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| Bath Shipyard Scrambles As Thousands Retire; Months Behind On Destroyer Work, Says President |
| 2020-05-28 |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 /\ Want to bet one Management guy said to the other while playing golf: "My Silicon Valley buddy says that we're okay ... just hire some H-1B's and no problems!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-05-28 19:09 |
| #8 not training the new employees, but refusing to train them ahead of time Consequence of the yearly congressional budget and DoD procurement systems. Contractors can't plan more than a year ahead. |
| Posted by: Uneang Thromort7913 2020-05-28 19:09 |
| #7 I don't know whether to laugh, groan, or scream. This is the definition of stupidity (not training the new employees, but refusing to train them ahead of time). |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-05-28 18:59 |
| #6 Sneering liberals who look down their noses at the trades are just now realizing thair freedom rides on "those people". |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-28 16:44 |
| #5 I've worked at a couple places where management considered |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-28 14:48 |
| #4 I've worked at a couple places where management considered customer service a "cost center." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-28 13:28 |
| #3 /\ The same MBAs that list Preventative Maintenance as a 'Profit Loss' and suggest that machines should be run until they totally break down... those people. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-05-28 13:22 |
| #2 Betcha, their MBA told them not to bother before there's an absolute need. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 12:45 |
| #1 Some 1,800 new employees are being trained up to replace hundreds of older tradesmen who retired over the past several years after being hired during the last shipbuilding binge in the 1980s. Training the new group has taken time, and slowed some projects down. “Those people are leaving in groups, requiring us to replace them in big groups,” Lesko said. Now WHO could have predicted that predictable event? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-28 11:20 |