Live Blog: No way out...or is there?

It almost seems like common sense - if there's an emergency in your business, train your people to know all egresses - not just the obvious one.

I'm sitting at Bentley College at a Triumvirate Environmental Industrial roundtable, and Rick Foote is talking about emergency response planning. He gave a great example of something so obvious, but most of us would never think about:

When an emergency happens, most people go to the only exit they know of - we are creatures of habit. Now, take away that one exit and what happens? PANIC!!!

He suggests performing regular training drills that not only clearly defines all egresses, but randomly takes one away during the drill.

Yeah, that's a little excessive...

My sister had a broken toilet. The arm that pulls the chain when you flush decided it no longer wanted to be part of that scene anymore and needed to be replaced. So, I went to Lowes' Hardware and picked up a new arm. This is the only thing I purchased from Lowes' - 1 toilet arm, $4.18. 1 thing. No gum. No nails. Just the toilet arm. This is the receipt that printed out after I used the self-checkout:


Look at the size of that thing - who needs that much paper for a $4.18 purchase? It's enormous! It's taller than Mike Dale, Justin Raymond and John Menzigian:
It's even taller than this freakish-ly tall British man:


The question is, how many rolls of register tape do they go through each day on each system? Talk about socially unconscious - with environmental responsibility at the forefront of business concerns, how come nobody at Lowes' has addresses this issue? Why isn't it double sided? Why didn't the computer ask me if I wanted a receipt?

Target is another abuser of register tape - I'll buy a pack of gum and a soda and get my receipt, a gift receipt and a .10 cent off coupon for Juicy Fruit. Sigh.

At least I know what I'll do with my receipt: