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Daddyo posted:woohoo. I love the corporate world. I love being at the top of my "pay scale" so I haven't gotten a raise in 3 years. I love being on call 24/7 and getting paid $2.50/hr to come in on the weekends to fix poo poo for idiots. I love being pushed into Six Sigma project management so I can tack on another bullshit certificate to my resume. At Halliburton, we replaced 6S with "Kaizen", which from what I could tell from the huge posters they plastered everywhere, it is basically the same thing but more "kawaii". What this amounted to was that for 2 months, we were pulled out of our work area and had to sit down with this super bubbly Korean dude and listen to him give Powerpoint presentations on how we could humanize the coefficiency variables and create more output or something. Mind, every hour we spent trying to "maximize efficiency" was an hour that we weren't getting circuit boards ready for implementation into multimillion dollar sensors, tools, etc. Management decided that the best way to "maximize" was to have us stop in the middle of the day and clean our work area....which was something we did at the end of the day, anyway. A clean work area is a productive work area! They then decided to humanize the workspace by giving everyone a plant for their work area. This was after they decided to cut the Christmas party, the Thanksgiving lunch, our bonuses, and there were rumors of layoffs. Management loved the threat of layoffs, using them as a goad to get us to work harder. We actually exceeded our numbers, so they laid off 30% of the workforce. Still, working for them was way better than working at a hotel.
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