Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple – Weekly Prompt – 100 words
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What Did You Say? by Teresa Smeigh 2019
The noise of the weaving machines was making it difficult to hear what anyone said. Some people learned some form of sign language in order to communicate. The biggest problem, of course, was getting the attention of the technicians who had to refill the weaving material spools. Every time one of the machines had to go down due to lack of material the company lost money.
Therefore, it was imperative that everyone keep track of their materials and let the technician know when they were about to run out so they could be changed in time to not halt production.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses, also a devout Christian
Author – http://www.finallyawriter.com (this blog contains my old work mostly although occasionally I do add something new here), new work is mainly on this blog http://www.tessacandoit.com
I can imagine the drama it would cause if workers didn’t follow the rules!
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I worked in a factory and running out of material and not having it quickly replaced certainly affected the numbers.
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Rather stressful?
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Oh yeah. Don’t mess with the numbers LOL!
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You pinpoint the bottleneck accurately!
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Thanks!
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In days of yore, it was common for factory workers to communicate by lip reading, although how that would attract attention I do not know! Great take.
My FriFic yarn!
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in the 1990’s we had lights to catch their attention if no one happened to be in the area.
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Jobs were easily lost. People were quickly replaced. It was not an easy life.
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I worked in a factory in the 1990’s and even then you had to worry as they moved the factory’s down south. That’s how I lost my job. Only the highly skilled were given a chance to move with the company. I was in production so I was laid off.
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I have friends who have experienced the same. It’s always hard, but God always provides, doesn’t He?
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Yes he always provides in some way, May not be our preferred way, but it is the way it was meant to be.
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Must have been a very difficult life, indeed!
As Keith said, maybe they should have focused more on lip-reading rather than hand gestures 😉
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Having been in that situation myself we did both.
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those were the days that ushered automation which could be a blessing and a curse.
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Downtime eliminations rarely bode well for the worker bees.
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No they don’t. I know in our case we finally were moved to another state and I lost a pretty decent job. I have been laid off so many times it isn’t funny.
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They could attach a little red flag to the machine that they could hoist when running low 🙂
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It is always helpful and advisable to be proactive on such matters. Nice post.
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Thanks!
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heaven forbid downtime! very nicely told..
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Sign language was a great idea. Now hopefully they were looking for the signs.
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They had lights in the factory I worked at so you could call the tech.
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I like how your mattter of fact style accentuates the primary importance of profit, over the secondary discomforts of the workers.
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Thanks, it is true in most cases I’m afraid.
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Hmmm… Maybe they should consider a different form of signalling.
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In my place we actually used lights at the end of the presses where the techs hung waiting or prepping another press.
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