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I don't know... I work for a (non-unionized) company about half the size of Boeing, and we don't have anywhere near that level of bureaucracy, so I have a hard
by kcorbitt 10y ago
I don't know... I work for a (non-unionized) company about half the size of Boeing, and we don't have anywhere near that level of bureaucracy, so I have a hard time accepting the premise that "that's just how things have to be." I'm sure there are a lot of contributing factors, but I don't have a hard time imagining unions contributing to process creep by mandating the allocation of tasks in a non-optimal way.
I'm no hardcore anti-unionist, but this particular situation seems like a very plausible late-stage union failure mode.
- drewrv 10y agoBut your company is smaller. I work for a company smaller still and the amount of dumb bureaucracy is even less than yours probably. Also, culturally the aerospace industry is very rule and procedure heavy, for good reason.
- flukus 10y agoI've seen it in big and small (10 people companies), it just depends on having someone in HR that cares about shit like this and the authority to do something about it. Sometimes you can't change a light bulb at a small company, sometimes at a big one you're first job is to assembly you're own desk.
- pilsetnieks 10y agoI could easily imagine an incident where someone plugged something in the wrong socket, something got destroyed, and it was codified in policy that only the people who certifiably know what they're doing are allowed to plug stuff into sockets. It takes just one to ruin it for everyone.
- nitrogen 10y agoLike plugging a vacuum cleaner into a UPS.
- walshemj 10y agoWhich actually happened at a subsidiary of British telecom I worked at - the cleaners unplugged the accounts receivable unix system. It was a POS system the finance director brought and caused no end of problems at one point we were unable to cut a BACS tape for over 6 months