Thursday, January 04, 2007

Teamwork

It's always interesting to see how people get things done. We had just dropped off a friend at the train station and were returning home when I saw these guys doing some work. What caught my eye was the fact the exercise bike was fully assembled. Back in Canada I'm pretty sure the bike comes mostly assembled but you need to do some work to get it put together or pay someone to do it for you.

Here we can see it takes three people to wrap the bike. I the guy in the black jacket was the supervisor or foreman.


I saw him giving orders a lot during the operation. Maybe the guys in blue are the newbies.


It's kind of an oddly shaped package.


He does give them a hand at the end so he can say he helped pack it.


This whole process took about 10 minutes to complete. I wondered if they really needed the third guy. Why were we waiting around for 10 minutes in the car? Well, the driver was on the phone so he pulled over for the duration of the call. Good thinking on his part.

1 comment:

BrettCute said...

Well, some people don't have jobs Richard!! It takes like 6 people to sell you a box of paper clips at Yodobashi Kamera!!