| When I started programming in the early 80s, it was on an in-house manufacturing system, so I got to know many of the managers and line workers. * Many mid-level managers were heavy drug users, doing cocaine. * High level managers had no clue their direct reports were addicts * I would say about 25 to 40% of the line workers were very drunk after lunch. * Numbers at Month/Quarter end was everything, not quality. That means as Fiscal End approached and numbers were bad, some managers would "cheat". * This cheating would alienate our customers. By the end of the 80s, the company was in bad shape, going chapter 11 in the early 90s. That was my experience in a rather large company. And from talking with friends at other manufacturing companies, things were pretty much the same there too. Now here is hardly no manufacturing taking place in my area. I cannot speak to how things are in sat China, but I kind of doubt it is even close to what I describe above. |