At my present and eternal (keep it unnamed) employer, they did the early retirement son&dance about five six years ago. I would guess about 30% of the factory, hard-core staff was sent home on a permanent basis to watch sitcoms - well in Germany it's even worse than that, but I guess you get the point -.
Tell you what: we got a bumper year in orders, so our book to bill has been ballistic for at least a year. Twelve months delivery times - "just off the record, mr customer, and if you quote me, I'll call you a liar". And its not even Porsches we're talking about - it's Porsches alright in our branch of industry but it does not take an arm and a leg to produce. But, it takes quality manpower to do it. In other words, we face one single gigantic production BOTTLENECK.
So what we have now is tiger squads, manned with psychotic managers, -"Och, Frau Meier, zo nice to see you, been a long time,right? Can I talk to Georg for a second, och nein, he died last year?..." - hunting down the same people, they had to send packing five years ago.
At least it makes a some people feel a little better. OTOH I guess a sizeable portion says also:"Screw YOU!"
RegZ
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