"Jim Wilkins" <
muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:lyilintoec.fsf@void.com...
... http://weldsmith.co.uk/tech/welding/weld_qual/221128_alimig/221128_ali_mig_qualctrl.html
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That is a very professional and persuasive article. Could the British procedure be a make-work trade union rule?
"Trade Union rule" - no.
We have no effective Trade Unions here. They are re-emerging in areas
like health-care, railways - places with long-term tradionally
low-paid work (low pay <=> job security and sense of public service)
as the built-up distortions have seemingly finally "popped" (?).
Those in engineering and manufacturing who I talk with are "of one
mind". Describing it briefly is difficult. What's obvious as "movie
stories" in the mind is hard to briefly write.
Broadly the it's the onward chain-reaction consequences of
* no vocational training
* a system of "managers" in whom all thought is taken to be vested
15 years ago I had my first Romanian colleague and at first tea-break
he was sat there with a "1000-yard stare" of total shock. He'd never
seen conditions like this in his several years in Spain, nor in his
native Romania.
It's got worse since...
It's what happens after years and decades without being firmly
tied-up/moored to the physical Laws of the Universe.
If you will; "not supplicating to God's design".
As a scientist in the sense of by training and research, in the
oil&gas industry I sometimes counselled just on the basis of intuition
- well... "You cannot browbeat God".
That caused some quite annoyed reactions.
Oh gawd - once I overdid the "winding-up" and this poor fellow, his
face turned scarlet and - more worryingly - the blood-vessels on his
temples bulged, while he curled over his desk squealing and going
through the visualised act of strangulation.
But yes, exactly the same, couple of days later much chagrinned they
were looking at exactly what I had suggested in the first place.
So what you see is a series of very exact edicts and specifications
about how things will be, trying to coerce the physical outcome in
ways which have no connection with the reality of the Natural world.
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