Idiot factory workers

smokin ace · 06-05-2010 04:58PM

Dean820 wrote: »

I don't get what you're trying to say, you get more respect for being a slow idiot factory worker than a hard working one?

ok i will explain it to you 1 year ago i was worked my balls off i was told to work harder got no thanks for working harder and was helping other lads that was falling behind and was told to take a 20% pay cut and management told me if was not happy i knew where the gate was and they could have a polish chap doing my job first thing in the morning

now after the pay cut and the attitude of management i really dont care any more about my job i have realised i am only a number i only do what i barely have to do and i seem to get more respect for doing that so why should horse myself in work

Auldloon · 06-05-2010 07:58PM

This ^^^^ attitude is very common in my industry (not a factory environment) also and its not confined to Ireland. I have worked in probably 20 or so countries and its the same everywhere I have been.
Some people work hard, some don't. I have often found that the folk who bimble along just putting in their shift feel they have at some stage been shafted by management, maybe several times.
Amongst my own colleagues and they are fairly well paid professionals there is an attitude that how hard they work depends on how well they are being paid and treated.
Its just human nature.
I have also seen places that are ruled with an iron fist, this gets results and will get a hard days work out of most people.

Auldloon · 06-05-2010 08:11PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Have you worked in any other countries? I could accept the Germans, Nordic countries and Japanese would have a better work ethic than us but the Italians? While they make great machines there as slow as Christmas. The Chinese as I've already said on many occasions don't give a damn what leaves their factories as long as it's paid for. The English are so tied up in bureaucracy and health and safety the have to send a plank of wood out of the country to have a nail put in it.

Overall I think we have a decent enough attitude, we get the job done. We won't work out of our skin for no good reason. As someone else once told me "the Germans live to work while the Irish work to live". I wouldn't want it any other way.

I have worked in Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, England and Ireland and I disagree.
You have good and bad workers in all those countries, varies from company to company and team to team much more than from country to country.

Some of the best teams I have worked with were Italian, speed, efficiency, quality, team spirit, the lot. Irish and British would be highly rated in my experience once they know hangovers are not tolerated at work;)

nike319 · 06-05-2010 08:15PM

The OP is right about this. I'm not blaming the factory workers but a lot lads in these factory jobs have been there for years. So they just go through the motions on a day to day basis. They can be very stuck in their ways and won't do any extra work or change how they do their work. Then the new guys learn from the old lads so in essence they just become copies of their predecessors (as regards work ethic) and so on. And if they have a strong union, good luck cause they won't lift a finger more then they have too.

Fizman · 06-05-2010 08:17PM

I agree totally.

Sure only today, myself and 4 other lads were waiting for a process to finish so we spent a bit of time catching up and talking about boobs and what not, when we spotted this contractor lad on his laptop. Browsing boards.ie of all things. Kinda looked like he was touching himself too.

Is it just me or are all contractors in the country today absolute numpties?

Oh and he smelled a bit funny too.

problemchimp · 06-05-2010 08:22PM

Smart Bug wrote: »

As are you.

At least they're not so crippled by their own insecurities and social ineptitude that they can't pass a day doing a drudgeruous repetitive job by having the 'banter', while you peer at them through your two-inch-thick spectacles from around your oversized computer monitor, bemoaning their lack of intellectual development as you stare into the cold, dark abyss that is your lonely extistence where envy is your only constant companion.

ooooohhhhh yyyyeeeesssss! well said

starbelgrade · 06-05-2010 08:24PM

Am I missing something? I thought that all people who worked in factories were idiots.

dr.bollocko · 06-05-2010 08:25PM

It's a moot point really as our economy has become too expensive for manufacturing to thrive here. Work your fingers to the bone, do **** all, regardless we'll all be in the same queue in a year.

smokin ace · 06-05-2010 08:33PM

nike319 wrote: »

The OP is right about this. I'm not blaming the factory workers but a lot lads in these factory jobs have been there for years. So they just go through the motions on a day to day basis. They can be very stuck in their ways and won't do any extra work or change how they do their work. Then the new guys learn from the old lads so in essence they just become copies of their predecessors (as regards work ethic) and so on. And if they have a strong union, good luck cause they won't lift a finger more then they have too.

did everyone think that maybe all some companys want to do is give workers greef and tell them that if there not happy that the gate is open and that we can be replaced within an hour with polish guys (i have no problem with polish workers by the way)so why should the workers work themselves to the bone when there told this
like i said before i worked myself to the bone in my job for a long time and when i asked for a raise they said they wanted a wage drop of 20% when i asked for a promotion they told me no and that i wont get one either i have been in my job 7 years and no one has got a promotion so why should we work hard to get on where

nike319 · 06-05-2010 08:37PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Am I missing something? I thought that all people who worked in factories were idiots.

Dodgey

Agricola · 06-05-2010 08:45PM

kwalshe wrote: »

I am talking of an overall view that we are very immature , ineffecient, and just dossers.

They are immature, inefficient dossers, when viewed through the prism of YOUR job. Maybe your job requires political correctness, maturity, a manicial work ethic but these guys jobs obviously doesnt, so what harm. If they meet the managements output targets, they're fine. If they dont, they get in the ****. If they exceed those targets they may get a raise. (Not anymore though!) Factory work is a simple affair.

Goldenquick · 06-05-2010 08:57PM

Sounds to me like you are just showing off, that you think you are superior to factory workers, when you should be saying, "there but for the grace of God go I". :P

--LOS-- · 06-05-2010 08:57PM

Chuileog wrote: »

But office jobs are perfect for people who are a bit slow.

Yep, half the effort involved in a low scale civil service job is the art of pretending to be working, I don't understand the superiority that comes with sitting behind a computer at a desk.

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