Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:30AM
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It only matters, what is the marginal cost to the door vendor. Their profit margin is razor thin. They make those doors by the millions and sell them as a commodity. So yes even a few cents is too much.
We proposed putting a fuzzy-logic controller into a Maytag washer. Maytag said, any controls had to come in under 75 cents including sensors and actuators, for them to make it up in pricing. We couldn't manage that back then (the processor chip was several dollars) so no deal. Because washers are a commodity from the manufacturer viewpoint.
Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
by mattmanser on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:34AM
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This isn't a counter point, all you're doing is proving my point. The consumer is the person who's being an idiot here, not the manufacturer. You can buy bathroom stall doors without a gap.
But who buys a door which doesn't close the gap properly? That costs $1 less? In their multi-million $ buildings?
Only Americans.
It's not blather, I'm not sure where you buy wood, but if you think the wood of bathroom door even makes up 1% of the cost of building a bathroom... And 0.01% of the cost of losing an employee to something so trivial as a horrid bathroom.
Honestly, this sounds like a US-specific problem, in the UK none of the offices I've worked in have had a 'gap' in the cubicals. Nor the schools or public buildings or public toilets.
Reading these comments are comical at how a whole country can collectively do something so simple so wrong. No judgement, every country has silly quirks like that!