Interesting, and IMO a fairly balanced article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nment-44m.html
Sounds about right to me. In my lifetime, I've seen a lot of utterly insane and bizarre things done by managers frustrated with their own failure and incompetence. I was nearly
fired once, for
FIXING a machine that had run for days and not produced a single useable part.
Why?
"Because we could not afford the downtime."
Ummmmm, how is running directly into a scrap bin for
FOUR DAYS wasting thousands of pounds of materials, better than spending three hours to fix it, so it would
produce something we could use???????
Another excellent example was the day a plant manager made us shut the department down and polish all of the diamondplate on the machines.
Why?
He was angry that we were standing around,
watching the equipment run and not fixing it..........
Ummmmmmm.....It was running great. There was NOTHING to fix...
BTW, the following morning, when he went over the previous days efficiency report, he exploded and wanted us all written up.......because we had four hours of downtime across the board.
No shit, Sherlock. That's about how long it took us to make the diamondplate pretty.
Dave