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[โ€“] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Lol I work in maintaining the machines Ford uses in their factories, and they have been mad scrambling to get manufacturing back up and humming along in the most dysfunctional and half-assed way possible (from my perspective.) Getting any of their shit fixed is a communications nightmare. They send the wrong things in to be fixed under warranty and it takes months for them to actually sort out the invoices and whatnot. I have stuff they sent to us to be fixed in 2024 that they probably don't even remember sending us at this point and we're just waiting to hear whether or not this is actually the thing they paid to have repaired.. They send us things that they don't need or want to fix on accident! Just pallets of horribly organized ill-maintained machinery. Granted, the company I work for is a shit show as well and part of this problem is the ineptitude of our own customer service department, to say nothing of the fact my own department has lost 50% of our workers with no replacement (since I've been hired) because the entire American industrial supply chain has rotted completely through. Repair technicians have been retiring left and right and companies are not willing to pay for new hires, let alone in investing in education and trying to do something useful with all this on-the-job knowledge. I can only imagine they gutted whoever is responsible for overseeing this stuff and are just relying on some shitty AI tool to incorrectly fill out paperwork for them.

[โ€“] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not only that, but they insist on only hiring engineers that are at the top of their class, as if they are still a premier employer. Like, sure maybe it's nice to have the pick of the litter, but the issue is that you need bodies. If you want your 'good' engineers to be doing design and fixing problems, then it helps to have mediocre engineers handling the admin. They insist on always running short staffed, because god forbid someone other than the manager have downtime at work.

[โ€“] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

US companies obsessed with making line go up like Icarus

[โ€“] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I did warehouse work like 20 years ago. US supply chains have been a mess for decades.

[โ€“] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I worked in a pharmacy before this, and I thought this would be better for my bloodpressure than dealing with healthcare/insurance agony-deep

[โ€“] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

lol how could you possibly have expected warehouse to be better? If you can transition to sales I highly recommend. I know that's privileged af but holy shit it's so much better than any other point of the supply chain I been in. Yeah it's soulless and alienating but I just sit on my ass and make like 15-30 phone calls each day and sometimes less and spend the rest of that time sitting on my ass watching youtube.

I fucking earned it though I spent almost 30 years doing retail and face to face customer service and hard labor.

pro tip: lying on your resume is super effective.