Is is ok to kill a whale to save two pandas?
Answer then add your moral dilemma and so on and so on.
The moral dilemma we all face, all the time.
You just measured a "hot" part that everyone has been hounding you to measure. They want to ship it today. Everything is in spec except one feature. It is out by 0.0001in (~3um for you metric folk). You try to re-measure it, but it is what it is. It's been a long day and you want to go home. You know from experience that it has been out of spec even more than that in the past and the customer accepted it, but the work instructions are to document the nonconformity to initiate a day long process that will ultimately end in the part being shipped.
Do you "tweak" the number and go home, or do you stick around a little longer and document the nonconformity and quarantine the part
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The moral dilemma we all face, all the time.
You just measured a "hot" part that everyone has been hounding you to measure. They want to ship it today. Everything is in spec except one feature. It is out by 0.0001in (~3um for you metric folk). You try to re-measure it, but it is what it is. It's been a long day and you want to go home. You know from experience that it has been out of spec even more than that in the past and the customer accepted it, but the work instructions are to document the nonconformity to initiate a day long process that will ultimately end in the part being shipped.
Do you "tweak" the number and go home