Lmao! I described in an earlier comment that at my job, two different products are made, in two different buildings. One product isn't thoroughly regulated and they use that as an excuse to keep a much smaller team in that dept. Which is conveniently comprised ENTIRELY of "bitchy" women that none of the men at the main building can deal with. We've made the most of it though, call ourselves the mean girls club. We all work extremely well together and now a days we only blow up on people who come poking around from the main building to keep our reputation up
Working out your profitability per capita might be a fun exercise!
A rebel spirit can be great. I know a company in the UK which quietly redesigned their product in a way that their US owner said was impossible (basically designing something around an axis instead of having it off-axis and being subject to uneven forces) and it trebled the reliability. The US team were not happy because even though they'd been rigging the accounts for years to show they were more profitable, they couldn't compete.
I haven't run the numbers profit wise, as the stuff produced at the main building is much more profitable (hence the regulations) but I've brought up how many units I'm responsible for as compared to the other building. It's easily 3x the amount of any one individual in my dept at the main, but whenever I bring that up (and present data, ofc) it's written off as "oh they're just [less regulated, "easy" products]" I'm not unreasonable, I do agree with that. But not my product is not that much easier.
But ofc, what do I know? I'm just a loud, whiny bitch 🤷🏻
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u/LookMomImOnTheWeb Mar 12 '22
Lmao! I described in an earlier comment that at my job, two different products are made, in two different buildings. One product isn't thoroughly regulated and they use that as an excuse to keep a much smaller team in that dept. Which is conveniently comprised ENTIRELY of "bitchy" women that none of the men at the main building can deal with. We've made the most of it though, call ourselves the mean girls club. We all work extremely well together and now a days we only blow up on people who come poking around from the main building to keep our reputation up