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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (484189)5/29/2009 4:57:23 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574126
 
The work was mind-numbing at best, deadly at worst, especially at Ford which pioneered the use of assembly lines.

"In 1916, Highland Park might have a few deaths, a few hundred limbs lost," said Smith, talking about Ford Motor Co.'s first big, automated factory.

Reading some of the posts on this thread, you would think that working in an auto plant was a dream job. If anyone has ever worked on an assembly line, calling it "mind-numbing" is being very kind.
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