[geeks] Rant: Tech Regression

[John Francini]

Actually, the problem they're trying to solve is "too much  
[perceived] towel usage".  By carefully metering and controlling  
towel dispensing, and making it costly in time to get more than one  
or two towels, management hopes to save money. After all, if people  
who used to use three towels now only use two, or the ones that used  
two previously now use one, then management has 'saved money', at the  
expense of convenience.

This sort of thing has been around for years; Georgia-Pacific sold  
something for years called the "Cormatic", which was (and still is) a  
mechanical towel-metering system.  I can remember such 'metering'  
dispensers in the local supermarker bathroom when I was a kid, some 40 
+ years ago.

It's just using newer technology for a time-honored purpose.

j


On 25 Oct 2007, at 14:45, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>>> We have these as well, have for about 8 months. They *really* suck.
>>> Pull, whirr, Pull, whirr, Pull.... etc.
>>
>> Ours are site-powered and seem to work well enough.  They have
>> Kimberly-Clark logos on them.
>
> Are those the ones with the off-center weights in them that turn over
> once with a very nice "chunk" sound?  Those don't seem to be  
> completely
> crap.
>
> Still, it seems a solution in search of a problem.
>
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> caused
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