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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to fix the noon bugs. If something

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Speaker 1: is obviously wrong, stop what you are doing and fix it.

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Speaker 1: That way, you won't have to live with the annoyance anymore. So.

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Speaker 1: In the latest update to an app I use, a

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Speaker 1: certain glitch made it inefficient. A search to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to fix the issue revealed that the problem isn't

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Speaker 1: what the settings or that broad category known as operator error.

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Speaker 1: It is a problem with the latest version of the app,

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Speaker 1: and it appears the folks in charge know about it,

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Speaker 1: but are not in a rush to fix it. It

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Speaker 1: is a known bug. Sometimes we just have to decide

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Speaker 1: to live with these things or not. I guess there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of apps in this world, but it

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Speaker 1: can be really annoying to encounter the same problem again

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Speaker 1: and again. So if you find a bug in an

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Speaker 1: area where you can control things so that it becomes

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Speaker 1: a known bug to you do something about it, you

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Speaker 1: will probably save a lot of time and frustration. I

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Speaker 1: am sure if you think about it, you can identify

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Speaker 1: at least a few known bugs in your life. The

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Speaker 1: doorbells don't work in my new house. We are installing

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Speaker 1: a system, but in the meantime we missed deliveries and

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Speaker 1: had some folks just leave yikes. Now there are signs

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Speaker 1: on each of the broken doorbells with a note to

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Speaker 1: call my cell phone number. The known bug is getting fixed,

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Speaker 1: and in the meantime there's a workable patch. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: are part of a meeting that starts late every single

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Speaker 1: week because several participants have another meeting immediately beforehand that

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Speaker 1: always runs over. Maybe run a retail store where people

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Speaker 1: are constantly asking you to retrieve the petit pants from

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Speaker 1: the top shelf because no one stopped to realize that

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Speaker 1: anyone who is petite can't reach the top shelf. Many

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Speaker 1: of us have a strong tendency to make do I

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Speaker 1: will admit that I was standing by the window watching

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Speaker 1: for service people rather than realizing I should make a sign.

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Speaker 1: But this can waste a lot of time and make

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Speaker 1: people very frustrated. So if there is something that doesn't

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Speaker 1: work right in an area under your jurisdiction, fix it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it will take a little time, maybe it will

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Speaker 1: take a little money, maybe it will take a little creativity,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to be worth it to solve the

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Speaker 1: known bug. So work with the meeting convener to move

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Speaker 1: the start time fifteen minutes. Move with the petites to

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Speaker 1: where petite people can reach them. If there is not

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Speaker 1: a clear fix to a non bug, ask colleagues and

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Speaker 1: customers for suggestions. What do you suppose we can do

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Speaker 1: to fix this? You may be surprised at the creativity

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Speaker 1: of the suggestions you hear. When we set the expectation

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Speaker 1: that we fix bugs, then things start to run more smoothly.

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Speaker 1: A culture of solving problems starts to spread. Instead of

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Speaker 1: accepting bugs, we start asking ourselves and others, what do

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Speaker 1: you think we can do to fix that? Now? I

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Speaker 1: am not suggesting that you go hunting for bugs. Some

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Speaker 1: people are experts at finding problems that aren't really problems.

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Speaker 1: What I am suggesting is that you deal with the

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Speaker 1: bugs that you can't avoid seeing. When a bug repeatedly

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Speaker 1: interferes with your team's productivity or mars your teams, or

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Speaker 1: your customers experience, or your personal life, deal with it.

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Speaker 1: The first time I didn't have to watch for a

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Speaker 1: truck because the person called me from the door. It

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Speaker 1: was incredibly relaxing. I was glad to have done something

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Speaker 1: about the problem, and I'm sure having a real doorbell

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Speaker 1: will be even better. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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