Darryl King’s blog ireckon

Been traveling again this week. And it always amazes me when you are waiting for your bags how crazy we all are and completely self interested, which ultimately leads to the most inefficient system I have seen.

Basically the turntable of bags is getting ready to roll the bags around and everyone pushes right up to it to try and get to their bag.
Facts: There is not enough room for everyone to get in the front. Bags come out randomly and don’t care if you are pushed to the front. People not at the front push in front of people leaving room to let others through to get their bags and block that route.

Of course there are probably a number of psychological theories about this which are probably very relevant. To me it just smacks of the me first type mentality that shows up in our current society from time to time. That in itself is not so bad people do have to look after their own interests, but in instances like this the process offers no benefits to anyone.

Solution: Yellow line 1 metre back from turntable (like US international ones), and half a dozen corridors so people seeing their bag coming can walk in get it and walk out. Hmm we could do this ourselves if we could just naturally find a way to collaborate on it without people having to have a “hughsie loses it” moment. I guess though that is why the Americans paint the lines - they figured out we won’t do it on our own so we need to be herded, despite the best intentions of positive thoughts.

Me i would just like to be able to get to my bag on its turn around the table without a squeeze-fest. Much easier to carry it on the plane i guess.

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Strange phrase good meaning! Basically at ireckon it is a process we try to live by. We are an information services company, with a goal of utilising business information profitably using technology and keeping the internet simple. So it is pretty important we actually live by that rather than just sell it.

What does it all mean though. Well if every dog food company made its staff eat it’s own dog food, you can bet they would have the best and most humanly edible dog food around. What we do and try to make sure our staff do is to eat our own dog food. This month there is a message about blogs, and what they mean. For many of you that is pretty ho hum, you already have your own blog, or are suffering from blog info overload. What we do know is there are plenty of you who hear about it but still are totally unsure what and how you could use a blog. We make our staff have a go, even if they don’t really fit into the typical mold of bloggers. We have blogs about one of our staffs stages of being pregnant, technology highlights, music… loads of things.

Importantly it helps us in keeping up with what we help you do. We use e-newsletters (ezines) ourselves, we use dynamic data tools to run our business. Many of you may not know but about 75% of our business runs on web based tools we have written in house and have been using for 6 years.

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