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ITYM "dumb" rather than "stupid" ("dumb" is curable via education;
"stupid" is as "stupid" does).
That was actually a stated policy in a university (!!) where I worked
previously. In that boss's own words, "If we allow you more training,
your marketability will be enhanced and you'll leave us for more money
somewhere else."
Well, "No $h1t, Sherlock!"
John,
Thanks for reminding me of this. I had put this out of my memory.
(wish it had never happened ).
The senior VP of a company that I worked for had this belief. He
would never send anyone for training no matter what. At the time the
way they scheduled jobs was to read all the jobs into the input Q
with typrun=hold, and then depended on the operator to release them
in the right sequence.
The number of jobs that were read in grew to be over 1000 and the
poor operator had a hell of a time keeping track of them. AFter a few
mistakes and the time lost from the mistakes the market didn't open
on time (we were fined big time). They finally decided to get a job
scheduler. The went out and found one and purchased it. They thought
they had worked out how to use it. The first night was almost
catastrophic. They just didn't understand how to schedule for it.
Instead of training their people the decided to hire "consultants"
the next attempt was a little better (at least the market opened on
time). This went one for several weeks finally a news system was to
be turned over to production and the proverbial hell arose . The
market did not open on time either. The VP was called on the carpet
for a dressing down like he had never gotten before. The next day we
had a 5 people appear out of nowhere from the vendor to give classes
for the scheduler and the production control people were given an
intensive 2 day class. Even the night shift people were brought in.
The results were self evident they rewrote the nights schedule with
some help from the trainers and the next night the production ran
rather well. Yes there were some rough edges but the jobs did get
done in the right sequence. From then on the VP always made it part
of the job for training. It took him getting raked over the coals to
get it to happen.
Ed
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