The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLI

[Farm Boy]

Well, it's good for them in that they'd be inedible elsewise, but yeah. Stored fruit is still out of season fruit.

 

[The_J]

mmhh.... I guess I've not considered that it's getting now too cold for them here too .
Okay, yeah, storage is probably then the reason.

 

[Takhisis]

As for what to do with the peaches themselves, I suggest trying to make them into jam, jelly, or even compote.

Or use them to cook, with meat! A good side of beef augmented with onions, a bit of potatoes, and some peaches and/or prunes is a wonderful pie filling, of the type that you start eating before you put it into the pie.

 

[warpus]

You could also probably write a silly song about them

 

[Takhisis]

And then sing it!

 

[Gori the Grey]

1) is there management jargon for that principle some companies adopt of trying to make sure lines of communication extend to the most humble worker, on the idea that anyone, anywhere in a company, can see ways to do things better/more economically?

2) is there a go-to example of a particular company that is thought to have done this particularly well/thrived by virtue of having implemented this policy?

 

[Birdjaguar]

1) is there management jargon for that principle some companies adopt of trying to make sure lines of communication extend to the most humble worker, on the idea that anyone, anywhere in a company, can see ways to do things better/more economically?

2) is there a go-to example of a particular company that is thought to have done this particularly well/thrived by virtue of having implemented this policy?

Yes and yes. But I cannot recall them.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yes and yes. But I cannot recall them.

"Productivity through people" was coined in the book In Search of Excellence and in that book they applied it to Delta Airlines in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

[Farm Boy]

The Toyota Way also worked until it didn't.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thanks, you two.

 

[warpus]

1) is there management jargon for that principle some companies adopt of trying to make sure lines of communication extend to the most humble worker, on the idea that anyone, anywhere in a company, can see ways to do things better/more economically?

Transparency? That word got added to a whole bunch of mission statements at my place of employment.. about a decade ago or so. Transparency was a big deal on a project I worked on that was basically quality assurance system. We built a system that allows stakeholders from various departments to log in to a scrollable timeline with notes, files, etc. and see what they're supposed to see. for a variety of different approval processes. One of the main goals was to make the whole process more open, so that everybody could see exactly where each part of the QA process was at, where it might be stuck, how long it took, what was coming up next, what had already been approved in the past, etc.

 

[Takhisis]

2) is there a go-to example of a particular company that is thought to have done this particularly well/thrived by virtue of having implemented this policy?

Jim Henson, back in the times of the Muppet Show, would take suggestions from anyone.

 

[The_J]

As for what to do with the peaches themselves, I suggest trying to make them into jam, jelly, or even compote.

Or use them to cook, with meat! A good side of beef augmented with onions, a bit of potatoes, and some peaches and/or prunes is a wonderful pie filling, of the type that you start eating before you put it into the pie.

I'm trying my best to not have work with food, and I like ripe peaches quite a bit . Thanks for the advise though .

 

[Takhisis]

So everything is… <takes off sunglasses> peachy then?

 

[warpus]

I am watching We were Soldiers and .. is this really how the Vietnam war went down? All the troops are just running at each other while yelling and firing their guns. In one scene a Vietnamese general pointed to a map and explained a flanking strategy, and then everybody ran out of the bunker towards the Americans, as if the intricate details of the attack were just going to fall into place. The scene when the Americans first land with their choppers and the soldiers get out, they start firing their machine guns right away, a decent amount of time before the audience even gets to see any enemy. There is a big clearing, so you assume they were firing into the trees or something, but those weren't that close either. All scenes like that just seem.. weird. As if they make a mockery of actual combat. Did they actually have military advisors for this or did they just make it all up? It's very possible that's actually how war be, but I am just a bit skeptical

 

[Broken_Erika]

I am watching We were Soldiers and .. is this really how the Vietnam war went down? All the troops are just running at each other while yelling and firing their guns. In one scene a Vietnamese general pointed to a map and explained a flanking strategy, and then everybody ran out of the bunker towards the Americans, as if the intricate details of the attack were just going to fall into place. The scene when the Americans first land with their choppers and the soldiers get out, they start firing their machine guns right away, a decent amount of time before the audience even gets to see any enemy. There is a big clearing, so you assume they were firing into the trees or something, but those weren't that close either. All scenes like that just seem.. weird. As if they make a mockery of actual combat. Did they actually have military advisors for this or did they just make it all up? It's very possible that's actually how war be, but I am just a bit skeptical

It's a movie, it's meant to be good cinema above all.

 

[warpus]

But all of that makes it bad

 

[Broken_Erika]

Want a real vietnam movie, try Platoon or Apocalypse Now.

 

[Takhisis]

Watch The Unknown Soldier, warpus. It's a five-hour Finnish mini-series about the Continuation War, based on the book written by an actual veteran of said war.

 

[warpus]

Want a real vietnam movie, try Platoon or Apocalypse Now.

I have seen those.. but.. in the case of Platoon I am now not 100% sure.. I will have to put it on and see if it looks familiar or not

Watch The Unknown Soldier, warpus. It's a five-hour Finnish mini-series about the Continuation War, based on the book written by an actual veteran of said war.

This looks great, will check it out. Right now I've moved on to "Magical Andes" on Netflix, a completely unrelated documentary about the mountain chain from north to south