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To: Darren McCarty

Good luck running any kind of production with workers who show up when they feel like it.

When I started my last factory job I worked 12 hours per day, 7 days a week for the first 4 months before seeing my first day off. Its also a big part of the reason I made foreman inside of a year and a half.


8 posted on 12/21/2011 6:19:08 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek
Generally 12 hours a day is what it takes to keep up. Weekends are also in the mix. Lucky the kids are grown up. Not complaining, lots of Californians lining up to take my job.

Need another Ronald Regan to open up the job market to set things back in the workers' favor. 16% unemployment makes an employer cocky.

12 posted on 12/21/2011 6:27:57 PM PST by caltaxed
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To: cripplecreek

That’s a factory environment. Totally different than an information technology environment. If i’m a programmer for instance, and can be just as productive working at home as I can at the office, then why not let me work elsewhere? And whatever hours I want.

It’s about productivity...getting done what you’re expected to get done. It increasingly doesn’t matter WHERE you do it, or how many hours it takes you to get it done. If you can bust your hump and crank out 8 hours worth of work in 4 hours, then why shouldn’t you reap the rewards of a few hours of free time?

And after 25 years of working in an office environment, the amount of wasted time I’ve seen from people who are supposedly “working” 10 hour days is pretty significant.


15 posted on 12/21/2011 6:32:03 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: cripplecreek

Don’t you know? The Gen-Y or whatever expect “someone else” to actually MAKE things from the raw materials of the earth. In their little fantasy worlds, oil just jumps out of the ground as ready-to-use gasoline, trees turn themselves into paper, pulp, furniture, and food just falls from heaven, prepackedged of course.

The vast vast vast majority of people have zero idea of how anything is created. They are able to live very very well drawing pretty powerpoint charts, talking loudly, cutting “deals”, shaking hands, and getting to know the “right” people.


17 posted on 12/21/2011 6:38:42 PM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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