Some of you may have seen this before as it has been around a long time. However, I thought it would serve as a reminder to all of us how important it is that that we strive to always do our best and give our best.
If 99.9% is good enough then….
- 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
- 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year
- 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour
- 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
- 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers
- Two planes landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport will be unsafe every day
- 315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled
- 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year
- 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
- 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
- 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat
- 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly
- 3056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
Rachel
WOW…never thought about it that way! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing this Rachel! I’m with Michelle…WOW!
I think this is a great reminder for us to give 100% everyday! Love it Rachel! 🙂
I would be pretty upset if I bought a flat drink, BUT I would be even more upset if my pacemaker was put in wrong?!?!?! Haha