Re: OTish--morality at work.


"B.B." <DoNotSpamthegoat4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So today I was given an order from above at work that I seriously
> hate. I had to do a brake job on a used truck. Our shop owns the truck
> and intends to sell it, and I was doing some needed repairs before it
> hits the customer.
> Anyway, when I pulled the front axle drums they were obviously
> ruined. The rivets had worn some deep grooves and the drums themselves
> had too many too long cracks. In other words, the front brakes were
> junk.
> Work order only said: new shoes. Nothing about drums, so I asked.
> The answer: no new drums. So I made damn sure to write on the work
> order that I asked and was told not to change them before I put it all
> back together.
> Apparently they don't give a *** about the safety of whoever buys
> the truck.
> So what would you do? Do as I did? Complain? Quit? Call the DOT?
>
I might leave a photo copy of the work order showing your conclusions about
the safety of the drums in the glove box.

Another idea is to consider revisiting this topic with your boss at a later
date. Pick a time when he seems to be in a good mood, or at least not in a
real bad mood and in private tell him that you have real strong reservations
about cutting corners on safety as it could be your kid in the school bus
that that truck hits and even if it is not there are a whole gaggle of
lawyers that would grab on to something like this to attack the company.
The result would be pretty bad. If the shark lawyers did not kill the
company outright, then the repercussions from the bean counters would make
life insufferable all the way down the line.

The reason you do it this way is if you do you make it palatable for you
boss to accept your reasoning and still let him think he is the boss. The
best bosses are the ones that can train there crew to call on their skill
and judgment to get the job done right, the bad bosses are preoccupied with
telling their crew how to do the job.

If your little talk has no affect, then start looking for a gig with a boss
like the first example.

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Roger Shoaf

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