Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
How hard can it be to design and make a toaster that actually works?
Last week our poor abused toaster finally gave up the long struggle, and shuffled off to the great appliance store in the sky.
"No problems" I thought, we have loads of Nectar points; and duly sent off for a nice shiny, new 4 slice jobby.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the primary use of a toaster, is to errmm well, toast bread. To my mind, this means all of the bread. We (like a lot of people) buy Warburtons sliced loaf. Not exactly out of the ordinary you’d think. But does it fit in the slots on the toaster? Does it buggery.
You've got two choices, stand the slices on end and have toast with an uncooked strip at the top; or try and jam it in lengthways and have toast with a carbonized crust.
The slots on the thing are 10mm too short. 10mm! Either the designer is an idiot, or some tightfisted, beancounting bastard in the accounts department decided that shaving 10mm of the length would reduce the cost by 17p a unit and make "financial sense". Never mind the fact that the damned thing now doesn’t work….
Personally I think the people responsible should be dragged into the company car park, have 10mm removed from the soles of their feet with a bacon slicer, and then be beaten to death with their own toasters - It’s the only language they understand.
Still, the missus is happy, at least it's the right colour.
Last week our poor abused toaster finally gave up the long struggle, and shuffled off to the great appliance store in the sky.
"No problems" I thought, we have loads of Nectar points; and duly sent off for a nice shiny, new 4 slice jobby.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the primary use of a toaster, is to errmm well, toast bread. To my mind, this means all of the bread. We (like a lot of people) buy Warburtons sliced loaf. Not exactly out of the ordinary you’d think. But does it fit in the slots on the toaster? Does it buggery.
You've got two choices, stand the slices on end and have toast with an uncooked strip at the top; or try and jam it in lengthways and have toast with a carbonized crust.
The slots on the thing are 10mm too short. 10mm! Either the designer is an idiot, or some tightfisted, beancounting bastard in the accounts department decided that shaving 10mm of the length would reduce the cost by 17p a unit and make "financial sense". Never mind the fact that the damned thing now doesn’t work….
Personally I think the people responsible should be dragged into the company car park, have 10mm removed from the soles of their feet with a bacon slicer, and then be beaten to death with their own toasters - It’s the only language they understand.
Still, the missus is happy, at least it's the right colour.
