Reply #24: If anyone has experience as a new hire or as summer help [View All]

they know the difficulties in doing the job and doing it right. A big difference between a person who has been on the job for months even years is that the long term doesn't work up a sweat and performs the job with ease. While a new hire or summer help will in many situations be dripping with sweat and barely able to keep up with the speed of the line. They won't sweat as much in plants with AC.

New hire and summer help are given a reasonable amount of time to learn the job before they are left to their own. Plant managers don't allow mass in-plant transfers or mass transfers from plant to plant. It totally disrupts the production.

They are not skilled trades such as electricians, plumbers, etc. But they have specific knowledge and skills critical for production operation. They have learned the ins and outs to make the operation run smoothly. Many times due to injury on the job, vacation, and other reasons an employee not on the job creates havoc. If there isn't enough manpower to fill all the positions within a department it requires management to fill in. And generally it may require 2, 3 or more to do one job.

One of the difficulties in production is the number of options available on a vehicle. That includes different colors and other factors. The operator has to know the codes used for those options and parts for their job. And they have to know how to install the parts without breaking if they are breakable.