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1. Dumb Idiot Retard (idiot@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 01:37:40 JST Dumb Idiot Retard

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   @WashedOutGundamPilot I work in other more different manufacturing and I can tell you it's like this everywhere and so much worse than that.
   -Everyone on the floor is either a gigaloser or set to retire. Anyone who wasn't already got a promotion and moved to Engineering, and anyone who wasn't AND didn't already probably has beef with management.
   -Management is so fucking piss-poor that everyone who unfortunately gets hired notices how bad things really are before the end of their first full day.
   -Even with the promotions off the floor, there aren't enough Engineering Technicians and Engineers proper to go around. You've got a few dozen guys that ALL need Engineering support and someone has to lose out.
   -People are constantly brought back out of retirement because "oopsie poopsie turns out you were wearing too many hats and we were so laser focused on making money that we forgot to train people on the thing that only you knew how to do" and it keeps fucking happening and only the serious workaholics in need of an extended grippy sock vacation actually enjoy it.
   -I know of one guy that's semi-permanently out of retirement because he does design, CAD, and a few other hats all at the same time, and that's so invaluable that he cannot be allowed to retire, ever basically.
   -The entire factory is built on a house of cards and if anything happens the entire thing comes crashing down. Management isn't accountable and never takes responsibility, so you bet your ass is working split shifts and double overtime until the house is rebuilt only for something else to happen a few months later.
   -We're adjacent to some of the big defense contractors, and all of them are turning into programming shops and outsourcing their manufacturing to other companies. All I've heard about these places is that e.g. Lockheed will get a defense contract, subcontract out the manufacturing, then yell at programmers until they glue everything together with jizz and bubblegum.
   -People are constantly having health problems. America's manufacturing institutional knowledge is kept trapped in the brains of old diabetic retards that chug three Mountain Dews a day, and they're baby boomers, so their knowledge goes with them to the grave.
   -Made in America is just a meme, usually it only needs to have final bits of assembly and certification done in America and you can call it that. All the intermediary steps are done by Mexicans or Indians.
   -There is no room for promotions or raises. If you were going to get one, you would have already. You don't live in legal poverty, but you might as well be working poverty wages, and corporate is proud. Big proud.
   Honestly if they outsourced all the manufacturing overseas, it'd tank the quality of everything, but it'd be a mercy.