As my wife was reading her “Fundamentals of Management” book she came across a section that posed the question, “In your opinion, is 99.9% effective enough?”  I relpied, “Yes.”  She proceeded to give me several reasons why I should think differently and I though maybe I could find a few more via Google.  I did.

This list might be a little dated, as it seems to have been first published in the mid-90′s, but it is funny none-the-less.

• Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
• 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.
• 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes.
• 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.
• 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
• 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.
• 14,208 defective personal computers will be shipped this year.
• 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.
• 2,488,200 books will be shipped with the wrong cover in the next 12 months.
• 132,412,800 cans of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than one of the 268,500 defective tires.
• Two plane landings daily at O’Hare International Airport will be unsafe.
• 3,056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.
• 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
• 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
• 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips.
• $9,690 will be spent every day on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
• 55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months.
• 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
• 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
• $761,900 will be spent on tapes and CDs that won’t play.
• 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed each day.
• 315 entries in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of English Languagewill be misspelled.

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