I was on a TimesArrowVaporWave walkabout recently in Dallas, TX when I encountered the AT&T Cable guy. He was working on a rainbow of wires in a control box on a heavily trafficked street. I greeted him and he responded with a smile which I could see clearly because he wasn’t wearing a mask. I cherish that moment provided by my AT&T Cable company.
Contrariwise, from my perch in Portugal, I noticed a Spectrum Cable guy working on a smallish communications box on the North side of Building M. He was trying to add service for a self-employed customer, his mask covering his chin. (Question, is this a new fashion statement for BEARDS in Comms?)
So I asked him: “Is your company still requiring you to wear a mask?”
“Yes” he answered sheepishly.
“But the mandate is gone now.”
“Well 70% of the customers still wear masks.”
“Wow, really? I’m shocked” was my response.
At Precision Castparts (TBO), I served as a technician for the Engineering Department until I was laid off during a season of Mandatory Overtime – that’s right – a mandate. Go figure. I digress.
This position kept me working in tandem with the SPC (Statistical Process Control) which I found dry, but intriguing – Sigma and all that. So now I’m intrigued again by statistics. I have to ask the question, and maybe a mathematician or SPC whiz would be willing to step up and offer an answer. 🙏
Here it is:
If 70% of Spectrum cable customers are still living under a mandate that no longer exists, and AT&T technicians are not, how many of those who don’t watch cable TV are still living under the mandate? Have an IPA or a good German beer and pretzel with salt and mustard while y’all punch those numbers into an old Texas Instruments calculator. (and don’t you dare wear a mask while you do that)
Then regardless of what that TI calculator spits out, return my Titanium slag please. It’s a rainbow too, and it’s always been mine.
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