{"id":28113,"date":"2012-06-03T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/queue-psychology.html"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T02:39:25","slug":"queue-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/queue-psychology.html","title":{"rendered":"Queue psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the world of operations management, starting with queue theory.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who spends a lot of time in line, I certainly agree with pretty much all of these:<\/p>\n<p>1. People get bored in lines.<br \/>2. People hate waiting longer than they expect.<br \/>3. People <i>really<\/i> hate unfairness \/ queue jumping.<\/p>\n<p>Yup. \u00a0And how companies manage that (through the myriad queues we\u00a0navigate\u00a0in life) has a lot to do with how we feel about them and our experiences with them.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fslate%2Farticles%2Fbusiness%2Foperations%2F2012%2F06%2Fqueueing_theory_what_people_hate_most_about_waiting_in_line_%2F142660799.jpg.CROP.article250-medium.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/operations\/2012\/06\/queueing_theory_what_people_hate_most_about_waiting_in_line_.single.html'>What People Hate Most About Waiting in Line<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLet&#39;s say you and your roommate have a little side business baking rhubarb pies at home and selling them on a street corner. Folks love pie, and you&#39;re having trouble keeping up with demand. But you c&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6EC9fU6nW9B' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6EC9fU6nW9B' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the world of operations management, starting with queue theory. As someone who spends a lot of time in line, I certainly agree with pretty much all of these: 1. People get bored in lines.2. People hate waiting longer than they expect.3. People really hate unfairness \/ queue jumping. Yup. \u00a0And how companies manage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/queue-psychology.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queue psychology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42119,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/and-on-queue-were-just-down.html","url_meta":{"origin":28113,"position":0},"title":"And, on cue, we&#8217;re just down&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-May-14 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, on queue, we're just down to a Tornado Watch.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/rolling_out_the_short_red.html","url_meta":{"origin":28113,"position":1},"title":"Rolling out the (short) red carpet","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Apr-07 1:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Something new with United Airlines this trip: the Mini-Red Carpet.\u00a0 United's top-tier frequent fliers, plus First Class, and Business Class passengers, get their own separate queue for boarding, so...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/ual-redcarpet.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":37941,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/the-story-of-the-queue.html","url_meta":{"origin":28113,"position":2},"title":"The Story of the Queue","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jun-13 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"All. 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