0–this-is-harder-than-looks in 15 seconds.
This is standard for companies like this. Caterpillar does this as well. Cat has prepped for this before and come very close to implementing it. Last time they did it, that I can remember, was in the 90’s when the union went on strike. They don’t just turn the engineers lose on the floor, they provide training and get them able to do production.
It’s a contingency plan, and if it happens, it won’t last very long.
John Deere also did this in 2021, and they managed to immediately crash a tractor on day 1
And then sue that you were injured in a role you weren’t hired or trained.
Another fun approach is to work as slowly as possible, under the excuse of “I don’t want to damage valuable company equipment or risk downtime due to injury”.
Has this ever worked?
Has this ever not ended in the destruction of several million dollars in delicate equipment?
Don’t be mean the people making these decisions are business majors they’re trying their best.
Any half decent business major knows this is a terrible idea. They’re thinking with their stubbornness and greed, not their academic background
How hard could it be, it’s unskilled labor that anyone could do, after all, the rates they’re being paid were decided by the free market, which is infallible. They’re being paid less, so their work is easy and anyone who is paid more could do it with ease. Ever heard of “meritocracy”?
every time i have seen this story, within like 36 hours of it supposedly happening, management returns to the table with massive concessions.
it’s the panic move. everybody knows that work and responsibilities are always pushed down. disorganized workers are always getting a superior’s responsibilities fobbed off on them. the majority of times, whenever i have needed a superior to cover a simple task for me as a one-off due to an unforeseen situation–ranging from an environment of agricultural labor all the way up into the lofty halls of the academy–the manager/owner/superior fucks it up. they don’t pay attention when shown, they don’t take notes, they fail basic time management and just completely flake on doing the thing.
either they are incompetent to the tasking or the know that if they handle it well, they will be asked to do it again. people don’t rise up in organizations without learning strategies of sidestepping work or at least how to insist on better compensation and then manipulate others into getting it done.
