Confessions from quality control - The Frontera factory

Confessions from quality control - The Frontera factory

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dmitry

341 posts

161 months

Thursday 30th June 2016
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This is the quickest Kickstarter campaign I've ever seen I think, all done in one day. Great job Mr. Fox and I'm looking forward for the book.

Tonsko

6,299 posts

214 months

Thursday 30th June 2016
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A grand in one day. I reckon you'll make a few bob out of this!

dmitry

341 posts

161 months

Thursday 30th June 2016
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The Crack Fox said:
This is quite mad! How come so many people want to read my drivel? I'm astounded, thank you all so much!

Those asking about addresses for delivery and so on, I'm not 100% sure how it works (this is my first kickstarter), but I can message you via the KickStarter system for an address nearer the time. It still has more than a month to run, and I can't publish until then.

Keep on pre-ordering. If there's money in the kitty afterwards I'll get a round in, or something. beer
A bar tab, and the author reading excerpts without hesitation (or deviation or repetition) after a few pints. Now that's something I'd even board a flight to participate in.

thatsprettyshady

1,820 posts

164 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Mr. Fox, just a thought.

It might be worth contributing to this : http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences/

They accept submissions from anyone, and since I'm addicted to reading anything and everything on that site I feel I'm qualified to wager that a few humorous tales of your experiences would fit right in and give the book an even bigger kickstart (!). They don't seem to mind contributors plugging their own blog/book/twitter so it could be a good bit of easy publicity?

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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thatsprettyshady said:
Mr. Fox, just a thought.

It might be worth contributing to this : http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences/

They accept submissions from anyone, and since I'm addicted to reading anything and everything on that site I feel I'm qualified to wager that a few humorous tales of your experiences would fit right in and give the book an even bigger kickstart (!). They don't seem to mind contributors plugging their own blog/book/twitter so it could be a good bit of easy publicity?
I think that's a great idea. I love the "real life" stuff on Cracked - often very interesting & funny.

Balmoral

40,659 posts

247 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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anonymous said:
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I think this is true for most of minimum wage, agency sourced, zero hour contract working Britain, whether it be factory work, warehousing, courier or other driving jobs, care-workers, retail, supermarkets to coffee chains. It's just appalling.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Balmoral said:
I think this is true for most of minimum wage, agency sourced, zero hour contract working Britain, whether it be factory work, warehousing, courier or other driving jobs, care-workers, retail, supermarkets to coffee chains. It's just appalling.
Not necessarily, especially when people realise that without the agency staff the operation would be up poo creek ...

I would suggest it's an attitudinal problem within certain organisations and, ironically, the Unions may actually to be blame rather than management .

Edited by mph1977 on Saturday 2nd July 15:41

WFL

64 posts

128 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Pledged - hurry up and get it printed! read

rallycross

12,744 posts

236 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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WFL said:
Pledged - hurry up and get it printed! read
Me too and looking forward to a good read and a good laugh! Good luck with it.

Abbott

2,338 posts

202 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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bern said:
5S is so last year, it's all about 6S now!

I work in manufacturing, not automotive, and have never seen it implemented properly despite millions being spent on training.
6S, I presume you mean 6 Sigma, is not going to add much if you do not have a solid foundation of 5S

Abbott

2,338 posts

202 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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The Crack Fox said:
Abbott said:
bern said:
5S is so last year, it's all about 6S now!

I work in manufacturing, not automotive, and have never seen it implemented properly despite millions being spent on training.
6S, I presume you mean 6 Sigma, is not going to add much if you do not have a solid foundation of 5S
The chapter in my book about production terminology said:
Six Sigma - The six sigma goal for manufacturing is to drive quality to less than 4 defects per million parts built. The Wall Street Journal once estimated that nearly 60% of all corporate Six Sigma initiatives fail to yield the desired results. Probably because it’s far easier to say to a workforce “less than 4 defects per million, please, chaps” than it is to actually roll your sleeves up and achieve it.

DFSS – Design For Six Sigma. This is a set of methodology related to Six Sigma (see above). It is not to be confused with DFS, the buy now offer ends Monday sofa warehouse chain situated in Darley Dale, Measham, Droitwich and Grantham."
smile
Understood - just saying that if you are not delivering the foundation basics of 5S you will never move on to the more complex stuff.
Great thread

CharlesdeGaulle

26,089 posts

179 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Ordered. Can I have a signed copy please? wink

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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How do I order multiple copies?

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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The Crack Fox said:
Tyre Tread said:
How do I order multiple copies?
Just pay double the amount (ie 1 copy is £8, 2 is £16, postage is £2 regardless) and I'll pick it up. smile
Three ordered (£30 = 3X (£8+ £2 postage))

NickCW

295 posts

129 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Will the price be the same on Amazon when it goes 'Live'?

Looks like a great book and I definitely want a copy!

RDB

334 posts

178 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Ordered. Looking forward to reading this smile

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Saturday 2nd July 2016
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The Crack Fox said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Ordered. Can I have a signed copy please? wink
Actually, yes you can.
are they all signed?

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Saturday 2nd July 2016
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Tyre Tread said:
The Crack Fox said:
Tyre Tread said:
How do I order multiple copies?
Just pay double the amount (ie 1 copy is £8, 2 is £16, postage is £2 regardless) and I'll pick it up. smile
Three ordered (£30 = 3X (£8+ £2 postage))
Just tried to reply to the message you sent me via Kickstarter but it bounced back confused

Yes I paid £30 for three - assumed no discount for postage for multiple orders.

Signed copies would be nice ! smile

jurbie

2,339 posts

200 months

Saturday 2nd July 2016
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Not sure if I've done this right but I've pledged £16 via the £8 or more box in the hope that this will get me 2 books.

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Saturday 2nd July 2016
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jurbie said:
Not sure if I've done this right but I've pledged £16 via the £8 or more box in the hope that this will get me 2 books.
I think there's a £2 postage charge for one book - not sure about multiples but I added the extra anyway.