Just yesterday got some info from our head office in Moscow: Due to the expected slowing in the sales growth there's a possibility that they'll start cutting salaries. And ai have a hunch that it ain't gonna be the salaries of some overpaid people in Sales or marketing or Logistics and Sourcing.Looks like it well may be our department – after all, running around China enforcing quality requirements and fixing all the confusion and screw-ups they've created is surely easier than sitting on your ass in the office doing nothing (well, them doing nothing ain't the worst case scenario as they tend to screw things up pretty badly).
Actually that seems to be the case all around the world. They don't punish those who created a screw-up, they punish someone else. The banks creste this crisis? Bail them out and let everybody else foot the bill. Them in Purchases screwed up tech requirements and ordered something you can't sell to Somalis for failing all certification? Why, Purchases get a hefty bonus for... well, for being there; Marketing gets a hefty bonus for adding a new product to inventory for such a low price and I'm stuck with an impossible task of getting that crap to conform to some of the requirements and no bonus because it doesn't count as real work.
Oh you should see and hear them – babbling fervently about how they must cut that 1% off the price (and screw that compliance to those pesky standards that we'll lose in the process) and get that packaging just right and screw the tech requirements because packaging is so much more important... and then my QC report comes in.
Well, they start shouting then. It goes like this:
"Why's that cable so crappy? We won't be able to sell it!" Well, Einstein, you remember that price that the factory gave you? The one that got you that bonus? The one that was too good to be true? That price was too goog. It was for that crape we got – all beause of someone was too excited to send in tech requirements, just assuming that 6he stuff will be magically conforming to them. Why, it may delay production for a couple of days! Well, now we have a pile of steaming crap that we can't sell, I have a headache and you have a bonus.
"Why's power factor of that lamp is so low?" Well, maybe because you failed to mention that you needed it to be like 0.9 instead of default 0.5? Oh... it was assumed that just because we have asked whether it's possible to make it reach 0.9 the factory will do that and won't raise the price even though the electronics will be more expensive?
And it goes on and on and on... All in the same vein: Marketing or Purchases assume something, place the order, get their bonuses, we get predictably crappy results and I'm stuck with explainin to the factory that we need a quality product not something even a retard would classify as crap.
Well, if they try to cut my salary I'm outta here. I like the job despite all my complaints about it, but I ain't no charity. If they want to get something for free they can go dumpster diving. I have a flat to remodel and a lot of good places to take my wife for vacation and no use for people who try to screw me.
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