It seems to me that many of the people posting on here would be better engaged in brushing up on their machining and procedure skills.Here in the office side of things we run a tight ship and are doing all we can to maintain high standards, you lot are bringing us all down, we would be better off without the shop floor mob mentality, grow up the lot of you before you close the place with your disregard for professionalism and quality, a monkey could do a better job!
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See plenty of competent mates in the shop but too damn many amadans. Nine of diamonds it is.
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The truth is from the sheep. They kiss and tell.
Well it must be true!
And I learned it from your wife.....
My hairdresser told me the same....
MT is a stonecutter!
taxi driver on Saturday night told me this Friday coming was going to be the big one for Baker Hughes in Aberdeen.
You idiots won't strike! What are you going to gain, nothing except you will be out of a job.
Friday the 18th must be strike day....
You were a sh-- operator and the masons got you the foreman job and am i right ?
If your in supervision or above take note of this date FRIDAY 18th March
Your op why don't you go boil your head muppet.
My OP was not a wind up and I am not a merchant. Just telling as it is.
What a load of bullshit not much work scrap it get a replacement simples
Amen brother!
A fair and open minded response to a wind up merchants original post.
At least this topic is worthy of discussion.Waffling on about betty and overtime constantly is moronic.For what its worth my opinion is that a high percentage of the machinists in the shop do their best.Training they recieve can be poor and the paperwork/inspection "duties" are nonsense, everyone knows it.I work in the office and i think the original comment about monkeys being able to do a better job is childish,probably thrown in to stir the sh--, doesnt help anyone to have that attitude at times like these, just my tuppence worth.
How others see us...... managers and office to blame for shop floor mentality. Good machinists actually started as less experienced, maybe poor but had the capacity to become good machinists by not blaming everyone else. Achieved quality through care and attention, strangely enough this brought them higher earnings and good figures to be judged on. Think on and stop blubbing like a load o' Bairns.
The shop floor mentality that exists does so because management have allowed it to develop and ingrain itself over many years. Look at those with 20+ years service. Are they still enthusiastic, do they keep up to date with procedures, what impression does their attitude give new starts? Why does BOD have a policy of promoting from within the plant, eg foremen, which leads to resentment from those peers who were unsuccessful, or those who knew the guy when he was a colleague. Better to bring in a fresh face from another plant with no history or old allegiances. What has happened on the shop floor has been allowed to happen by inept managers, many of whom are a product of this 'promote from within' policy.
Every new thread on here is a wind up. there are good workers and poor on the shop floor and in the offices. There is also good management and poor. Simple solution is to actually look at who's needed and who isn't but the way the redundancies is being handled is purely based on headcount.
It's too much effort for management in Houston to look at Aberdeen in any detail to make an informed decision and it is a Houston based company so they will always look after Houston as a priority. I would imagine that redundancies there are more carefully thought out but here it'll be a case of them telling our management how many to cut, they don't care who it is. If the poorer workers are matey matey with those making the decisions then they will go.
I don't have any faith in the scoring process that apparently is used to determine who goes.
But yes, people will stir it up on here. Why not? I doubt the OP is working harder on their professional standards. What's the point in starting caring now? Either you want to be good at your job or you don't. A fear of redundancy isn't going to change that.
Rooted not routed. Predictive text.
Without any shadow of doubt quality should be higher on the shop floor. Paying under the going rate means we haven't got the best machinists. You have to make allowances for just how many inexperienced people there are and how many have been pushed through a dreadful apprenticeship then expected to produce.
The offices maintaining a standard? When did they ever achieve a high standard?
I'm sure your post is just a wind up, but if the company wants to solve deep routed issues, they could do with hitting the offices hard.
On the machines you have to produce figures that'll you be judged on. So many people in the office get away with doing next to nothing. That's a combination of being lazy and being useless.
I have worked on the shop floor for over twenty years and sad to say you are quite right.
far too many of the machinists have very limited ability, do not want to progress and do
not care. they are of the opinion that Baker Hughes owes them a living. going forward
these individuals are in a bad situation. if made redundant they are finished within the
industry as no one else will employ them. some can barely read a drawing.
Go lie in yer pish
True words here at last!
Accurate post indeed.