if the people over you will actually listen to you.
One day I met the CEO of my employer who casually asked me in passing if everything was OK.
There is one thing, I said. That's the wrenches that supply has been sending out that we use to remove blanks. I broke one a couple weeks ago and damned near got hurt.
I went on to explain that the money saved on junk wrenches would be spent several times over by even a single no lost time accident.
When he asked what I recommended I said that something like Snap-on wrenches were a bad choice also because we do lose them over the side occasionally. I said that some of the building house middle of the road store brands would probably be adequate.
I told him that fresh oats cost a little more than oats that had been through the horse and he laughed.
I spoke with him at a weekend party and went back to work the next Wednesday. The following Monday a memo came out explaining that every barge would get 3 inch and an eighth wrenches and 3 inch and a quarter wrenches and to discard any with certain (el cheapo) brand names on them when the new wrenches arrived.
The new wrenches started arriving almost immediately after the memo went out.
While in places management doesn't listen to their people, some places do and it makes for a better, more profitable business.
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