What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?

CaspianXI@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 1259 points –
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You would never buy a car if you were involved in making it. We have a vehicle that dumps all its coolant on the road as you drive your brand new car back from the dealership. Making cars is difficult.

Names. You're safe here.

I worked at a major automaker's Factory. We built 6 different vehicles with atleast 3 hardware configurations. Then plus other various options. At the same time. One vehicle must be done each minute.

Obviously when the vehicles approached my station, it was incomplete from previous station/ department, with all kinds of components randomly thrown in the middle floor.

Filled with stress, continuously. Made no rational or logical sense as the approach of production caused so many faults.

Complete dissapointing & my trust for this brand have evaporated. Becouse managements & bosses don't care about people's opinions.

Not one car finishes that line without fault.

I shouldn't be dropping dime on my employer but the name rhymes with Grover. Needless to say, I don't use their products, but every day I try to make them a little better. My miniscule contribution to the product has never contributed a cent to the warranty burden because unreliable machines are an abomination. Sometimes we make mistakes but there's a reason why Japanese automotive became ascendent in the 80s, on average they're more reliable.

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