Why is it during times like these the first thing that people ignore is safety and procedures? I tried to get the coworker to understand but he said he is pressured to produce results.
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You are exactly right. As one politician said you would be the goat, all that stuff would be heaped on you and run out of town. Goats are cheap and pleantiful. A toast to all my fellow working goats I hope we can survive and make it through theses hard times. Us working goats need to stay far away from the fires.
We had a project call in one afternoon to be ready for the following morning at 6:30am and if we were not they would find someone else. A job that usually takes 12 hours to prepare for there was no way we could get it done in time so I asked the salesman to try and push them till mid afternoon or at the very least lunch. Yet people from very high up said "in these times with the erosion of the market we have to go a step above the competition..." basically get the f---ing job done or else. We were up for 2 days straight with a lot of eyes on us very aware of the time we were putting in. I understand that I have the right to refuse but when you do not know if the next week you will be able to feed your family its hard to say no. This was a few years ago but this is the sh-- that happens when it is slow... safety gets tossed aside until its convenient again.
Now that I look back at it if something happened it would have been the super on location and my a-- not the guys sitting in the big comfy chairs.
Backstabbing and Dog eat dog bring it on!
That is how management operates! They preach safety, safety, safety but push delivering results knowingly overlooking valid safety concerns. It is funny though, when safety and productivity are contradictory and we send an email to our supervisors to confirm instructions they won't respond in an email which is documentation but rather come by and verbally confirm productivity while ignoring safety! Lots of us have started digitally voice recording their contradictory instructions to CYS. I recommend all my fellow peers follow suit and protect themselves.
Good Luck, and unfortunately in this company remember it's every employee for themselves! Supervisors and Management WILL NOT have your back!