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I've been in this industry for over 30 years now, and it's got to the point where its absolutely impossible to do a decent day's graft without the 'corporate' nonsense being rammed down your throat.
If I recall why I got into the tools, it was because I hated school, sitting in a room & shuffling paperwork and loved the aspect of fixing things, and being able at tend of the day, saying, yes, I, did this or that today and made a difference to the customer or operators day.

But over the last few years in particularly, we must disrupt at least one day a week to talk about how to do the job, usually from brainwashed corporate weirdos, who've spent to long gazing at the Rose tinted world of a shiny office with nice paintwork and carefully manicured desk toys.

This industry is a dirty, hands on, let's get the job done, and yet as every year rolls by, more corporate crap from BS merchants justifying change, and they wonder why there is a recruitment issue in this industry, get the conditions and the pay right, with decent tools and training and parts back up, before any of the other crap.
  • Posted 29 Mar 2022 09:42
  • Modified 29 Mar 2022 09:44 by poster
  • By BurtKwok
  • joined 1 Apr'12 - 49 messages
  • West Yorks, United Kingdom

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