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{{a|work|}}An accident waiting to happen.
{{a|work|}}An accident waiting to happen.


You have a process that is so mind-numbingly [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=Dreary dreary] — [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=Citigroup_v_Brigade_Capital_Management sequencing interest payments on billion dollar revolving credit facilities], for example — that the posse of [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=School-leaver_from_Bucharest Bratislavan school-leavers] you have engaged for the purpose cannot be depended on to carry it out without occasionally ticking the wrong box, whacking the wrong mole, or wiring an eight-figure principal repayment to the wrong distressed creditor.
You have a process that is so mind-numbingly [[dreary]] — [[Citigroup v Brigade Capital Management|sequencing interest payments on billion dollar revolving credit facilities]], for example — that the posse of [[School-leaver_from_Bucharest|Bratislavan school-leavers]] you have engaged for the purpose cannot be depended on to carry it out without occasionally ticking the wrong box, whacking the wrong mole, or wiring an eight-figure principal repayment to the wrong distressed creditor.


What to do? Easy: engage ''another'' squad of Balkan undergraduates for the even more soul-gouging chore of checking the output of the first lot.
What to do? Easy: engage ''another'' squad of Balkan undergraduates for the even more soul-gouging chore of checking the output of the first lot.
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Because that will definitely work, right?<ref>It won’t.</ref>
Because that will definitely work, right?<ref>It won’t.</ref>


The [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=JC JC] has moaned elsewhere about our [https://jollycontrarian.com/High%20modernism modernist] confusion over the fundamental division of labour between the [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=Meatware meatware] and the [https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php%3Ftitle=Machines_are_fungible machines]. If you want a job being done quickly, cheaply and reliably, and it’s important, ''get a machine to do it''. If it is worth investing in not just one low-paid call centre worker to carry out the task, but two, it is certainly worth investing in a machine that can do the work without checking it.
The [[JC]] has moaned elsewhere about our [[modernist]] confusion over the fundamental division of labour between the [[Meatware|meatware]] and the [[Machines_are_fungible|machines]]. If you want a job being done quickly, cheaply and reliably, and it’s important, ''get a machine to do it''. If it is worth investing in not just one low-paid call centre worker to carry out the task, but two, it is certainly worth investing in a machine that can do the work without checking it.


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