Total Quality Management

I am here today to ruffle a few theoretical feathers if I may. I am going to propose something so shocking that the good folks down at craigslist wouldn't let me post it in the rants and raves section for fear of e-riots, e-embargos, and e-bricks-through-e-windows.

"Life is simple."

There!! I said it, somebody had to say it... so when I go for my mid-morning walks through the park, I hear the birds asking - "with 4 guys living in a flat, how on earth do you keep it neat and tidy, it must look like the Maginot Line after it filled with squatters when the French decided to pretend they never built it." - cute fuzzy bird in tree

After a sly smile and another lap around the park, I had my answer - TQM.

Total Quality Management in its fundamental form is a revolutionary way of thinking for the new era of managers, to bring conscious thought and awareness to the quality of ALL processes within a system. Accountability - ie instead of making a factory that produces canned tuna fish by setting up the assembly line with the right pieces and hoping the delicious, mercury-tinted wonder fish comes out perfect every time, it is taking conscious thought for every process to ensure this result. Make sure the cans are perfect, the light saline solution is perfectly balanced, the fish were perfectly massacred and hung, the timing of each station, the quality, the look, the feel, the taste, the smell... you get the idea - when you make sure that every last input to meet an end is perfect... the chances of having a perfect product is greatly increased - simple!!

So where am I going with this???

Approximately 17 days 23 hours and 14 minutes ago we implemented project TQM in an effort to keep our flat visiting-mums-friendly.

Lets discuss the results together. Although the evidence against certain indivuals is overwhelming, for training and ego purposes we have kept the names of the accused in our minds and not on the internet.