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Friday

OCTOBER 10, 2008 @ 11:48 PM | 16 COMMENTS

so... hypothetically...

you're a company that outsources widget instruction manual design to another company. that company designs a totally ugly widget instruction manual. you think oh shit that widget instruction manual is totally ugly, nobody's gonna understand how to use our widgets, next time we better do it ourselves.

should you then:
a) have your designer make a kick-ass widget instruction manual which will explain to everyone how to use your widgets and look sexy doing it, or...
b) tell your designer to copy the design of the previous totally ugly widget instruction manual, except this time make it red.

*spoilers*

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MCMLXXVI

Grand Prairie, TX

November 2006

OCT 11, 2008 12:20 AM

i picked 'A' so what do i win? i hope it's candy! ...and what are mouse shoes anyway and why do you have them?? and who references hypothetical widgets nowdays???

DigDug

Portland, OR

OLD SKOOL

OCT 11, 2008 12:28 AM

wrong. red always wins.

trocc

Chicago, IL

March 2003

OCT 11, 2008 12:32 AM

you're damn right the correct answer is a. but honestly, you pretty much lost me at "outsources widget instruction manual design". i think my brain made a grinding noise when i read that.

trocc

Chicago, IL

March 2003

OCT 11, 2008 12:57 AM

it's weird what that piece of information does. on one level, i understand the situation better knowing that. on the other, the actual mechanics involved are even more foreign to me than i thought they were before.

MCMLXXVI

Grand Prairie, TX

November 2006

OCT 11, 2008 01:01 AM

caring is sharing!
what's so cool about mouse shoes anyway?

trocc

Chicago, IL

March 2003

OCT 11, 2008 01:03 AM

so Kinto sent folks on a timewarp to 5 years ago in his journal the other day, and there's an entry of mine within a week or so of right now (but 5 years ago) where your comment is "you're weird".

SupremePizzaMan

Seattle, WA

September 2003

OCT 11, 2008 01:17 AM

PANTONE 185 BITCHES!

trocc

Chicago, IL

March 2003

OCT 11, 2008 02:04 AM

i can respect that.

geckogirl

Portland, OR

September 2004

OCT 11, 2008 08:24 AM

plus the logo should be bigger

ElizaGirl

Yemen

August 2004

OCT 11, 2008 08:56 AM

there once was a lady named Bridget
who flagrantly overused the word 'widget'
she might've been from nantucket...
um..this limerick....ah, fuck it.

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

OCT 11, 2008 09:45 AM

Hahahaha, touche.

Let me guess, hypothetical company picked 'B', because that's what hypothetical companies do. It's like in MBA courses, when they go over the "better, faster, cheaper...pick two" problem of production, they teach that "faster, cheaper" is always the best solution, even if the long-term result will be less income.

Actually, I think the bigger problem is that many managers have no long-term thinking ability. I bet they suck at chess.

Merritt

Bainbridge Island, WA

October 2004

OCT 11, 2008 02:42 PM

I'm guessing your boss picked b.

ZPO

Olympia, WA

July 2004

OCT 11, 2008 09:35 PM

While I agree the "correct" answer is "A", the most common answer in a PHB run business will be "B". The PHBs are the one's that decided outsourcing the instruction manual was a great idea. They signed the contracts, the authorized payment. If they admit the manual is a steaming pile of crap they are on the hook.

I've been there - done that - several times at various companies. The latest example ended up with the primary vendor giving the customer a rather large refund of what was paid for "training" (and I use that term very loosely). The primary vendor outsourced the training to a third-party that had less than no clue.

samling

Sumner, WA

December 2003

OCT 11, 2008 10:00 PM

why don't they listen to you? you're always right! don't they know that by now?

Remj

Seattle, WA

April 2003

OCT 12, 2008 03:27 PM

I was out of bread too. Poorly prepared in this modern day to face breakfast.

And the widget manual bit...you have your art director argue it. "Are our standards this low? As a brand, we have high standards, and we shouldn't release this crap."