When I started at Chrysler the super took me to a work station that had had 3 men running it and was now down to two. He told the guys to teach me the jobs was gone for 2 hours and came back and asked me if I could handle it. I said yes it aint rocket science, he then took the guys off to the side and fired them both. I was now working 3 jobs.
I stood it for almost 3 months and when I had down time they would pull me and have one of the supers teach me other jobs. I did not want the brainless type of job I was doing and so quit.
Funny thing about that time is that when break came up the dopers would go outside and line the front of the building and joints were passed up and down the line. The drunks would go to their lockers and get their booze, head to the restrooms and get a quick buzz on. I never saw normal people so have no idea where they went.
We built the 318 engine and it is a wonder any of them ran.
If any of the press would do their job and run an exposé about how these auto workers behave versus those who work for Toyota and other companies, that’d be the US auto industry’s death knell.