[SADXA] Words to the wise.

[Wes]

Early in my career at Hughes, to avoid layoff, I accepted a job as a production 
supervisor.  So I was supervising 30 to 50 hourly women assemblers. Although 
Arizona is a right-to-work state and you didn't have to belong to a union, there 
was one at the facility that represented all hourly workers, whether they paid 
dudes or not.  So we had to deal with it. Firing people was near impossible 
after they were through their 6-month probationary period.  The problem was most 
supervisors didn't have the balls to cull out the lousy workers when they had 
the chance and would simply transfer them to another area during the almost 
daily "reorganizations."  (I always scoffed at that term, as it suggests that we 
were previously organized, which was almost never the case)  So the meatheads 
got to stick around. Some of them even became union stewards.

Wes  N7WS

On 12/1/2022 2:12 PM, Jim Wysocki wrote:
> Having spent half of my career in the public IT sector, I can say with some 
> authority that it's riddled with people who routinely produce buggy, 
> convoluted, and unmaintainable computer systems.  I spent a considerable 
> minority of my time in weeding the grossly incompetent ones out of my staff.  
> It turned out to be a very long and time-consuming process.  Most managers 
> aren't willing to go through that pruning effort.
>
> Jim  W9FI