Originally Posted by
sjfehr
The problem with newport news isn't the workers, it's management and the corporate culture that prioritizes profit over quality. It just KILLS morale to see a mistake, know it's a mistake, yet be forced to do it wrong just so you can get paid to do it wrong 2 more times (making profit every time, mind you, cost-plus!) and turn broken shit over to the navy, so they can pay someone to do it again to fix it. It's fucked up that newport news gets paid MORE to do it wrong 3 times than to it right once, but that's the way it works.
The slack trades guys on the ship are doing their part too. Pretty ballsy to tell a VP to go pack sand to his face when you are confronted about sitting around...
Between the the lazy guys that aren't doing anything and the lack of skilled hard working guys, it's a wonder we get anything done at all. What's F-ed up is the clean up guy asleep in a space when he is supposed to be cleaning gets paid as much as the mechanic installing arresting gear. Yay for unions.