[factoryrat]

I work for the railroad now, and at least you only have to deal with two manufacturers, and only a handful of models now. It’s only a matter of what parts they have in stock at the warehouse, and how bad you need that power to build a train.

[Rodamala]

Lean warehousing was the bane of our existance. There would be ascreaming match once or twice a month because rather than carrying inventory of normal parts, the Material Manager would expect us to apply labor to go steal parts off of recent inbounds... then apply the labor to fixingthe defect... then while trying to make all the promised releases by 04:59 (that dayshift left up to nights to get), we would have to inshop units into the system just to show the material request against the unit... it got to the point that the Technical Director's office had every deskdrawer crammed full of micellaneous parts as we would just charge out 2 parts when there was inventory and squirrel them away so we could be able to "sell" units at zero hour.

I miss that job as much as I do not.