re: #162 Targetpractice

Here’s the thing: When a worker gets sick, you send him home and bring in another worker. When a machine goes down, you spend hours waiting for the tech to come out, then find out that he needs parts that he’ll need to spend another couple hours to grab, before finding out that it’s going to be down for longer because the parts are on back order and you’re at the back of the queue.

Or have another stored (paying for space) onsite to replace it as fast as possible, so basically a waste of space and upfront money for that. Or paying for a hot shot replacement being available if needed, thus paying a retainer for this service. Or having a bunch of spare parts to fix the only machine you have, and possibly paying a tech to be onsite all the time or on retainer (paying monthly) to be available in some SLA criteria. These people that think things can happen without an initial outlay and recurring expense are crazy.

I have had people come back at me after I made this argument saying “I have a coffee maker that i have had for years and it still works fine with not much maintenance”. So I ask, “Do you make a few hundred pots per day with it?”. A business will make more coffee in a day than an average individual may make in a year through the machine. You can’t run a business like you run your home any more than you can run government like you run a business.