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On Mon, 5/9/16, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Snorkel? was; Re: [TML] Battle damage
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Monday, May 9, 2016, 5:50 AM

 On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:36
 PM, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 Afterwards, they made a bunch of
 special slabs (steel? Concrete?)

 that could be more easily attached for floods and removed
 afterwards.

 About a dozen years later we had record floods again. But
 nobody

 remembered where the slabs were. It's thought that
 sometime in the

 interim, somebody who didn't know what they were sold
 them off as

 scrap. But nobody knows for
 sure.

 A.  Someone put them in a "safe
 place" and that individual was then
 reassigned.
 B.  Someone applied 5S
 policies and scrapped them.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)

 Happened to us at work. 
 Someone went through and cleared out a bunch of low-use
 special tools and wiring harnesses.  Tossed them in the
 scrap dumpster or the trash.  Nobody noticed for 8 months
 that one of the things tossed was the 800 cr  engine
 diagnostic breakout cable, until we needed it for
 something.....

 Or the time
 we were clearing out space in a warehouse, and tossed a
 working C12 engine in the recycle dumpster, "because we
 needed the space".    $12kcr up in smoke. 

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When I was a student the student lab got new lab monitors (two) who went thru all the manuals stored there & threw out any they didn't think would be used. Luckily, I was a student aide in that lab &, when I saw those manuals in the trash, I rescued them. They were only needed for one class which was only taught for one period but they were important. A certain faculty member (who actually owned the manuals) had placed them in the lab for that class (her class) to use & she would've been really pissed off. I might not've recognized their value except that I was actually taking that class at that time!
Reminds me of the way my mother used to clean the house. One of my little sisters would follow her, holding a brown paper grocery bag. Mom would pick up a item, say "What's this?" pause for a second while she examined it, & then invariably throw it in the bag!
This taught me two things;
A. Follow mom around when she's cleaning up.
B. Don't leave things laying around the house!

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