Recalls, Recalls and more Recalls!

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Let me tell you the reason for this jump in recalls of late...and I'm only talking about the Food. I'll leave the lead-filled pacifiers out of it....for today anyway. Once upon a time, long, long ago, I worked in a meat processing and packaging plant. No glamour there, trust me. But hey, it payed well and put food on the table. For the first year things went alright. We did our jobs, got our paychecks....worked every stinking weekend including Sundays. We never seemed to produce enough and a lot of what was produced had to be re-packed, or whatever. Well, as is par for the course in places like that, the higher ups and engineers and anyone else with a chip on his/her shoulder decides to change everything. In theory we were to do double the work (or more) with half the people. A little tweak here, one there and viola'...production's up, profits are up. However, what the braniacs failed to realize is that their papers and graphs and pretty colored pictures make quantity go up....and quality go down. That's not their problem, though. That's the production peoples fault, right?

They get to sit in their offices and tell others how to do their jobs while never having done those jobs themselves. It all looks good on paper but rarely works. Then, they spend billions trying to fix what their highly-paid people screwed up. They spend more billions on recalling the products of those labors and then they blame the guy on the line who only did as he was told. I think they should spend less money and time on the "big-dawgs" and invest more in the average worker. Give him a reason to care and he'll care. Give him a reason to work harder and he'll work harder. Give him what he needs and he'll give it back. Production may go down a little, but so will re-calls and re-turns from unsatisfied customers. Isn't that worth more than a few extra dollars a day?

Have an awsome day,

MisFriz