kshansen
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- Retired Mechanic in Stone Quarry
And you know as well as I do Ken, that's total and utter BS. It's put out simply to keep the company PC in our current litigous world. But when push comes to shove every company is looking for the lowest production cost/ton or whatever unit they use to measure their production. Everything else is secondary to that, and any company executive who says otherwise is lying through his teeth ..... IMHO.
Well where I worked it was felt that the metric they used to determine "productivity" was tons per man/hour. That was the only explanation anyone could come up with to explain why so many times an outside contractor would be hired at an hourly rate several times that our people would be getting even at 1 1/2 OT rate to do a job that our people had done several times in the past. If our people did a job hours worked would show on a spread sheet. If contractor did a job no hours would show just total cost of repair.
One glaring example is a bearing replacement on a screen. Brought in the outside contractor to do the job while our people were on layoff. They did the job with more people than we would have but we had to supply the crane and operator anyhow. Bosses bragged about how fast the work was done. Then when the first samples were taken and mill man had to use a piece of welding rod to open drain hole he was told that's just normal break in on a new spherical roller bearing! Contractor was called out a few times due to oil leaking. Each time it would be leaking just as bad the next day or bolts would be coming loose. Finally our people talked the boss into letting us work on it. Disassembled and cleaned everything spotless, scrape off gobs of silicone and old gasket that was under the silicone. Reassembled with new seals and gasket. Samples after that came back good and last I heard not a sign of a leak or loose bolt. Did anyone from upper management come out and say "Great Work Boys!"? Guess you all know the answer to that!