[Cogadh na Sith]

Sure enough, on my next visit I saw that the shop that one man had run was full of people trying to do what he used to do. From then until the business was bought and the print shop closed they never had another operator who could do it all by himself.

That's not a success story. That's failure. Nice job burning the ol' guy out, not hiring anyone and not passing the torch....

I think your story is a cautionary tale for what may happen to US DoD engineering.

[RipSawyer]

That’s not a success story. That’s failure. Nice job burning the ol’ guy out, not hiring anyone and not passing the torch....

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Actually, they did hire a young man for the older fellow to train but he couldn’t keep up so when the older man died they brought in a second trainee. Both of them together couldn’t keep up so they had people from other departments doing simple things for themselves rather than wait for the operators. I had had some training in motion studies and had worked for two years setting production standards so I noticed that the older guy had two or three machines running while he was talking on the phone. The supervisor only noticed that he was talking on the phone. The new operator could only run one machine and he had to turn it off when the phone rang or he would forget to mind it and have a paper jam. Sometimes it takes a trained eye to see what is really going on. I have known people who could do next to nothing and make a supervisor think they were the best of the bunch.