Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Efficiency My Foot

We’ve engaged an Six Sigma/Lean Blackbelt to investigate how important stuff gets done and to find a way to do it faster. He’s supposed to be an efficiency expert.

An in-house lunch was ordered. The food was spread out buffet-style inside the meeting room for our 12.15pm meeting.

At 12.30pm, he had not shown up.

At 12.45pm, we started making calls to his mobile.

Finally he showed up at 12.50pm, 35 minutes late. This annoyed all 6 managers present in the room. The guy was dressed like a fishmonger, had not shaved and was clearly not too pleased to be participating.

He explained that he would be identifying chokepoints, documenting the valuestream and finally coming up with the process maps of our current and future states.

One of my team’s managers started explaining the background of the situation. After around 15 minutes, he stopped.

“How are you going to identify chokepoints, document the valuestream and come up with the process maps of our current and future states? You don’t seem to be jotting any of this down”.

Upon hearing this the Six Sigma/Lean Blackbelt efficiency expert exclaimed “That’s right, I’ll be back in a minute” and left to look for a pen and paper.

Leaving us all speechless in the room at his incredible efficiency.

good grief.

i’ve met better efficiency consultants. where did you guys hire him from anyway?

Wow. Which body part do I have to donate to get in on this scam?

I’m guessing “brain”….

not called Con Sultans for nothing.

Lowest cost consultants is it?

even worse.

Internal blackbelt expert. He’s one of our own.

And he’s training others in the black art of efficiency.

There is no hope here. Runnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

haha.

sometimes it’s so amazing to see how ppl can con their lives for a living with so little skills.

Naeboo>> Hey !! dun talk abt cowboy like dat on his blog.. not very nice

very freguently in mncs, as long as you talk big and are good at curry favouring, you can be anything you want, including management. sad but true.

That’s life for you.

thats why getting into MNCs so much better.even when applying for credit cards u need to be working there only one mth. ceh

Hmm perhaps another case of conflicting theory and reality practices?

Attended a presentation delivered by a supervisor in the 6-sigma field from the MNC Deere & Company. The cycle of system and checks seem pretty solid, theoretically. Motorola was supposed to have save some over 16billion just from this system.

Or maybe it’s just this guy’s attitude problem lah…lol

He’s internal staff? As in, your company hired him?!

-incredulous-