25 Unspoken Rules Every 1950s Factory Man Followed That Would Get You Fired Today

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• GI

  @giannidcenzo · 1 month ago

  Seniority meant everything on my first day, my last and every day in between. Times change, great episode.

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• AL

  @AloraVigil · 1 month ago

  We used to manufacture things that would last a lifetime and Were Meant to last a lifetime now we produce s*** that don't even last after you walk out the door

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• RI

  @RichardDobyns · 1 month ago

  I started out as an auto mechanic in the mid-80s in the Snap-on tool guy was still giving out pin-up calendars. I think they had to quit around 95 or so.

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• DA

  @DavidDuro-g3s · 1 month ago

  Working in a company I have one exception to the policy of ratting out someone, A thief if he is stealing from the company sooner or later they will steal from me

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• LE

  @leroyjones6958 · 1 month ago

  I lived in that country!      Was  a draftsman.  A hired gun.   A contractor.   A jobber.    Worked 30+ places in Milwaukee during the 1970s.   I was in engineering.   But I spent a lot of time on the shop floor with the machinists and mechanics, learning from them what they needed on the blue prints to make their work easy and precise.  I joked with them, ate with them, drank with them.    They always said I was the only "office guy" who ever bothered to really talk with them and find out what works best.   They allowed me to use the equipment and small materials to make a few of my own things.    Management liked me because I was always able to increase production and make the shop guys happy all at the same time.     I got more work from them because I cared enough to learn from them and make their jobs easier.       Easier AND more production so they did not even have to work as hard as before.       It was a great life!    I had all sorts of fun and lots of times it seemed like too much fun to get paid for.

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• DA

  @damionparson247 · 1 month ago

  "...the furnace job in July" 😮

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• JO

  @johnhouchins3156 · 4 weeks ago

  Those rules didn't just last until the 50s. We still had many of them in the 80s.

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• RA

  @Ray-r5j9u · 1 month ago

  I was the lead man on my crew. I was a toothless tiger. I didn't have the authority to make anyone do anything. One day the bosses called me in the office. They wanted me snitch on the lazy guy on my line. I said I can't do that. You know there's a problem on my line. I know there's a problem on my line. It's YOUR job to handle problem workers. My job is to keep my press going up and down.

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• DA

  @damionparson247 · 1 month ago

  I wish my father was alive before seeing this video. I have a million questions.

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• OC

  @ocsrc · 3 weeks ago

  In railroad town with paint shops you see so many houses that are the color of the locomotives and cars , changing over the years

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• SK

  @skylerlance7645 · 1 month ago

  I lived this.  Big steel mill in the early 70s.  Construction for the rest of my ride.  Part of this kept big operations running.  Part of this buried American industrial base.  The steel and automobile industries were the poster children for it.

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• AL

  @alanscott8719 · 1 month ago

  It was common to drink 1 or 2 beers for lunch up till the early 90s in construction

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