DISCHARGE wrote:Rated X wrote: And the error was made by mindless “drones” known as factory workers, simply following protocol.
That comment is rude and insensitive. Those "mindless drone" are people. Most of them exploited and doing what they have to in a society of corrupt Communism currently acting more like Capitalism for the wealthy. they dod what they do to survive. We take advantage of China due to the veil of silence. If those people try to stand up for their rights they can be jailed or have tanks shoot at them.
Kind of breaks the will or the "mindless drones" when you have little to no course of action.
Rated X wrote:This was out of Funpubs realm of control to prevent.
How so. You set parameters for the work you want done and how you want it done.
They got lazy and missed a step for the assembly line or the factory screwed up.
In any case if you are paying attention to the product you are in business to sell to customers worldwide and a mistake happens, it is your fault. That's the point of "Management".
Rated X wrote:This is some real petty s**t. Be happy that the problem is with some silly guns and not the figure. If you really need the guns to fit on his waist that bad, sand down the stupid “right” and “left” tabs and they will fit just fine. The handles keep them from going in too far.
Some people don't like to ruin an exclusive collectors piece, no matter how seemingly small to some.
You took my comment completely out of text.
When standard operating procedures prevent you from being allowed to “think outside of the box”, anyone including myself can become a mindless drone. When my boss tells me to do something, I get the damn job done and don’t question the way I was told to do it. My boss is an egotistical prick. Maybe their boss is one too so they dont say s**t. I love it when my boss is wrong and it all blows up in his face because of the way he wanted things done.
With that being said, do you think the people who assembled or packaged these things are really TF fans ? I seriously doubt it. They were probably women or teenagers who don’t know the difference from “right” or” left” guns because:
1. They weren’t told there was a difference.
2. They don’t own a Generations Blurr.
3. The Drift instructions in the package don’t even acknowledge the guns existence.
4. Brian Savage himself wasn’t physically present at the factory in China to oversee the process.
Furthermore, the standard operating procedures for the Drift mold does not include guns, so nobody got lazy. Nobody in that factory, even the manager is at fault here. Funpub dropped the ball and forgot to deliver a memo which could have been translated in Chinese for the workers to follow. This group of workers may not have been the same group that assembled Blurr a year ago to know the change in protocol. Remember this is a Drift figure with an added bonus, not a Blurr figure.
And when Brian Savage made this added request for 2 additional guns, he probally assumed they would get it right. So they goofed. Do you scream at a child when he makes a mistake ? Do you scream at women that you pay 10 cents an hour ? I doubt it because both the factory and Funpub got what they paid for with outsourced labor. Maybe we didnt, but at least we got a cool figure with no real problems.
