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To: ChicagoConservative27
About 55 years ago, it was known as "dogging the job": I worked a swing shift at Lockheed in Burbank and the shift was mainly populated by minorities and they happily taught me the basics of pretending to make parts, to carry a job order around to make supervisors believe I was actually doing something, and to drag out a work order so we could get overtime hours. They also gave me training in stealing tools, and making "G-Job" (Government Job) parts on the machines for our own use -valve covers for our engines and I even saw one guy machining Thompson Submachinegun receivers!

My own sense of integrity kept me from doing any of that stuff (I was a Marine, recently returned from Vietnam) and I was grateful for my $17/hour job, but it went on and on around me. Needless to say, we were all union members (closed shop) but the management never caught on and the union didn't care a whit. Our L-1011 airliners were more expensive than the DC-10.

Now Lockheed-Martin doesn't make airliners anymore. No suprises.

19 posted on 07/04/2024 9:44:20 AM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Chainmail

Thank you for your service


21 posted on 07/04/2024 9:50:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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