Why do socks go missing

And yes. That's because there's no one reason behind any problem, be it a missing sock, an irate customer, a faulty piece of machinery or an employee's performance. That irate customer may be irate because he's had multiple bad experiences with your company, or he's using the product wrong, or he didn't read the manuals. The faulty piece of machinery may be due to lack of maintenance, or a bad part, or a material being run on it that should not be.

That employee's poor performance may be due to her lack of education, a bad supervisor or something going on in her personal life. Or other things I'm not thinking about. Problems are created by people. And people are complicated. You can't just say that something happened because of this one reason. When something happens it's always because of a multitude of things that caused it to happen. So take this lesson to help solve all of your business problems. Understand that there's never a silver bullet that will fully answers a question, resolves an issue or fixes a problem.

As a business owner, your job is to break down all of the reasons that could be behind a problem occurring. Then you need to think about those reasons, evaluate and prioritize their likely impact and then figure out the best approach to resolve the problem by tackling the more pertinent ones.

Marco Ludwig. Nicole Walters. Thomas Hughes. Mark Vickery. Always check underneath the bed to see if strays have made their way there. If the first thing you do when you get home is take off your shoes and socks, then you may have accidentally left them inside your shoes instead of placing them into the laundry bin.

If you have a significant other who always complains of missing socks, you might want to encourage them to check their shoes, too. Skip to main content The Sock Drawer. Log in Create account. Blog Menu. Shop Now! Socks have a habit of being swallowed up by other clothing, only to be purged into the wider world. Once upon a time, I was walking down a busy street wearing a sensible long skirt, when suddenly I felt a sliding sensation down the side of my leg. Mortified that it might be the gravity-non-defying unmentionables, I continued to hurry down the street hoping that no one would notice.

This is where personalisation can come in handy. Brand your socks with one of our fabulous labels and your neighbour will know where to return them provided they also know your name in the first place modernurbanliving. Nothing in the textiles world rivals the supernatural shape-shifting capabilities of the humble sock. Case in point. Strangely enough, while lamenting the loss of white socks, I rarely question why there seems to be an ever-growing supply of grey socks. Another case in point.

Or vice versa for shrinking. But in an attempt to restore balance to the universe, their arch enemies, the Sock Goblins, work hard to replace them.