I'm gonna be fired and its not my fault

[Emveach]

My job has started a new production schedule that is impossible. Each person has to scan 65 pieces an hour to have a passing rating. We have a machine that will put out 20,000 pieces a day, thats assuming it never breaks down or stops, on an avarage day it stops 50-60 times for 3-4 minutes at a time, or will break down for an hour or so. This down time isn't being calculated in by the management, we are just supposed to deal with it. Now, we have 45 people minimum scanning pieces, which means that if every one would get the same amount, which we don't, we would all get 444 pieces. When you divide that into the 8 hour shift, we can only scan 55 an hour. When we confronted management with these figures the response was "This doesn't make me happy.", and they changed nothing.

It's so nice to know that its mathmatically impossible to do the job you were hired to do. I hope the lines at the unemployment office aren't very long.

 

[Keego]

Write the statistics down on paper and bring that to them.

Or just find an industrial engineer :>

 

[rival]

sounds like a pretty shvitty job anyhow, scanning stuff all day, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[bolomite]

what kind of work?

 

[Emveach]

It is crappy. Its just building pallets with product. The only upside is you can wear headphones and there is no dress code.

 

[her209]

Go on strike.

 

[Chompman]

Yea I hear you man. Sounds like my job that I started about 2 months ago is getting rid of my shift and moving the people that have been there for the longest to 1st and getting rid of rest simply becuase it's to expensive to keep the stuff running. The new management has everyone pissed off at them and they wonder why they are not making money when they screw the employees and think with less time people are working they will make more money.

 

[Emveach]

Originally posted by: her209
Go on strike.

No union there, and most employees are Africans that hardly speak english, so they wouldn't walk out with us.

 

[Ns1]

then what does it matter. you all are gonna get fired and they won't have any employees left.

 

[Emveach]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
then what does it matter. you all are gonna get fired and they won't have any employees left.

If we walk out and are fired, its our fault. If we are fired as a large group due to unattainable goals, its the company's fault. It only makes a difference when you are trying to get unemployment while looking for new work.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

They might realize there is a problem when everyone on the line can't meet the minimum requirements. Your best bet is to draw up a proposal or something with all the figures/times you mentioned and show it to the top boss.

 

[Brutuskend]

Sounds like something that happened to me once in the service.

First day at a new assignment and the Gunny sends me and another guy (who outranks me) to another base to pick up a jet engine ON a engine stand and bring it pack in a PICK-UP TRUCK. We get there and measure the bed of the truck and the base of the engine stand and guess what, it will NOT fit. Ad to that the fact that two guys were supposed to bodily pick UP the engine and stand (several thousand Lb.s) and put it IN the bed of the truck!

So we go BACK the the base, pick up a bigger truck with a lift gate and then go back for the engine. We get there, drop the lift gate, roll the engine up onto it, and guess what, THE BATTERY IS DEAD. The lift wont go up. So the other guy says wait here, I'll go get help. Mind you this is about 9-10 A.M. Well I never see the guy again. I stay there all afternoon waiting. Can I call someone? HELL No I don't KNOW anyone TO call, it's my FIRST FVCKING day there. I don't even know who my BOSS IS. About 5-6 P.M. two guys come strolling buy and ask if I'm PFC. Kendall. "Yup" I say. "Well Gunny King is REAL pissed off, he wants to know where you've been all day. So I tell THEM the story, and we go BACK to the base and I get to tell the Gunny the story. "Why didn't you do what I told you to do?!?!" So I explain why again. (The it being physically IMPOSSIBLE part). Well says he. "You SHOULD have do what you were ordered to do! By 12:00 tomorrow I want a written report stating WHY you didn't do what you were told to do!!"

So I go to the barracks that night and type it ALL out, leaving out no little details, and making a carbon copy (to go up stairs to HOPEFULLY someone who has half a brain). So at 12:00 the next day I ask Gunny King if he still wants the repost.

"No' says he. Just explain once more WHY you didn't do what you were told to do"

So I do.

Several years later I ended up working for this waste of airspace again, and to the day I left, he STILL thought I should have done the impossible simply because he told me to.....

GOD I MISS the Marines SOOOO MUCH!!

BTW: Sorry about your luck!

 

[Jhill]

I wouldn't woory too much. A lot of times management puts out these unreachable figures just to try to make their employess work harder. They probably won't can you.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

This reminds me of a common response actors will give when finalizing a show. You've gone through the rehearsal process, you have x amount of time to make costume changes, scene shifts, etc. Then, they throw costumes into the mix. Immediately, you've got somebody who swears up and down that they can't make it. Most of the time, they'll get used to the costume changes and have plenty of time and yes, there are times, when things have to be changed to accomodate the changes (either different costumes or adds/cuts in the show/music).

Go with the flow, do what you reasonably can. It will become apparent soon enough what is possible.

Complain immediately and it's like a slap in the face to the management. I'm just justifying their demands, but put yourself in their shoes. You come to the workers with your plan that you've worked up. Without even trying to make it work, they say it can't be done.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Sounds like something that happened to me once in the service.

First day at a new assignment and the Gunny sends me and another guy (who outranks me) to another base to pick up a jet engine ON a engine stand and bring it pack in a PICK-UP TRUCK. We get there and measure the bed of the truck and the base of the engine stand and guess what, it will NOT fit. Ad to that the fact that two guys were supposed to bodily pick UP the engine and stand (several thousand Lb.s) and put it IN the bed of the truck!

So we go BACK the the base, pick up a bigger truck with a lift gate and then go back for the engine. We get there, drop the lift gate, roll the engine up onto it, and guess what, THE BATTERY IS DEAD. The lift wont go up. So the other guy says wait here, I'll go get help. Mind you this is about 9-10 A.M. Well I never see the guy again. I stay there all afternoon waiting. Can I call someone? HELL No I don't KNOW anyone TO call, it's my FIRST FVCKING day there. I don't even know who my BOSS IS. About 5-6 P.M. two guys come strolling buy and ask if I'm PFC. Kendall. "Yup" I say. "Well Gunny King is REAL pissed off, he wants to know where you've been all day. So I tell THEM the story, and we go BACK to the base and I get to tell the Gunny the story. "Why didn't you do what I told you to do?!?!" So I explain why again. (The it being physically IMPOSSIBLE part). Well says he. "You SHOULD have do what you were ordered to do! By 12:00 tomorrow I want a written report stating WHY you didn't do what you were told to do!!"

So I go to the barracks that night and type it ALL out, leaving out no little details, and making a carbon copy (to go up stairs to HOPEFULLY someone who has half a brain). So at 12:00 the next day I ask Gunny King if he still wants the repost.

"No' says he. Just explain once more WHY you didn't do what you were told to do"

So I do.

Several years later I ended up working for this waste of airspace again, and to the day I left, he STILL thought I should have done the impossible simply because he told me to.....

GOD I MISS the Marines SOOOO MUCH!!

BTW: Sorry about your luck!

That guy is a complete ass! You can not expect 2 people to lift something up that is serveral thousand lbs!

Koing