Over the past several months we've had many new faces at work ..... former employees from a couple of the company's plants that have closed down and transferred to ours. Occasionally one will mention or comment on the way we do things with words like, "We didn't do it that way." ..... And I'm always tempted to reply with, 'Well just who's plant is still operating and who's is closed?' Maybe their ways are part of the reason? Like I heard of one of these persons taking a break after lunch, farting around and preparing their lunch box and various belongings to go home. When questioned what he was doing and why he wasn't working, the person replied that they used to let them do that at his other plant. I'm thinking: What the hell! What's to prepare? Just pick up your stuff and walk out the door!
So I'm thinking that attitude was part of the reason for their failure. Did any management types or supervisors pay attention to what was going on? Why would being away from your work area for such a reason even be allowed? I'm not a big management tool and even I think that's a huge waste of time.
Others who came over, possessing much seniority and walking into lift truck driving jobs seemed genuinely surprised when asked to get off their lift truck occasionally and perform small amounts of basic manual labor. When I encountered this the first time, I was like: 'Really, you had someone do this for you over there? Why would it even be an issue? That chunk of wood on the floor that you keep running over ..... you were expecting someone else to pick it up for you?' I may be exaggerating a tiny bit but not by much. That was the type of attitude encountered.
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