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On 4/13/10 9:39 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:32:07 -0700, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

Some of my coworkers were laid off from the Fremont
GM plant and waiting to be called back to work. They talked about how they
would throw an old file in the door as a joke. Laughed that the customer
would go crazy trying to find the rattle. Same ones would load up a car
coming down the line for a coworker with every option available. Theft, out
and out theft. And the union did nothing about these actions. So the
unions are just as guilty as management about screwing the golden goose.

My inlaws were all GM and Chrysler folks. They say most of those old
stories about sabotaging cars were just urban legends but "throwing
things over the fence" was pretty common. In the Delco radio shop in
Kokomo it became so common that they just changed the policy and let
the employees openly buy a new radio as "scrap" for $10.
Everyone had a nice radio.
They thought nothing of making personal things in the machine shop and
coming home with bags of miscellaneous parts. In a lot of cases these
were really "scrap". My father in law gave me a grocery bag full of
stainless steel bolts to put my pontoon boat together with after he
retired. He had been "collecting" them for years. Basically whenever
someone took out a box of them and didn't use them all they threw away
the rest because it was harder to check them back into "the crib" than
it was to order a new box. He just put them in his pocket every day
and brought them home.

That is not just GM though. IBM threw away a lot of stuff and I
couldn't believe what Centex put in their dumpsters..

My first father in law and his brother began becoming millionaires
during and after WW II by placing their scrap metal dumpsters on the
property of manufacturing facilities in the Mid West and hauling away
the scrap "for free." They had a huge, and I mean huge, scrap metal
yard. Anyway, my father in law said he was always amazed at the high
quality of many of the items tossed in the dumpster as "scrap" at the
manufacturing facilities...

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