I worked for a Jap company. They still have the "job for life" mentality. Switching from one company to another is frowned upon, and shouldn't happen more than once and only for good reason. They are also manager-centric in that every detail of your work is overseen and approved by a manager. It's a pretty high stress environment. I will day, though, they do have some very good engineers and all the people I interacted with were really nice.
I worked for a Jap machine shop that fabricated parts for a certain Japanese orange tractor company. Can confirm all of that.
Funny story: One time I was inspecting a weld on a fresh camshaft, that heavy bitch slipped out of my grip and a red-hot cam slammed into the back of my neck. Didn't even know I was burned at first; was more worried that I just broke my neck. Continued working and noticed it felt weird to turn my head, felt the back of my neck and it was basically all liquid. Boss noticed, pointed and said "You branded. You property of [company] now!"
Boss wasn't a prick. That is pretty funny. You can always tell who was in the Army, because we have brass burns around the collar of our necks from expelled ammo casings raining down on us.
It was kinda tongue-in-cheek. He owned the place, was like 70, and had no reason to work the floor except for the fact that he wanted to. He didn't talk much, but when he did it was blunt statements or witty quips.
Working in industry where you rely on bunch of other departments can be good or bad. Where I am our department is demanded by law to have zero errors and always have to have an answer for every situation that arise. We depend on a ton of support from a shit ton other departments, yet it's normalized that the expectation bar is pretty freakin low as to expectations of excellence from them. It doesn't bother me so much but most of my colleagues are downright pissed off. We had an arbitrator once in some past greivances saying 'its the company's right to mismanage itself'. Imagine the motivation.. there's like NONE in other departments, and in mine there is no option because failure means safety consequences and the law.
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I will day, though, they do have some very good engineers and all the people I interacted with were really nice.
[ + ] MuricaPersonified
[ - ] MuricaPersonified 1 point 1 weekApr 24, 2024 12:33:53 ago (+1/-0)
Funny story: One time I was inspecting a weld on a fresh camshaft, that heavy bitch slipped out of my grip and a red-hot cam slammed into the back of my neck. Didn't even know I was burned at first; was more worried that I just broke my neck. Continued working and noticed it felt weird to turn my head, felt the back of my neck and it was basically all liquid. Boss noticed, pointed and said "You branded. You property of [company] now!"
Fuckin' prick.
[ + ] Master_Foo
[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 1 weekApr 24, 2024 13:38:50 ago (+1/-0)
That is pretty funny.
You can always tell who was in the Army, because we have brass burns around the collar of our necks from expelled ammo casings raining down on us.
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