"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:13:59 -0600, RogerN wrote:

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And -- if they're such d***wads, why are you still there, or at least not
actively looking for other work? If they're not otherwise perfect, you
should vote with your feet.

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Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com


There are the local people that are pretty good people all seem to be trying
to do their job making the company run. Then there is the corporate
dictating how we do things, it seems more like they are trying to make us
unsuccessful, probably in their own ignorance. It's a German owned company
and when we get new manufacturing equipment, they specify that we have to
buy this from the German manufacturer of their choice. So we get equipment
from Germany and many of the parts are only available from Germany, not even
stocked in the USA.

So we end up trying to manufacture ~35,000 tires per day with every machine
pushed near the max. Something breaks and we end up needing parts that are
not in stock because corporate doesn't want to give us the money to buy
spares for the equipment they specify and there is a 6-12 week lead time to
get the part from Germany. Basically we (local company) are in a battle
with the corporate trying to keep the place producing.

There are the "difficult to deal with" that control the company but the
local people I work with every day are also in a battle with the d***wads to
try to keep things going. My other reason for staying is that sometimes,
with overtime, a one week paycheck can be 4X my mortgage payment, that's
pretty good pay for this line of work in this area.

RogerN