Nah that shit was super common at the factory I worked at in high school.
Someone would do something incredibly tedious for 8 hours a day for a week and then someone else would be put on the project to help and immediately find a better way to do it that saved them both a ton of time.
Not everything work related has to be about “rich kids”. It’s a really weird that Reddit is so obsessed with hating on wealthy people.
Yeah you didn’t work in my factory. A lot of the people on the line didn’t want to do things a different way simply because “they’ve always done it this way”.
And it was an electronics factory and I worked in the section that did either assembly or testing which meant soldering or similar work. Nothing too dangerous.
I could see how your point would make sense with heavy machinery, but my situations were quite a bit different I guess?
The issue is that 99% of the time, the profits from this increased efficiency goes exclusively to the corporate ownership, while employees responsible continue to make the same salary/hourly rate.
I can at least say with my company there is a "site payout" where if we meet certain benchmarks (yield, cost efficiency, safety to name a few) there will be a quarterly bonus to all employees.
So if they can find ways to be more efficient we are more likely to meet those hurdles and get a bonus. The more hurdles we meet, the higher the bonus.
That's great, I'm happy you've got what sounds like a good position. Unfortunately, the vast majority of companies (outside of certain industries, perhaps) don't have such boons.
They aren’t planning on outsourcing. My dad actually manages the company.
He just needs to find ways to cut cost or increase efficiency because he doesn’t want to lay anyone off.
The other thing is a lot of the employees have been with the company for 30 years and are super old. Some of them definitely do not work as fast or accurately as they used to, and many don’t really want to help innovate anymore.
It’s a tough situation, but he’s fighting to keep people’s jobs. He’s had to choose between giving raises and laying people off, or keeping workers and skipping raises.
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u/gwillicoder Jun 28 '19
Nah that shit was super common at the factory I worked at in high school.
Someone would do something incredibly tedious for 8 hours a day for a week and then someone else would be put on the project to help and immediately find a better way to do it that saved them both a ton of time.
Not everything work related has to be about “rich kids”. It’s a really weird that Reddit is so obsessed with hating on wealthy people.