Journalists on a mock GM factory line.
....and they will cock up.
Quote:
Journalists on mock GM factory line produce 25 defects in 20 minutes
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...um_wwjgilb.jpgIn a stroke of public relations ingenuity, General Motors and the UAW on Tuesday threw a handful of Detroit-area journalists onto the mock assembly line used for training hourly workers.
The result? A renewed appreciation for manual labor.
The best summation of how well the 15 ersatz shoprats did at their goal of assembling 18 plywood "vehicles" with zero defects is that more than one reporter was driven to recall the "I Love Lucy" candy factory skit. Joann Muller of Forbes
was upfront about the challenge:
Safety was also lacking: the journalists recorded 22 safety "incidents" in 20 minutes - including a worker who was hit four times by a car coming down the line. At the end of our first 20-minute shift, we produced only 13 cars [[instead of 18, our target), with a total of 25 defects, which meant we would have to return Saturday for unscheduled overtime to fix the faulty cars and meet our production goals.
Rest of the article in the link.
Okay, dissing journalists for mistakes they made in a work trade they never studied for and have no experience is a bit low but these people are also the first who to point out the auto producers' mistakes on car sold at the dealers. Turns out producing a car is not that easy as it might seem.
