Hey Hursty, It's *build* !! I thought all the folks from NY could spell. (c;
I agree that we have issues in the south, but I actually don't think it is limited to our area. I work in the automotive industry in the South. We do have pictures to show employees how to assemble parts. We do spend countless hours training folks that seem to loose the training overnight. I am nothing short of *amazed* at how complex the training issue is here. I can spend hours typing out stories that occur everyday in our facility, and you folks would not believe me. You just have to be here to understand. However, I think it is an issue nationwide, as opposed to just the bucolic south. I blame some of it on unions, a much larger portion on a feeling of entitlement, a dab on management system that is ignorant to the training that *is* needed, two dabs on all the multi-national folks we seem to embrace, and a dollop on the general level of education in the South. I recently trained an employee to run a robotics station. The basic job is to load 6 parts on a small aluminum pallet, then hit a button to run the pallet in front of 2 robots and 2 process stations, then into an oven. The operator removes the parts after they are cool. A conveyor runs in an oval so she can stand/sit in one place. When required, manual operation of the robots consists of pressing 6 buttons in sequence, all spelled out in a sheet with pictures on the panel. This is done once a shift to load glue, change brushes, etc. The operator never lifts anything more than 1 pound. I was told by the operator that the instructions were 'way to complicated' and that I must simplify the system so she can run it. She actually expected me to comply with her demand, as she has seniority over all the other applicants who were clamoring for such a 'pie' job. She works elsewhere in the plant now, but we can't just let her go. [EMAIL PROTECTED]&* Our plant is of German origin. The Germans have an entirely different work ethic, and their educational system works in a significantly different manner, producing workers who care about what they do. When the Germans decided to build this plant, they were completely unaware of the difficulty they would encounter from work ethic, lack of quality education, and language barriers. The process they used for years simply did not work in the American South. I have steered my wife away from an ML as a result of the experience of working in this plant, which parallels MB's efforts in Alabama. Richard ( who will preach on the subject at the RustyQ this fall, if prodded ) --- JabbaHursty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could very well be. While i really like the South on many levels and > > enjoy living here, literacy is not valued here at all, even by the > upper classes. There isn't a single decent bookstore in the city of > Atlanta and possibly not even in the whole South. It doesn't seem to > > trouble the natives in the least. For "readin n ritin stuff", the > wealthy here simply import Yankees to handle it. > > There are small pockets of literacy and literature in the deep > South. They are generally confined to small groups of weirdos at > various universities. Beyond that is a vast nothingness of darkness. > > > > At 11:27 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: > >Is this why the ML's have such a sorry record??? > > > >"Least Competent People" > > > >"Citing the high quality of the workforce in Ontario, Toyota decided > > >recently to build a second plant in the province (this time in > >Woodstock) even though Ontario was offering only about half the > >subsidy offered by Mississippi and Alabama to build the plant in one > > >of those states. According to a July Canadian Press story, a Toyota > >spokesman said it had learned from Nissan and Honda, which had found > > >the workforce in the U.S. South to be often untrained and > >illiterate, and that, in Alabama, trainers had to use pictorials to > >teach some workers how to use the equipment. [Canadian Broadcasting > >Corporation-CP, 7-5-05]" > > > ><http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp?vts=8920052001>http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp?vts=8920052001 > > > >-- > >OK Don, KD5NRO > >Norman, OK > >'87 300SDL > >'81 240D > >'78 450SLC ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
