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Old Jul 4, 2001 | 11:26 am
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siliconengineer
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Efrem:
There are two sides to the statistics.

On the one hand, 20 percent of the people send in 80 percent of the complaints. That's the old 80-20 rule:
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aka Pareto principle.

On the other hand, 80% of the time, its the fault of the system, not the individual. This includes inadequate staffing/high workload, overly long hours, and not empowering the employees which may appear to be the fault of the individual to the outsider, but which are really management shortcomings.
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