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Boomers used to get drunk at work btw
Christ, fucking imagine what boomer work was like. A world without internet, without cell phones, without GPS-tracked semi trucks.
Truck broke down halfway across the country so our shipment of raw materials for the next production run is delayed? Shit, guess we’ll find out in a month from now. Another week of sitting around and smoking cigarettes it is, then!
Our contractor metrics are shitting the bed and customers are furious? Lmao I guess we’ll find out in a month when the letters arrive in the physical mail and resolve the problem in another year when we find out who to call.
Fuck it, did my hour of work today, time to get drunk. And earn enough to single handedly support a family of 4 with multiple homes, vacation cabins, multiple vehicles, and yearly international destination vacations lmfao.
Oh what’s that, it’s time to retire at 50 with my company funded pension, social security funded to the gills, flush retirement accounts, and rental property income.
...just-in-time supply chains weren't a thing back then; robust businesses stocked and planned sufficient lead time not to risk lean operations on stochastic hiccups...
Of course, keeping inventory was much more important in those times. However, it’s disingenuous to act like robust American manufacturing had their shit together in any way back then.
I am quite versed in it as an Industrial Engineer, there is a cultural reason Deming was laughed out of American boardrooms and welcomed in Japanese ones from small podunk auto manufacturers nobody had heard of such as Toyota, where the system they developed would go on to form the basis of all modern manufacturing (which took American manufacturers so long to understand that they all went out of business). Even to this day, American auto manufacturing is a joke.
When pull manufacturing is considered a revolutionary concept, robust business does not exist.
if I wanted to do that, I'd just go into advertising
I get stoned at work, some things did improve I suppose