You are quite naive! Very uniformed! The car industry ( and others) is a rat race, go go go. Have a friend who worked at one plant for 35 years. You want to take a piss, you need to call a spare relief guy if he’s not already covering some other job. You wait! Plants are huge, washrooms far away a lot of times.
Assembling are car, doing the same job, repetitiously over, and over, 10 hours a day, six, somtimes seven days ( voluntary overtime) for years becomes very monotonous. Apparently you think this type of work is a ‘cake walk’. Shift work, two week days, two nights in itself is a bear, especially in the fall/winter months. You go to work in the dark, and go home in the dark, always in heavy traffic times. You have to have a good working watch, cause if you don’t come back from your 15 coffee break on axact time, the guy who was doing your job( tag relief) is gone to the next guy. Your job not being done, affects the next job which then can’t be done. If the line has to stopped for a ‘fix’ ($$$) guys have been fired he tells me. Production work is a HIGH stress scenario, he didn’t see his family much cause he was shift/working.
‘Friday’night shift most guys he’s telling me would either come in with a 26er, or go out at lunch time (1/2 hr) and race to nearest liquor store. He told me one time he was inline to pay, and noticed a couple of production managers. No words were exchanged! Of course there are others that do ‘other’ stuff than drink. Are you getting the point.
My bud is glad he survived!
The ‘Monday’ comment, always referred to the ‘ hangover day.
And the ‘tired’ quote, like yeah! For a long time he was working12 hour shifts, 82 hours a week, over an hour each way travel time, mabey five ! six hours sleep. No Monday, Tues, everyday...was another day!
My kids and grand kids have fords. Grandpa has a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I probably will but will get an extended warranty. I hope I get one built Tuesday,Wednesday,or Thursday.
