While I was thinking about the story of this boy and read about dyslexia I worked at a plants wholesaler. My job there was to walk with danish carts (You can’t see it in this picture but they stand on four wheels.) with plant and place the in other danish carts that would go to the customers.
Apart from the fact that it’s a lot of walking (I lost 15 kg in 6 month) you also always looking for the next place to put a plant.
Becomes a nose
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They use a kind of matrix system. Numbered paths with numbered carts. Both the number of the path and the number of the card are painted on the floor so they are always on the same place.
So depending on what customers order Path 10 Cart 12 isn’t always present but if it is, it’s always the second card on the right side in path 10. (In path 1 till 10 the first few cart numbers are missing because they needed that space for the canteen.)
The strange thing is that most of my colleagues don’t use this system. The groups of cart for customers are also numbered. But there are 40 carts in a path and a customer can order a minimum of 1 cart and a maximum of 40 carts. So the order of the numbers changes from day to day and people have to search a number of path before they find the right group number.
I never understood why people didn’t use the much easier matrix structure instead of walking past three or four or five paths to find the right group number.
Since I started working there in Februari 2006 I had a lot of discussion with people about why they didn’t use this simple system. It wasn’t till May before somebody remarked that the problem with the matrix system was that the numbers where painted on the floor and the carts were placed on top of the numbers so you couldn’t see them.
I still didn’t understand why this would be a problem because you can see the numbers in your head, can’t you? No they can’t. At first I thought that that might be because most of my colleagues aren’t very bright, but actually they are. Most could be called misfits but like most misfits they are very bright people who just don’t want to act the way that is expected of them.
It’s just me. I see pictures in my mind of thinks that aren’t there.
About a week after I started to work there I understood the system. So I went to an empty part of the hall to look at the numbers. The cart numbers are the same in every path. So after looking at it for one time I knew the whole system by hart.
I thought everybody did.
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