roscoe
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Re: I've been sold ........ again
Peter, there is dead weight and more importantly - wasted resources in every organization.
I've personally been dealing with a few department heads for over a decade, who are so entrenched in their thinking, that they can't entertain any new ideas. They need to be shook up.
The current business hierarchy within our plant, is so bogged down with policy-process- and procedure requirements, that nothing can get done.
This needs to be shaken up.
An entire tier of lower management has been created within the last few years. If people were proficient in their jobs, these positions would not be needed. So if this new tier of lower management is successful in making others proficient, the managers will be out of a job - where is the incentive to do the job. They are not qualified to move up the management chain, most have been long term line workers that have eased into these positions by seniority and nepotism. Their main concern is protecting their own jobs. This needs to be shaken up.
Over the past 3-4 years, we have experienced huge volume increases.
We work long hours, in a cold environment, allowed to sit only 18 minutes out of a 12 hour shift.
Many of the current day to day policies are real hard to swallow. Our small town is heavily reliant on the construction industry, and has an approximate 20% unemployment level. So you would think we would have no trouble at all keeping our company staffed with hungry workers.
We employ approximately 600 at our plant. and we have had to hire over 600 people in the last 12 months just to keep up with normal attrition, retirements and such, and to replace the people that just quit because they have had enough. A large percentage of the 600 that came thru the door last year, either couldn't take the cold, the hours, or didn't have the basic work skills required. In fact, many of the new hires still don't have the skills to do the job well, but they show up everyday - so they keep their jobs. Apparently poor workers are better than no workers.
Unfortunately, now we need to train them to do higher level jobs, jobs that they will never be able to do well.
This needs to be shaken up.
To illustrate the problem:
When I was hire 12 years ago, I had to wait a full year before the company would even let me fill out an application.
Then I had to wait a couple years to move from 3rd shift, to 2nd. You needed 20+ years to get to 1st shift. Now, we have people with less than 5 months seniority, that have moved to first shift. Of the 360 people in my department, about 120 of them have less than a year on the job.
We simply can't continue on the path we are on, for very long, without suffering irreversible damage.
Peter, there is dead weight and more importantly - wasted resources in every organization.
I've personally been dealing with a few department heads for over a decade, who are so entrenched in their thinking, that they can't entertain any new ideas. They need to be shook up.
The current business hierarchy within our plant, is so bogged down with policy-process- and procedure requirements, that nothing can get done.
This needs to be shaken up.
An entire tier of lower management has been created within the last few years. If people were proficient in their jobs, these positions would not be needed. So if this new tier of lower management is successful in making others proficient, the managers will be out of a job - where is the incentive to do the job. They are not qualified to move up the management chain, most have been long term line workers that have eased into these positions by seniority and nepotism. Their main concern is protecting their own jobs. This needs to be shaken up.
Over the past 3-4 years, we have experienced huge volume increases.
We work long hours, in a cold environment, allowed to sit only 18 minutes out of a 12 hour shift.
Many of the current day to day policies are real hard to swallow. Our small town is heavily reliant on the construction industry, and has an approximate 20% unemployment level. So you would think we would have no trouble at all keeping our company staffed with hungry workers.
We employ approximately 600 at our plant. and we have had to hire over 600 people in the last 12 months just to keep up with normal attrition, retirements and such, and to replace the people that just quit because they have had enough. A large percentage of the 600 that came thru the door last year, either couldn't take the cold, the hours, or didn't have the basic work skills required. In fact, many of the new hires still don't have the skills to do the job well, but they show up everyday - so they keep their jobs. Apparently poor workers are better than no workers.
Unfortunately, now we need to train them to do higher level jobs, jobs that they will never be able to do well.
This needs to be shaken up.
To illustrate the problem:
When I was hire 12 years ago, I had to wait a full year before the company would even let me fill out an application.
Then I had to wait a couple years to move from 3rd shift, to 2nd. You needed 20+ years to get to 1st shift. Now, we have people with less than 5 months seniority, that have moved to first shift. Of the 360 people in my department, about 120 of them have less than a year on the job.
We simply can't continue on the path we are on, for very long, without suffering irreversible damage.
