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By: Jim
 a reply to Ice Cold Beer Guy Fired, Fans Fight Back with Facebookby Jim on Jul 22, 2008 - 04:32 PM read 50 times Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1755#comment-153616 |
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Will…There are two sides to every story.
Imagine you are married with a five year old daughter. It’s a nice Sunday evening in October. You, your beautiful wife and your daughter are returning home from an apple orchard, where you picked apples all day. Your daughter got ill, and your wife is in the back seat with her. You are driving down a road, when suddenly, you see a large SUV at high speed, jump the median strip and hit you head-on.
You’re okay–you have an airbag and wore your seatbelt. Your wife had no airbag and neither did your daughter. Neither will ever walk again, and your daughter is on a respirator for life. The SUV driver is of course unhurt, because he wore a seat belt, had an air bag, and of course, the mass of the SUV was way greater than your car, so the force of the impact was born by your car and your family.
Later, you find out that the SUV driver was coming from a football game, and was drunk. He drank beers at a tailgate prior to the game, and he drank during the game, because the servers there didn’t follow their company’s procedures about serving alcohol. Also turns out that the guy is 20–able to drive, but not to drink.
So now, Will, does that change your point of view about the need to follow procedures?
If not, what if the 20 year old was your kid brother, and he’s in jail for vehicular manslaughter.
The worker knew the rules and although you don’t realize it, you put your trust in him and his peers to follow the rules, and help keep the streets you drive on, bike on, or run on, safe.
Thoughts?
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