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  • 914Driver

    Sept. 16, 2009 9:08 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork

    Sitting in five days of Green Belt training, rather have a root canal.

    Then my son called. He found a 6" half circle crack in the windshield of his 2008 GTi this morning. Rats. His girlfriend takes the car to the store, calls him up "The trunk won't open." She starts yawing on it.

    The crack was caused by a chunk of red brick, how it got on the windshield is unknown, but it bounced to the trunk. It wedged itself in the trunk/body gap. She pulled on it finally opening the trunk but buggered up the paint etc.

    She calls back, "trunk won't close". The same pristine bullet got into the bottom of the trunk and kept it from closing. Not being technical or a car person, she honks on the trunk to close it. More damage.

    He sold a motorcycle but couldn't get it up the ramp due to the ramp's slipperiness and torrential downpour. Two cops helped him push it up the ramp. The purchaser of the bike wants to go for a ride, he's sporting a bicycle helmet. By the way the guy approached the bike, it was obvious he had never even sat on one before.

    Yikes.

    I fell better, going back to class and draw some pictures in the notebook.

    Dan

  • RX Reven'

    Sept. 16, 2009 9:52 a.m. RX Reven' Reader

    Hi Dan,

    I’m sorry you’re not enjoying the training…I’ve conducted about twenty Lean / Sigma Green Belt waves over the last five years and I always make sure my “kids” have a good time with it.

    Ask the instructor to explain hypothesis testing using an analogy of two drunk cowboys gambling with each other.

    Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions you may have.

    Brett

  • 4cylndrfury

    Sept. 16, 2009 10:43 a.m. 4cylndrfury Dork

    green belt, lean, 6 sigma, 5S, Kaizen, BPI...the list goes on. If I had kept every "certificate of completion" I'd ever received for these things, Id have nowhere to hang my hotwheels in my cubicle.

  • 914Driver

    Sept. 16, 2009 11:00 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork

    37 years service, most as a QC Inspector I've lived through TQM, Quality circles, studied Demming before he was popular and I'm ASQC Certified. My supervisor put me in for an award just for stepping up to the plate, free money just spends better.

    Will I use LSS in everyday life? Probably not.

    Will I use LSS in my work? Possibly.

    Will I learn something? Yes, definately.

    Dan

  • 2002maniac

    Sept. 16, 2009 12:44 p.m. 2002maniac Reader

    I was really puzzled until I read RX Reven's reply.

    Green Belt? Must be karate, right?

  • Keith

    Sept. 16, 2009 12:44 p.m. Keith SuperDork

    I have no idea what you are talking about (I initially read "Green Beret training"), but I also would like to hear hypothesis testing explained by drunken gambling cowboys. Actually, you can explain anything you'd like with that analogy, I just feel my day needs more drunken cowboys.

    Ooo, that could so be read the wrong way.

  • 914Driver

    Sept. 16, 2009 12:58 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork

    RX Reven' wrote:

    Ask the instructor to explain hypothesis testing using an analogy of two drunk cowboys gambling with each other.

    He doesn't know that story.

    Dan

  • RX Reven'

    Sept. 16, 2009 1:07 p.m. RX Reven' Reader

    Hi Dan,

    Bhahaha…it’s so cool that you asked him.

    Let’s give him another opportunity to prove his metal.

    Ask him to explain Cp / Cpk analysis using the anology of a drunk chauffeur trying to park a wide limousine in a narrow garage.

    I made up the cowboy gage myself but the chauffeur gage is standard material so he sould know about it it if he has a rounded understanding of the subject.

    Brett

  • Keith

    Sept. 16, 2009 1:13 p.m. Keith SuperDork

    I want to take one of Brett's classes.

  • John Brown

    Sept. 16, 2009 1:29 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

    ^ +1 Every example involves drunk people... Maybe we could provide in class examples.

  • RX Reven'

    Sept. 16, 2009 3:01 p.m. RX Reven' Reader

    I can't let folks drink in class but there's nothing stopping me from bringing them here at the end of the day:

    Harper's B&G - Northridge, CA

    I bust out my laptop and we use MiniTab statistical software to do stuff like multiple regression on beer / accuracy relationships during dart games.

    Brett

 
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