tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post2347966317468419526..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: ExpectationsAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-84342982321479344292022-05-26T22:11:18.641-04:002022-05-26T22:11:18.641-04:00There are perhaps 15% of the population that is br...There are perhaps 15% of the population that is broken. Damaged and just crazy, and its these people who cause most of the violence. They are the most desperate members of society, and in your country are pushed to the wall. <br /><br />In most civilized countries this is understood, and measures to reduce the levels of desperation are rolled out, to help these poor unfortunate people. This works, you should try it sometime. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-72907142183090906672022-05-26T19:47:22.033-04:002022-05-26T19:47:22.033-04:00Aggie - keeping one quote of yours above whole for...Aggie - keeping one quote of yours above whole for my next post.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-39435518568094666592022-05-26T19:46:38.746-04:002022-05-26T19:46:38.746-04:00Uncle Bill - I am reminded of the Dilbert cartoon ...Uncle Bill - I am reminded of the Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-headed boss is proud they met the safety goal of only 26 workplace injuries last year. "We had to injure five people in the last week to make the goal."Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25488499577576163852022-05-26T17:28:55.683-04:002022-05-26T17:28:55.683-04:00Chances are this man was in his right mind when he...Chances are this man was in his right mind when he did this; bad mental health doesn't need to be a factor in someone's decision to do evil. If he couldn't get a gun, he would have found some other way to kill people--maybe a homemade bomb or something like that. <br />The Mad Sopranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310574598406502941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33584907325481698202022-05-26T17:26:29.143-04:002022-05-26T17:26:29.143-04:00Aggie said: "In a way, incidents like this br...Aggie said: "In a way, incidents like this bring to mind the safety culture we try to emplace within industry. You'll never have a perfectly safe workplace, especially when humans are interacting with heavy machinery that's constantly moving. But you can improve upon it, and in fact that's the philosophy that we strive to put into practice, an environment of continuous improvement."<br /><br />Boy, your company was a lot more sensible than mine. We would constantly get lectures and training, telling us that they expected us to reduce incidents and injuries to zero, even though that is impossible in a practical sense. So, we would bump along with our usual zero or one or two reportables per month, but then when, by random chance, it hit three in a given month, we would have lockdowns, more lectures, etc. Of course, the next month it would be down to the normal one or two, and they would declare victory.Uncle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08666166923236919131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61412986792106245222022-05-26T14:34:32.366-04:002022-05-26T14:34:32.366-04:00"Was the school fortified along the guideline..."Was the school fortified along the guidelines developed post-Sandy Hook? Was the officer stationed at the school, trained? Had his training been refreshed or upgraded recently? Was there an Incident Plan in place? Are the teachers and counselors at the High School trained in dealing with troubled teens, and same questions about training refreshing/upgrading? What is the High School's reporting structure on subject teens? How is it communicated?"<br /><br />A better question is why the fuck we should need to worry about any of those things at an elementary school.<br /><br />An even better question is why school shootings, which kill a few dozen people a year on average, get more media attention than obesity, which kills thousands weekly. I guess nobody wants to be the bearer of fat news by telling Americans to quit shoveling disgusting shit into their cheeseburger holes.Ganzirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846299071370650169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47770298279474904462022-05-26T13:09:19.313-04:002022-05-26T13:09:19.313-04:00Yes. When there is a society-wide problem, the fi...Yes. When there is a society-wide problem, the first thing that is required to improve matters is honesty and good faith in communication, usually the last things to become apparent - and even then, in deficit. The biggest task in creating a proactive safety culture is gaining acceptance that this is the priority at the outset. Once people buy in, the culture of continuous improvement takes wing. Ironically, to work safely one has to first <i>feel</i> safe in being able to communicate their observations and ideas without fear of criticism. Shame is a very powerful emotion.Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-11330730751926838892022-05-26T12:50:11.116-04:002022-05-26T12:50:11.116-04:00Great things to ponder in relation to what i hope ...Great things to ponder in relation to what i hope to post. I have a long one in draft that I may just abandon, perhaps mining it for its few intelligent bits. I now have a thoroughly irritated post forming in my head. It's my own fault, perhaps. I listened to people and clicked links that I knew had a high-percentage chance of saying something stupid - and they did.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22718374787854026582022-05-26T11:34:46.622-04:002022-05-26T11:34:46.622-04:00In a way, incidents like this bring to mind the sa...In a way, incidents like this bring to mind the safety culture we try to emplace within industry. You'll never have a perfectly safe workplace, especially when humans are interacting with heavy machinery that's constantly moving. But you can improve upon it, and in fact that's the philosophy that we strive to put into practice, an environment of continuous improvement. In my career, it enabled teams to work through complex offshore drilling projects with thousands of heavy crane lifts and abnormal subsurface formation problems, in some cases without a single recordable incident. But to do this, you have to be ruthless about measuring results and reporting, about maintaining an open conversation without shaming and bullying, and by addressing & correcting identified problems and hazards immediately.<br /><br />Was the school fortified along the guidelines developed post-Sandy Hook? Was the officer stationed at the school, trained? Had his training been refreshed or upgraded recently? Was there an Incident Plan in place? Are the teachers and counselors at the High School trained in dealing with troubled teens, and same questions about training refreshing/upgrading? What is the High School's reporting structure on subject teens? How is it communicated? <br /><br />As many are saying, long-standing and seemingly obvious behavioral problems that result in violence will not be ended by trying to move guns, or swords, or crossbows further out of reach at the climax. But these situations can be vastly improved upon - and I'll bet a careful look at the way these facilities are equipped and managed, and the way these troubled teens are ignored, will present a ton of opportunities. You'll never eradicate the problem, but it can be made a lot better. Let's see politicians and administrators put our money where their mouth is.Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16643181707409651432022-05-26T11:10:04.773-04:002022-05-26T11:10:04.773-04:00What shocks me isn't that there are mass shoot...What shocks me isn't that there are mass shootings, but rather that there aren't dozens every day. Look at how many people commit suicide; look at our murder rate; look at the sheer number of disaffected people out there, many of whom have access to weapons (not just guns); doesn't only a few 'news-worthy' shootings per year seem like inexplicably few in a country of 330 million inhabitants?Ganzirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846299071370650169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-18661688529132026042022-05-25T23:03:02.607-04:002022-05-25T23:03:02.607-04:00I do not remember the book I was reading, but I do...I do not remember the book I was reading, but I do remember it was in the mid-80s. The author made the statement that 10% of people are likely to become addicts. It was the 10% that stuck with me. Since then, I've decided that a decent way to live is to expect that at least 90% of the people I meet are Good People. Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51285024317082595122022-05-25T22:45:47.694-04:002022-05-25T22:45:47.694-04:00You make a point of arming everyone. Then feed the...You make a point of arming everyone. Then feed them perhaps the most toxic culture on the planet, that idolizes guns and their use.<br /><br /><br />What could go wrong?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com