GM Recall, Stop driving it
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Multimatic Inmetmatic:
Mexico. So much for USA workers. But they are American, as good as men and women anywhere, and it is still usually a management problem, as Don says. Somewhere is a worker that did not do his/her job, but it is primarily managements responsibility to catch it and know why... and then correct it.
It works like this:
Workers row the boat. They carry the whole load, do all the manual effort, all the sweating and suffer all the bleeding blisters and provide the first tears of all the whimpering that goes on and on. Management calls cadence and mans the tiller. The entire boat only runs at managements pace and everyone hopes they know where, and how direct they are steering and cries foul when they don't. Stockholders (boat owners) try to profit from their investment as much as they can, naively learn to always expect so, and whine when the market downturns. Consumers (cargo recipients) try to get the product as cheap as possible and wail when it cost too much.
Through all the hand-wringing, the pecking order at the trough goes:
1)management first
2)stockholders next
3)then consumers
4)and finally workers.
And during all this, everybody belongs to a union of some kind:
Workers organized into labor unions after business owners (stockholders) formed corporation unions. Management unites boards to support their good-ol'-boy networks and consumers unionize government committees... each trying to gain leverage over the other by banding together. Even the lawyers that run the show belong to a union that's call the state bar association.
It all apparently works. Gotta love capitalism. Except when it's run-away-capitalism by the dice shakers on Wall Street.
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I liked mtofell1's remark about, "Did they get a bad batch of welding 'glue?'". I thought it funny. With all the modern vehicle, boat and aircraft construction using new adhesives, I think it was spot-on humor.
Wes
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Geeze wrote:
"The components were supplied by Multimatic Inmetmatic." All of the auto companies use outside vendors so this could happen to any of them.
Multimatic Inmetmatic:
Mexico. So much for USA workers. But they are American, as good as men and women anywhere, and it is still usually a management problem, as Don says. Somewhere is a worker that did not do his/her job, but it is primarily managements responsibility to catch it and know why... and then correct it.
It works like this:
Workers row the boat. They carry the whole load, do all the manual effort, all the sweating and suffer all the bleeding blisters and provide the first tears of all the whimpering that goes on and on. Management calls cadence and mans the tiller. The entire boat only runs at managements pace and everyone hopes they know where, and how direct they are steering and cries foul when they don't. Stockholders (boat owners) try to profit from their investment as much as they can, naively learn to always expect so, and whine when the market downturns. Consumers (cargo recipients) try to get the product as cheap as possible and wail when it cost too much.
Through all the hand-wringing, the pecking order at the trough goes:
1)management first
2)stockholders next
3)then consumers
4)and finally workers.
And during all this, everybody belongs to a union of some kind:
Workers organized into labor unions after business owners (stockholders) formed corporation unions. Management unites boards to support their good-ol'-boy networks and consumers unionize government committees... each trying to gain leverage over the other by banding together. Even the lawyers that run the show belong to a union that's call the state bar association.
It all apparently works. Gotta love capitalism. Except when it's run-away-capitalism by the dice shakers on Wall Street.
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I liked mtofell1's remark about, "Did they get a bad batch of welding 'glue?'". I thought it funny. With all the modern vehicle, boat and aircraft construction using new adhesives, I think it was spot-on humor.
Wes
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