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Ford to begin monitoring potty breaks at Wayne Plant

Ford to begin monitoring potty breaks at Wayne Plant
Posted Oct 27, 2005, 11:30 AM ET by John Neff

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According to the Detroit News, a memo was issued Tuesday at Ford’s Michigan truck plant in Wayne that stated too many of the plant’s 3,500 workers were spending more than their allotted 48 minutes per shift in the bathroom. Supervisors will begin monitoring the amount of time workers spend in the john and “respond appropriately”. Obviously the local union considers this a petty move by the automaker that doesn’t address real issues needing attention at the plant. The article quotes an industry consultant who nicely sums up the ingenious move by upper management: “Only someone from Harvard could think of something as stupid as monitoring bathroom time.”

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if you need more than 48 minutes in the bathroom you either are a woman, need to see a doctor, or need to quit doing coke.

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i havent been in a bathroom for 48 minutes in a week thats freakin insane.

good maybe cut down on auto costs now.

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wow good for the manufacturers to finally crack down

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i could easily spend 48 minutes on the pot at a time, nest in with a magazine. maxim or popular science would do the trick, have a little alone time to read about stuff, collect my thoughts, all while having my trousers around my ankles, can’t beat it.

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oops, just realized this was a couple days old already, stupid necromancer noob…

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I’d like to see that and a “slow walking” policy enacted at my plant. You could put a 6 month old baby on our floor and they could go end to end in the plant faster than the workers.

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this guy I work with has a quote he says all the time - “never sweat on company time, never shit on personal time”

he pretty much follows this word for word.

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I’ve had the pleasure of having worked in a blue collar union shop and a white collar environment. It was a completely different world out there in “the shop”…one guy’s nickname was “shitbreak” and the other guy was “smokey”.

I’m ready to try self-employment next :slight_smile:

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American work ethic = Ford/GM deep in the red.

I’m so leftist I THINK in a Russian accent, and even I think the American auto union workers are criminals and destroying America’s ability to compete.

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See that, you’ll be a conservative before we know it. That’s a big step right there, congrats.

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unions :rolleyes: x 9999999

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lol… often i agree with FISCAL conservatives… it’s those fucking so-called “christian conservative, family values” motherfuckers that I want to run down with a bus.

(Don’t tell anybody, but I was a moderate Republican until a few years ago. Bush beating McCain in the primaries was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.)

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unions served a very vital role… decades ago.

i do believe that there needs to be something in place for workers to negotiate with employers, and to look out for the well-being of the workers, BUT the unions that we have now are not it.

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yup… but let business owners do what they will and 5 years later we’d be facing a new industrial revolution. you can’t win dude, you just can’t win.

i was watching american psycho this week and in one scene he says he’s not human but displays human emotions, mainly disgust… disgust is a great term for how i view things now a days :beer: + :shaggy: eases the pain so i’m told :kekegay:

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i used to know every line in that movie. when i didn’t have cable, i watched it every day.

“i’m in murders and executions.”

one of the few examples of a movie being better than the book.

“FEED ME A STRAY CAT.” :rofl:

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great movie… USA has been repeating it the last week, it was on after the game :steelers:

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that movie must be cut to shreds for TV. especially the chainsaw scene.

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i never got that far into it, just until he kills jared leto… but they let alot go

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i’ll burn you a copy if you get me a fixed low interest $35k mortgage…