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Mar 05, 2010 10:09

If you need to create two piles of items, one 'Good/Functioning' and one 'Bad/Faulty' on a table, what layout do you use? Top=Good bottom=bad? or something else?

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danfossydan March 5 2010, 10:15:18 UTC
I like left and right...

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oldhob March 5 2010, 10:48:32 UTC
which is which?

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danfossydan March 5 2010, 11:12:46 UTC
I'm not consitant on this issue.

I normally have more than 2 piles though.

Good and Important
Good and Trivial
Bad and Fuck must replace
Bad and who gives a shit.

The important stuff would be placed safely at the back out of the way, furthest from the door. The bad who gives a shit stuff would also be at the back too. The good trival stuff will be infront of the good important stuff. The bad must be replaced stuff willl be at the front though to remind me I have to get it sorted.

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crocodilewings March 5 2010, 10:15:41 UTC
I'll usually put the functional ones in a position which indicates they could be used, and the non-functional ones in a position which indicates they can't. I'd put a non-functional stapler on its back, for example, suggesting it was dead.

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oldhob March 5 2010, 10:31:58 UTC
How about components with uniform physical properties? Imagine uniformly coloured cubes which you perform some tests on and have to place somewhere in a restricted area.

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crocodilewings March 5 2010, 11:04:30 UTC
Then the functional ones are stacked congruently and the nonfunctional ones are heaped in a messy pile.

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theozzardofwiz March 5 2010, 10:44:33 UTC
Good: Carefully in a box, within reach.

Faulty (assuming scrap): Carelessly in a box, also within reach, that then goes for disposal.

"Within reach" generally implies left/right, with my test rig in the middle. If the items are delicate enough to need testing, I don't want to have to stretch and risk dropping one or dunking it hard enough on the table to stress it. Why yes, I *have* tested HDDs, how could you tell? :-)

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oldhob March 5 2010, 10:49:38 UTC
Which side is bad? Left or right?

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riksowden March 5 2010, 11:28:14 UTC
Left.

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theozzardofwiz March 5 2010, 12:42:05 UTC
In the absence of signals: left good, right bad - but I'm left-handed

If I have boxes: whichever way they landed, which is not pre-meditated

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interbadger March 5 2010, 16:42:49 UTC
Good/Functioning on the table.

Bad/faulty, on the floor.

If I am stuck with having to have it all on the table, i think good would be at the edge of the table nearest me and bad would be tucked away at the back.

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