I’m sorry you are working in such conditions, I hope you get better management that actually understands how much data one person can process.
I’m not sure how your story is at all relevant to what I said.
I don’t have a driver’s license, I don’t live in the US, I don’t need one. The lead in gasoline example was just the first thing that came to mind that fit a “technology that is profitable and useful, but kills people” description. Please pay attention to the road while driving instead of perfoming mental math exercises.
I would also like to ask you to think about what exactly you are arguing for right now, as I’m starting to think that our understanding of the value of human life differs quite a bit.
I hope you get better management that actually understands how much data one person can process.
Cynically, management doesn’t care if we read or understand the material, only that we click a button that documents (records) that we have “been trained on it” and acknowledge that.
In reality, after decades of exposure to the same basic concepts, most people who are “trained” on this material do know - vaguely - what’s in the documents, and the real function of the training is to remind you that the procedures are there and when they are applicable to what you are doing (rarely, in my job function) then you should pull the official, current, procedure from the official document repository and reference that as a work instruction while you do what it applies to. Part of why the procedures are in such bad shape is that people rarely do exercise them like that, so flaws remain un-noticed for long stretches of time.
I hope that one day, the world can openly accept that people are not perfect executors of written, spoken, or graven in stone instructions and that that is O.K. and we can still do a good job with our flaws. Some of the procedural safeguards are implicitly acknowledging that without coming right out and acknowledging that. I suspect that day will come after I retire, if ever, and I may work for another 30 years.
Human life is more valuable than money, property… but suicide is a reality of the human condition. It’s not something that has been meaningfully improved with modern psychology or medications. It’s worse among the poor but significantly prevalent across the wealth spectrum. Anything that interacts with people is going to interact with suicidal people.
Next time you are in a train station, count 100 people as they pass you - same effect. If you’re in a major station, look out across the big hall full of people, estimate how many hundreds of people you are looking at, and take in the reality of what 1 in 100 actually means.
I’m sorry you are working in such conditions, I hope you get better management that actually understands how much data one person can process.
I’m not sure how your story is at all relevant to what I said.
I don’t have a driver’s license, I don’t live in the US, I don’t need one. The lead in gasoline example was just the first thing that came to mind that fit a “technology that is profitable and useful, but kills people” description. Please pay attention to the road while driving instead of perfoming mental math exercises.
I would also like to ask you to think about what exactly you are arguing for right now, as I’m starting to think that our understanding of the value of human life differs quite a bit.
Cynically, management doesn’t care if we read or understand the material, only that we click a button that documents (records) that we have “been trained on it” and acknowledge that.
In reality, after decades of exposure to the same basic concepts, most people who are “trained” on this material do know - vaguely - what’s in the documents, and the real function of the training is to remind you that the procedures are there and when they are applicable to what you are doing (rarely, in my job function) then you should pull the official, current, procedure from the official document repository and reference that as a work instruction while you do what it applies to. Part of why the procedures are in such bad shape is that people rarely do exercise them like that, so flaws remain un-noticed for long stretches of time.
I hope that one day, the world can openly accept that people are not perfect executors of written, spoken, or graven in stone instructions and that that is O.K. and we can still do a good job with our flaws. Some of the procedural safeguards are implicitly acknowledging that without coming right out and acknowledging that. I suspect that day will come after I retire, if ever, and I may work for another 30 years.
Human life is more valuable than money, property… but suicide is a reality of the human condition. It’s not something that has been meaningfully improved with modern psychology or medications. It’s worse among the poor but significantly prevalent across the wealth spectrum. Anything that interacts with people is going to interact with suicidal people.
Next time you are in a train station, count 100 people as they pass you - same effect. If you’re in a major station, look out across the big hall full of people, estimate how many hundreds of people you are looking at, and take in the reality of what 1 in 100 actually means.