End of an Era

[Flying10uk]

People seem to want everything done as fast as possible nowadays regardless if a totally crap job is the result.

When I started work in the mid 1980's if you produced a totally crap job you were in the foreman's office and you got the sack.............Back then the foreman's office was in the top centre of the shop floor and the top half of the office was all glass. Anyone "invited" into the foreman's office was in "full view" of the shop floor and virtually the entire workforce; it was almost like being on a podium or stage. If the then foreman had you "lined-up" for the sack it would normally follow a familiar pattern and always on a Friday. The "unfortunate one" would be "invited" into the foreman's office and this would be combined with a sudden, rapid, decrease in productivity as the rest of the workforce surreptitiously "spectated" and the person would be gone by 12 noon all because they had produced a crap job.