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Observation#1
People have kids, and kids need to be supervised or baby sat in some manner.
Observation #2
babysitting is expensive
Observation#3
Kids like to, or have a tendency to destroy things, and themselves.
Observation #4
Well designed products need to go
through rigouous tests to see if they are safe, and that they are durable.
Idea:
Multinational corperations should offer free babysitting services where your children are put in a higly supervised enviornment and encouraged to play with products as roughly as they like and get there destuctive impulses out before they get home, the corperations would in return be getting invaluble information on weak points in their products that break easily, could need aditional safetyproofing.
Of course, on handing over your baby to them you would have to sign a waiver acknowledging that the liability of the service is expresslly limited to the the amount of one roll of unexposed film, (developing included) even if such loss or damage results from the fault, deliberate act, or negligence of the daycare center.
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That's cynical. Croissant. |
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Like that episode of the Simpsons where they privatized the public school and the company secretly turned every classroom into a focus group, complete with a 1-way blackboard. I love the Simpsons. Croissant for the memories. But then fishbone for sort of copying. Summing to neutral. |
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I wonder how many "can be choked on by children under three" items, would be discovered the hard way. |
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Observation #5
This idea will attract many fishbones. |
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Observation #6
Using < br > (without the spaces) gives you a line break, allowing you to compress your text layout a bit. |
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Drats! you (sort of) caught me Worldgineer, yes i am ripping off the Simpsons, my original idea was to rip off the "deface a famous painting" idea posted recently but change it so it was a place where corperations encouraged you to try and destroy to test their durability, but i rememebered that simpsons episode and changed my idea to add the bonus of child care.
I though I could get away with it all by dazzleing you all with my many profound observations. |
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Corporate daycare facilities have been a popular employee perquisite since the seventies, so there is nothing notably original in that portion of your idea. If you are going to limit the childrens' playthings to items that the corporation manufactures, then I predict that most law firms, accountancies, chemical manufacturers, etc, are going to see an exodus of the personnel that otherwise would have happily benefited from this perk. After all, who wants their child to grow up tainted by having played with Arthur Anderson tax returns and annual reports? |
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Or audit reports which are so obviously false that the firm thinks of changing its name from Arthur Anderson to Pamela Anderson? |
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Ok how bout whack-a-mole style carnival games where the moles are replaced with cd players and fine diningware, the game would be free and smaller objects could prove there durability? |
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