Quality and Craftmaship - Jim Shepherd ??

[Pathfinder]

Tom, you are a genuine 'wordsmith'......that part about the animal crackers cracked me up.
I agree 100% though, for the most part.
The disruption of production work areas for a quick 'tour' by the 'big-wigs' used to nearly grind us to a halt for an entire day.

Oddly, it happens in the white collar world too. Used to work for a bank. At Christmas, they all but beat us to clean up our cubicles, nothing on top, no papers, had to have our suit coats on (it was a while ago, no business casual in those days), etc. etc. Shut down almost 200 people's productivity for half a day waiting for the three "Wise Men" to make their annual Christmas-time visit to the IT Dept.

They spent all of 45 seconds in our area.

[alfsauve]

TYPO TYPO TYPO.

I got it straight from Jim Shepherd.  The sentence should have read:

"It's obvious that EACH of the folks working at their bench...."

Jim also said:  "Unedited version ran in place in the Shooting Wire.
They LOVE their work. And I don't blame 'em."

[Hazcat]

Thanks Alf.  I had an idea it was a typo.  That was why I posted it.  I thought Jim might see it and fix it.

[tombogan03884]

TYPO TYPO TYPO.

I got it straight from Jim Shepherd.  The sentence should have read:

"It's obvious that EACH of the folks working at their bench...."

Jim also said:  "Unedited version ran in place in the Shooting Wire.
They LOVE their work. And I don't blame 'em."

That may be what they tell the "Gun Writer", Truth is they are glad to be employed. My post was based on six years in that industry.

[PegLeg45]

I'm glad it was a 'typo' and I'm glad those fine folks like what they do.

I liked my last job and loved the type of work I did...but I hated the corporate BS that went with it that took away from the job itself.
I still agree with Tom.
If you think a person 'really loves' their job, offer substantially more money to do another job.
I know, some would stay, but most would go to the higher paying job.
I did it. I left a job that I really loved doing (really) for a job (with the same company) that I hated, for double the money.
I hated the job, but I did it for 5 years because the money was good.
 

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[TSB]

That may be what they tell the "Gun Writer", Truth is they are glad to be employed. My post was based on six years in that industry.

I've got to agree with Tom in most respects.

I've worked in manufacturing and engineering since my discharge from the miltary back in 1979.  First was with GM because my father worked there.  He did it for the money, though I'm sure he had pride in what he did, he NEVER drove a GM product.  In my short stint in "Mundane" manufacturing, I was bored, overpaid and simply puting in the time to collect a pension.  Thankfully they laid me off and forced me to do something else. 

Since then, I've done what I had to do to feed and house the family because it was the right thing to do.  To list everything I've done to make a living would be boring but suffice it to say, manufacturing in the USA is a dying industry and extremely unfullfilling unless your on the creative side of the business.  The 1000 pound gorilla that is my main customer does 50 million dollars out of our facility and 240 million of the same machinery in China!  That Gorrilla is General Electric and we are but a small part of their billions in sales annually.

It's great that those people in AR are working but I would bet the annual income in that state isn't anywhere near the national average!  On that note, I would take a pay cut to actually be able to make money at the things I love to do......

Update, Arkansas is at the bottom of income ladder at #49, only Mississippi is lower!  It's probably due to the Clinton Library

[deepwater]

How many people can't wait for the weekend to be over so they can get back to the job they love?

ME! ME! ME!!! I love my job!! I work for three months and slack for three and then go back to work for three..  gotta love a job that pays good, takes you around the world and gives you more vacation time in one year than most folks get working for the same company for 20 years. Sorry, don't mean to rub it in, just had to put that out there. yes I do love my job, but I also bust my a$$ to get this job and wouldn't change it for anything. for one, I do get to see different countries and cultures, two, although I have a daily routine, everyday presents a new challenge. it's not 'production line' stuff and I honestly don't think I could handle repeating the same thing over and over every day for more than a week.

[tombogan03884]

ME! ME! ME!!! I love my job!! I work for three months and slack for three and then go back to work for three..  gotta love a job that pays good, takes you around the world and gives you more vacation time in one year than most folks get working for the same company for 20 years. Sorry, don't mean to rub it in, just had to put that out there. yes I do love my job, but I also bust my a$$ to get this job and wouldn't change it for anything. for one, I do get to see different countries and cultures, two, although I have a daily routine, everyday presents a new challenge. it's not 'production line' stuff and I honestly don't think I could handle repeating the same thing over and over every day for more than a week.

It's the same in machine shops, I used to work in a shop that had a couple of high production parts, thousands per month, and all the rest of the work was small runs, The guys I worked with could not understand how I could do that. It seems that my "special ability" is to simplify the job to the point where I can just run the hell out of it while day dreaming about something completely different. I've been at my current job 15 months and have made about 45,000 basically identical parts, I can, and sometimes do, make them in my sleep     My body is doing the job, my mind doesn't need to get involved so it's free to keep me amused.   

[PegLeg45]

The 1000 pound gorilla that is my main customer............

Timothy, there's a term I haven't heard used since the last time I was in a production meeting as an engineering 'advisor' years ago.
The operations manager loved to use that term a lot.