GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/05/recall-alert-2014-chevrolet-silverado-and-gmc-sierra-2015-chevrolet-tahoe.html Fortunately it's not that many.
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Terry I can assure you that most all of the workers want to build a good product.
However until quality takes precedence over product out the back door, we are going to continue to see this. It is Management that is calling the shots not the workers.
I have been told by area managers that they will sign off on a calibration so the line does not shut down. Managers receive quarterly bonuses for meeting production quotas and larger bonuses for exceeding them. Think they want to lose 10 to fifteen minutes of production for quality calibration? Nope no way, no how, not today mister. Go calibrate someone elses machine, I'll sign your damn book. Now go away! I found a way around this, I send out E-mails listing the line and machine or gages signed off on and send it to all the upper management. Very seldom do I get turned away anymore, get a lot of nasty looks however. But it works for me and my fellow workers.
BTW tame thing happens at GM and Ford day in day out. The Japs are not any different either.
Don
However until quality takes precedence over product out the back door, we are going to continue to see this. It is Management that is calling the shots not the workers.
I have been told by area managers that they will sign off on a calibration so the line does not shut down. Managers receive quarterly bonuses for meeting production quotas and larger bonuses for exceeding them. Think they want to lose 10 to fifteen minutes of production for quality calibration? Nope no way, no how, not today mister. Go calibrate someone elses machine, I'll sign your damn book. Now go away! I found a way around this, I send out E-mails listing the line and machine or gages signed off on and send it to all the upper management. Very seldom do I get turned away anymore, get a lot of nasty looks however. But it works for me and my fellow workers.
BTW tame thing happens at GM and Ford day in day out. The Japs are not any different either.
Don
