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Old 06-02-2018, 12:44 AM   #12
sambam
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Originally Posted by dieselguy View Post
All about profit … 2 minutes per unit (.03 hr) times a very conservative company labor cost (wages, ins, benefits, perishable items to sustain workforce) of $50 hr times 10,000 units a year times say 20 consumer ideas per unit on quality comes out to $300,000 a year. I've worked on assembly lines before as have some of you. After years of doing the same thing didn't you become a bit numb to it all?
The math is right, but it's based on hypotheticals. $50/hr? 10k units a year? Sounds reasonable. Who can argue? But the bottom line is correct. We ALL become numb to the process after years of performing our jobs. This is what the bean-counters are hired for. Good post.
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