Day 333 of writing every day.
The thing that sucks about working in assembly and production sort of jobs is that quotas often, if not always, exist. Some in management might treat the quotas as goal-setting to meet customer demands by a deadline and to make sure workers are actually working hard instead of loafing around all day. But I say it’s just a quantification of humans into equations to calculate how to minimize costs and maximize profits at the expense of worker health and wellbeing.
Depending on experience and just how good someone is with their hands, the individual output of one worker compared to another could be more than twice when looking at output in terms of units assembled a day, for example. Each company and every country has their own work culture and some believe it’s good to praise workers who “work hard” and produce the most during the time they’re on the floor. But really, that’s just management knowing they got a good deal and the best bang for their buck.
Laborers aren’t paid in proportion for their output but by the hours they labor, and in some ways that’s fairer for laborers who aren’t able to work as fast. But the need to work at whatever pace that’s fast enough is determined by those above the laborers. These daily quotas basically mean that people can’t miss a day of work or else their coworkers literally have to pick up the slack and stay late because the schedule has to be followed and the workers have no control or say over the schedule.
I find the imbalance of power in the relationship to be very disagreeable to my beliefs of how a work place should operate. There are schedules, yes, but unless people are dying or something bad regarding people’s lives and safety, it’s all just some operation for people to get rich and exploit workers.
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