Originally published at: Missing scissors cause massive flight cancellations and delays at Japan airport - Boing Boing
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I have a suggestion to keep this from reoccurring:
It’s foolproof, I tell ya! No potential terrorist could steal them because they wouldn’t have any cutting tools to defeat the strin…
(Never mind.)
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I guess flying with scissors must be even way more dangerous than running with them
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“We recognise that this occurred as a result of insufficient storage and management systems at the store,”
Japanese for “the store manager is a complete screw-up.”
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Shops airside in airports must be forced to use only these:
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The scissors were broken by the rock. Both are under the paper.
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All the more reason to complete this, then:
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What do they use in restaurants if they, you know, need to cut something up? Do restaurants have to lock up and account for their knives?
Chopsticks and occasionally tiny spoons.
Depending on how long the store had been operating; it might actually be down to mostly not being a screw up.
“Don’t lose your scissors” is one of those problems that’s trivial enough that you can get away with just winging it most of the time, unless particularly disorganized; which makes it tempting to just wing it because what do you mean a formalized custody tracking system and unique serialization over a pair of scissors? At which point you are kind of screwed if you do manage to lose your scissors and don’t have a systematic procedure to fall back on.
It’s the problems that look at least as nasty as they are, and are at least somewhat nasty, that present less temptation to substitute ordinary competence for well thought out formal process.
That said, probably sucks to be them right now; even things that an auditor wouldn’t deem worth nitpicking under normal circumstances have a habit of looking real bad in a post-incident report.
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