Quality Control

With all the downsizing in American companies, the quality control departments have surely been eliminated. In the last six months, I have purchased two pairs of shoes from Stride-Rite: one online and one at a store. The online shoes had two different sizes in them and the store-purchased shoes were mismarked: the box indicated one size and the shoes were another size. Blame careless workers, blame the Chinese who can't read Arabic numerals, blame ourselves for not being more vigilant when we make purchases. As you can see, there is plenty of blame to go around, but what is sorely missing is quality- pride in workmanship and pride in ourselves as part of the American labor force. Remember when "Made in China" had a negative connotation that meant "cheap" in both senses of the word. Well let's not allow that to happen to our products and our workmanship. Let's produce quality work and demonstrate that we are quality workers. Perhaps, if we start caring again, there truly will be no need for quality control departments.