cost cutting at chrysler

Martha was laid off from Chrysler the day before Thanksgiving and she's happy about it. who would want to stay in a department that suddenly was cut from 20 to 8 employees? She told us of two cost-cutting measures that Chrysler had implemented this fall in their auburn hills headquarters: when batteries in clocks on the walls gave out, they weren't replaced. now of course everyone has a watch, or a cell phone, or a computer, so it wasn't hard to know the time. but it was disheartening to see clocks stopped at random times everywhere. and when light bulbs died in places judged to be inessential, they weren't replaced either, leaving dim corners here and there.

god is in the details. this paradigm suggests that Chrysler is surely doomed.

the problem is not the expense of the batteries or bulbs, though of course there is a savings in that, but the expense lies in the cost of the UAW maintenance employee who must change them, and no one else.