Question

You are on a jobsite to oversee the fabrication of your design. You find that you a missing a critical component and set off to order one right away. The head wainwright, who is your liaison with the fabricators tells you to make sure and order 3 instead of 1 and quotes the old adage, “1 to keep, 1 to loose, and 1 to use.” You now know where your missing component has gone

A) Demand an investigation and fire the culprit B) Shrug it off as the cost of doing business. C. Fire the entire unionized team D. Order the 1 part and give a verbal warning to the wainwrights.

Answer 1

First things first, Important point to note here is that the part missing is critical to the fabrication process so it requires special attention of the person tasked to look after its contingency.Still it has gone missing.This reflects carelessness on the part of head Wainwright.

Now as far as adage is concerned it seems to me that the head Wainwright has carelessly misplaced it(1 to lose), so in this situation one would be inclined to carry out an investigation and fire the Wainwright, but situation in hand requires to get the job completed first.Thereby i think we should go with option D. Order the missing part for now and verbally warn him to be careful from there on.