for rural locations where hospital corps are shuttering operations.

The investment didn't pan out, and now Walgreens is considering selling to a private turnaround company, Sycamore Partners. The good thing about Sycamore, they're not a chop shop like Chainsaw Al. Hasn't happened yet.

But the thing Walgreens just did was close our most local pharmacy. I refuse to go back to CVS, so we're going to have to go further out of our way for our meds.

Yanno, I have so many ideas how Walgreens could improve their bottom line without laying off people. Improving their automated refill line ... which never, ever fucking worked no matter which mode I tried (voice, keypad, by Rx number or name) would reduce tech workload. Also, people are like ants: attracted to food. How about a little snack, sandwich and coffee/ milkshake bar to attract and hold customers? Their product displays sucked. Their OTC and health care gizmos were good, maybe expanding online sales? Anyway, I hope they make it.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 7:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Yeah... I don't know what Walgreens or CVS are going to do or what they're going to look like in the future.

There's a reason why nobody is shopping in them outside of the Pharmacy, and that's because even their "sale" prices are always too much. I think their model now isn't any different than your local gas station. They know they have a huge built-in clientele, so why not put the pharmacy all the way at the back of the store and fill it up with aisles of overpriced shit they'll need to pass by twice and hopefully they fill up a cart while they're here.

I always find it cute when my receipt tells me I earned $2 in rewards bucks if I spend $10 in the next 2 weeks. Not a chance. Whatever I was going to walk out paying $8 for I could pay $6 at a grocery store and $5 on Amazon with free shipping to my door.




My one prediction for Pharmacy?

It's not good for pharmacists. At all.


Technically, if the goddamned doctors were doing their jobs, especially with the tech available to us today which should be able to do the job better than any human could consistently, we don't even need extremely high paid pharmacists. I think the heads at CVS and Walgreens are just as aware of this as I am. And since they're a business, I could see them saying it's not their problem if a customer gets two medications from them that react badly with each other. Their only job is to fill prescriptions given to them by doctors. And I don't necessarily even disagree with this.

If they could get away with that legally, that's the end of the Pharmacist, and you're going to have a whole lot of people who thought they were getting into a great field that have no jobs and probably very little skills that could be used elsewhere without a lot more school first.


Besides legal issues, I think they're just afraid and are waiting to see if the other guy does it first. How reliable are their systems that were made by man? Can they be relied on to prevent people from poisoning themselves with conflicting prescriptions from 2 doctors at once?

They are well aware that if they do this and people start dying off, that will be the end of that for a generation and they're going to be stuck with pharmacists for at least 30 more years.

But the pharmacists out there had better be paying attention, saving whatever money they can, and if they're still young they should be planning another source of income so they're not stuck stocking shelves next to somebody like me for the rest of their lives.

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