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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
That's kind of how I remembered it going down around here; your reply kind of cleared the cobwebs a bit. I think Boeing was under-bidding on its professional labor rates, and expecting us to work a percentage of overtime (unrecorded) to lower our actuals to their under-bid rate. They did get their pee pee slapped for that one, and hard, from what I remember. Not surprising Micky D's was still doing that at their "heritage" sites (don't you just love that term?) long after they bought Boeing (with Boeing's own money, but that's a story for another day...).
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Actually, we were doing the 44 hour work week thing prior to the merger (this was probably 1994-1996. It was only done at our site (in Huntsville). Our site management thought it would give us an edge in beating out an incumbent for a DoD contract, but knew that the government would not accept our "promise" of the proposed labor rate unless we were already working it, so they instituted the 44-hour work week in order to win the contract. We didn't win the contract, but management loved the idea that we were working an extra 10% for free, so it stayed. Harry Stonecipher was coming to our site and caught wind of the 44 hour work week and the ***** hit the fan - we went back to a 40 hour work week the next day. Evidently, no one above our site management knew anything about this.