If only 99.9% is good enough then:

Lady Joyce · Post by **Lady Joyce** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:25 pm

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped per year.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled per hour.
2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
Two planes landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport will be unsafe every day.
315 entries in Webster’s dictionary will be misspelled.
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect
cardholder information on their magnetic strips.
103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year.
3,056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of three sections.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:27 pm

That's just depressing!

Unless it's my return the IRS flubs!

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:28 pm

Griff wrote:That's just depressing!

Unless it's my return the IRS flubs!

Yeah, but if they make a mistake saying you kept too much of your earned money . . . you STILL have to fork it over, probably with penalties for being late. Good luck proving they made a mistake, and good luck recouping all the accountant and attorney fees if they did.

On the other hand, if they make a mistake saying you could have kept more of your earned money, when later on they figure out it was a mistake . . . you STILL have to fork it over, probably with penalties for being late. Good luck proving they made a mistake, and good luck recouping all the accountant and attorney fees if they did.

Still I like the 99.9 % thing - my veterinarian friend and I compare 'shop' notes quite a bit, and one of the key differences he enjoys is that 99.9% success in his field would be awesome, vs. a bad reputation in many fields of health care. A 99.0% in health care would likely get you drummed out of practice in many areas! I try to remind my staff of that when they are all anxious because some patient who is in a hurry wants them to rush through something.

"Job done Right - Job done Cheap - Job done Quick = Pick any two...!"

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:45 am

Reality in numbers can be quite sobering LJ!

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:15 am

In Pharmacy as well, 99.0% just wouldn't be good enough. Would you want to be that 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1,000 who is either diagnosed incorrectly and dies from it or has a prescription filled wrong and dies from it?

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:35 am

FORGOT ONE....
AND ONE IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE.....

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:36 pm

Lady Joyce wrote:...Two planes landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport will be unsafe every day...

The silver lining of that news is that they might be full of commuting Congresspersons!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:13 pm

I could extrapolate those stats and see where I might possibly marry for the third time

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:01 pm

piller wrote:In Pharmacy as well, 99.0% just wouldn't be good enough. Would you want to be that 1 in 100 or even 1 in 1,000 who is either diagnosed incorrectly and dies from it or has a prescription filled wrong and dies from it?

I'd like for this to be a sporting event or a reality show.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:30 pm

Oh well, "you know what" happens.

-----------Sixgun

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