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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Chris Farley knows something about "guarantees"
I was watching one of my favorite movies of all time last night. Perhaps you remember this gem from Tommy Boy:
Tommy:
Let's think about this for a sec, Ted, why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer:
Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy
:
Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box 'cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer:
Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy:
'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
[chuckles until he sees that Ted is not laughing too]
Ted Nelson, Customer:
[impatiently] What's your point?
Tommy:
The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.
Ted Nelson, Customer:
But why do they put a guarantee on the box?
Tommy:
Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of sh*t. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
Ted Nelson,
Customer:
[pause] Okay, I'll buy from you.
Tommy:
Well, that's...
Tommy, Richard Hayden:
...What?
And in the end, Tommy's character sells the half million brake pads needed to keep his family's company going. Of course in a perfect world all struggling companies with quality products and good-hearted employees would be able to pull themselves up with a stroke of luck and some strategic use of road flares as Chris Farley's character does in the movie. But that's not the reality. Point being that unless you can get your employees to deliver the experiences that customers most want, you're no better than a guarantee fairy. Are your employees living up to the promises and guarantees your company makes?
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 02:50:03 PM
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