Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >> There's nothing wrong with efficiency testing,
> it's the matter in which they are carried out.
>
> Quite agree. The FRA probably bears a great deal
> of the blame for the failure quota mentality.
> About 30 years ago, there was a story circulating
> that the UP (the old UP) ran 2,000 tests one year
> and found no failures. The FRA took exception to
> this, saying that it was statistically impossible
> (which it is). So the RR's got into a "find
> failure" mode. I've never been able really to
> accredit the story, but the statistical
> impossibility aspect is very real.
>
> Story which circulated on the SP Western Div in
> the 1980s:
>
> Lacey (of Lacey's raiders) to Colonel Sanders upon
> answering all questions wrong after being stopped
> in a test: "You're just about the dumbest son of a
> @#$%& I've ever run into."
> Col. Sanders: "Well, you're in deep s**t then
> because I'm the best on the Division."
> Colonel Sanders was so nick-named because he bore
> a striking resemblance to the Colonel.
> Good story, but unverified. What has been verified
> is that Lacey insulted another engineer in a
> similar fashion up in Oregon, and the guy decked
> him. He was pulled out of service for two weeks
> and then put back without further "discipline".

why did W.J.Lacy set up the "Rubber Room" where crews were to report before service ay Yuma.