Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 06, 2024, 12:33 AMWhy do you think the turnover is so high? My experience is that turnover is high when hours burn people out and the employer tries to pay for as few of the extra hours as possible.
To many reasons to name but the largest single reason is the company does not understand the nature of the people in the position I am, the front line workers competent with electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic. I have found the good ones to largely be self motivated, self organizing, and would have what today would be called non neurotypical thinking. This often leads them to be great problem solvers. The company does not let such people run with the ball so to speak.
I kid you not they have our entire days planned out 7 to 10 days ahead, and every one of us knows this wont work, they either don't have stock, or are using just in time inventory that results in jobs backing up. They have average time on site targets we are supposed to meet or beat but that results in mistakes being made because people are in a hurry.
I am finishing up some jobs from as far back as last year. Then as things back up meetings are called where all the blame is on the front line workers. It is a cluster fuck. I suspect this division does not make money. Does not have to, it is being carried by the rest of the conglomerate.
Just in this last week, of the 5 of us on the tools 3 were off sick at least once this week. One guy off 2.5 days this week, and he was really sick, maybe 28 years, I could see he had not been handling the stress well. could not catch his breath, coughing, looking terrible, caught him holding his chest a couple times in pain. They still did not send him home he finally just said I have to leave and he did. That was midway through Wednesday. Maybe there will only be four of us Monday. I was riding shotgun on a job out of town to give a guy a hand replacing a transaxle and when we got there he had forgot to put the part in the van. I don't blame him, the company did though. Mistakes are always made when you are rushing to keep a arbitrary time schedule.
On a more positive note, I picked up another wonderful dc gear head motor with just the right rpm range to build a mid drive electric bike with. Best parts is the nameplate specs indicate this to be a 400 watt motor, 500 watt is the legal maximum here in Canada, but.......here is the good part, this industrial quality motor is extremely conservatively rated, From my experience this thing could put out 1000 watts all day long with peaks even much greater. Bevel cut gears for quiet operation. ( was used in a hospital environment where quiet operation was required) A project for the future.