Re: Airbus pic

Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:04:50 -0500, krw wrote:
In article <47AE0968.AD5CC7F4@xxxxxxxxxx>, paulh@xxxxxxxxxx says...

Boeing actually has a pretty enlightened policy regarding employee
behavior when its not driven by company politics.

Again, on company time and with company resources? BTW, when is any
thing in a large corporation not driven by company politics. ;-)

Well, there's always the possibility that the frisky, frolicking,
happy employees were actually more productive than the repressed,
dour, sad people that you seem to think are necessary to "proper
functioning" of a business.

In fact, I have an anecdote, second hand, of course - this guy
said that he once supervised the second shift at some assembly
company. Everybody there was a pothead, so when first shift went
home, they'd lock the doors, spark up, and consistently beat
the day shift's production numbers and quality. :-)

OK, I can hear it already - "If the guy was a pothead, how did
he remember their production numbers?" ;-)

That's pretty funny. One of my last supervisors at Boeing had a
noticeable problem with short term memory. He always made excuses about
it. My favorite was that he claimed to suffer from dyslexia (I've known
and read a lot about 'high functioning' dyslexics. They tend to have
very good memories, as they can't rely on reading notes. Craig McCaw is
one good example.)

At a meeting, one of our software people, a lady who had raised a couple
of kids through some pretty rough teenage years spotted the problem
immediately.

"He's baked", she told me after sitting through a meeting with him.

Cheers!
Rich

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