-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Oh they paid Charles, I had them by the short hairs as I
 WC> could do what three printers at the other plants throughout
 WC> the U.S. couldn't.

 CA> --8<--cut

 WC> AFAIK I'm the _only_ one in production they offered a pay
 WC> raise to go with them to Bartow.

 CA> It feels good to be really good at what you are doing and when
 CA> you can organize it and become efficient it is a pleasure.

And I got my revenge without doing anything unethical.
I made sure to pass along every trick I used to my
boss knowing he'd be stuck  with the new printer trying
to recall it all after the move.
Before I took over thousands of dollars in unmade photopolymers
were left lying about, I got a dual file cabinate marked and
labeled each and ever one and laid the photopolymers
in there flat until one needed to build a plate thus
also making inventory and timely ordering possible.
I insisted they construct cabinates  with inexpensive 
tubing that was close to the size of the made up plates
so they would't deform, fly through the printer destroyed
and just generally increased their life.
I cut pieces of magback in advance to size so I could make
a plate in 20 minutes instead of an hour.
I made the  machine shop order polypropolene which allowed
me to run the printers at twice the former speed without
throwing ink all over the place.
In general I was operating like  a Swiss watch knowing
that when the time came and after the bad treatment I'd got
I could sit back and enjoy my revenge with clear conscious
when they left town.
In fact the very last two things I did as they pulled the printers
out was insist they order 4x's the normal photopolymer order
knowing even that would not be enough.
The second thing on seeing Steve Walsh approach to unbolt 
the printers I told him not to get dirty 
with all the filth at the bottom of the printers,
peened the ends of the forks on the forklift flat and sharp
and popped the anchoring redheads out flush with the concrete floor
effortlessly. Well the first printer... Steve wanted to try
his hand on the second :-)

 CA> Problem is no one pays for that. I had a manager admit to me
 CA> that I did the work of three people and had slowed to two
 CA> people. It was messing up his scheduling you see and he
 CA> wondered if I could go back to three. Seriously. I eventually
 CA> left because of that conversation. I wasn't being paid three
 CA> times what the other people were paid and I began to resent
 CA> their expectations.

I was all but psychotic towards the end from all the hassles.
During my 7 years at that plant they maimed numerous
people and I count myself lucky I wasn't one of them.
I did take two trips to an emergency room for safety
problems I'd reported months in advance in one case and 2 weeks 
in advance in the second case.
I'd have been fired had I not made a pest of reporting the dangerous 
situation and inevitable consequences to everyone I could find
ahead of time. I missed a great lawsuit opportunity but was
a company man back than it it was only seven sticthes though
it could have killed me.
After they moved to Bartow I heard two printers were severely injured
with one losing the use of an arm.
My inside source was Joe Carney who worked for them about another
two years. One of the last bits of news Joe shared was
the plant manager Dave Goodwin blowing his head off
with a pistol on Christmas Eve.
My all time favorite account was the very earie scene
provided when the company illegally dumped a couple of hundred
gallons of hydrocloric acid between R&D and telemarketing
on a Sunday when no-one was there. A toxic mist was everywhere
and rocks covered in acid were breaking in half and popping like 
popcorn from reactions to the acid.
A main gas line ran right through where that was dumped as well.
I never had trouble with the electrical workers union when I was
hanging cable but sure wish Precisionaire had been a union shop for
all concerned employees they s????d over.
 
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