>>13587663Theoretically trained manager gets put in charge of a department in a chemical plant.
>Used to be that some experienced operator, via a shift leader position, could eventually become the department head.<Manager has an idea to save (doesn't matter WHAT he's thinking of saving really; in the end it's MONEY anyway) and draws up a proposal to change part of the installation.
A simple operator (yeah, ME) happens to hear about it. Gets a look at the plan (I asked) and immediately says
>That can WILL sort of work. For, when fully operational, about 45 minutes. And then there'll be flying shrapnel.<The operator is (well DUH!) ignored.
** The guys sent to plant seeds would, no doubt, have reached this same point in a similar way. **
The operator happens to be in contact with a former engineer who became a site director at a sister company every so often.
For no known reason (yup!) the plant director HERE asks the laboratory manager (a former process engineer) to have a look at NewManager's design.
That design, the idea behind it, disappear overnight. So does, three nonths and two ideas later, NewManager.
** What is surprising in the Russian tale is that the planters didn't politick some party higher-up. Because they must have known they'd end up getting shafted if they didn't do something; better throw the boss unto the frozen field. **
