Mark_88
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- Joined
- Aug 11, 2007
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- 68
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- Ontario, Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 2007
- Make / Model
- Dordge
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- 3.3 Fuel Injected
- Transmission
- Automatic
- My credo
- Love Thy Neighbor
I was one of those Safety Nazis (good name for a Rock band)...sort of...but I actually knew and performed the job for two years before I took the position...
Management was largely made up of people who worked in the plant for decades and moved over to run the place as needed...except for the new manager we got just before the price of steel went through the floor...but he had never worked in this plant and although he was very smart he was not fully aware of the processes...and he added a few things that just did not make any sense...
Not to mention he wanted to replace a furnace that had been working since WWII doing the same job repeatedly...but we were getting too much shale and he thought it was the furnace...total cost $6 Million...
My BIL who worked the plant for 30 years figured out what was wrong...and it had to do with someone plugging up holes by mistake that allowed the furnace to breathe properly...his solution...about $300 in a day labour costs to clean out the holes that were plugged up...
Needless to say...my BIL was awarded a recognition plaque and a few other perks for finding this...the new manager was not impressed because his idea only looked good on paper...except the ROI which would take about 20 more years to start making money and pay for itself...
The company was going to go for it...but what was made back in 1942 or somewhere around there was perfectly capable of producing low shale anodized steel the way it was originally designed...until some idiot maintenance man decided to plug up the holes...and he was told to do this by some new manager who thought the holes were letting the heat out and costing too much money...
Management was largely made up of people who worked in the plant for decades and moved over to run the place as needed...except for the new manager we got just before the price of steel went through the floor...but he had never worked in this plant and although he was very smart he was not fully aware of the processes...and he added a few things that just did not make any sense...
Not to mention he wanted to replace a furnace that had been working since WWII doing the same job repeatedly...but we were getting too much shale and he thought it was the furnace...total cost $6 Million...
My BIL who worked the plant for 30 years figured out what was wrong...and it had to do with someone plugging up holes by mistake that allowed the furnace to breathe properly...his solution...about $300 in a day labour costs to clean out the holes that were plugged up...
Needless to say...my BIL was awarded a recognition plaque and a few other perks for finding this...the new manager was not impressed because his idea only looked good on paper...except the ROI which would take about 20 more years to start making money and pay for itself...
The company was going to go for it...but what was made back in 1942 or somewhere around there was perfectly capable of producing low shale anodized steel the way it was originally designed...until some idiot maintenance man decided to plug up the holes...and he was told to do this by some new manager who thought the holes were letting the heat out and costing too much money...
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