From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 16:59:43 MDT
In a message dated 9/1/2002 5:35:55 PM Central Standard Time,
reason@exratio.com writes: For this particular retraining idea, I think that
the market is already doing it to the extent that it's possible to know that
retraining is useful in any given situation. Of course, if a philanthropic
training concern steps in a retrains people for free, that alters the whole
cost-benefit analysis...
Reason,
I sure am glad I came up throught the non-governmental,
non-philanthropic route. My bosses put up with me because they saw some good
and they were making a hefty profit off me. Otherwise I don't think they
would have put up with me otherwise.
My first job was working for a foreman named Al Heitz in St. Louis.
His brother Joe owned the company. As a youngster living at home I was the
only one he knew for sure would be at work sober on any given Monday morning.
Besides I am ambidextrious and don't you know they had an ambidextrious
machine? For those of you that have never worked in shops most machines are
right handed with an occasional left handed set up thrown in to confuse
everyone. I could take that ambidextrous set-up, work my Geometry problems
in my head from night school and turn out over 50% more product that anyone
else.
That got me interested in studying how people work as I couldn't
figure out how a guy (me) that wasn't ordinarily more than a good average
worker could turn out to be such a whiz bang on exactly one set up on one
machine in the whole shop.
Hey, I have a question. Have you had enough of this manufacturing
thread? Anyone?
Ron h.
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