Total LOL....That would be the nuclear industry 24 yrs, which was totally political on every side around the world.
Remember 3 mile Island, the Exxon Valdez, Exxon was in the nuclear business, Union Carbide India disaster, killed 1200 people later they say double, I was running a 6 spindle to refuel their reactor, and got an instant cancelation.
Russian Chernobyl disaster.
Early closures of nuclear reactors like Trojan, and one in California.
Washington canceled 5 nuclear power plants in various stages of completion.
Then the N reactor shut down, the DOD decided it had made enough material for your nuclear bombs.
Not only re fueled water reactors for Westinghouse nuclear fuels industry around the world but produced 70% of the weapons grade material for the DOD at the N reactor before it was shut down.
Never missed a due date, never sent a scrap part..ever....even got a gold quality pin from Westinghouse Nuclear fuels division for my effort.
Developed a positive method to pull spent fuel rods from the reactors core, when they were having trouble doing so...got a bonus and and order for 1.375 million parts.
In a dying industry still we were world competitive to the end, buying new CNC machines, back to college to learn programming, while still running some of the old fashioned machine tools.
Went to computers, robotics, and build anything you want for a price machining after the neclear collapse...again the company does business world wide, with contracts to fill and emergency orders to complete.
No orders fall behind...it's your job to make sure you are on schedule, the world has very demanding customers...think China, Taiwan, and Japan these people are demanding, they expect perfection on time.
And you give it to them.
Do not make a mistake or embarrass the company or you are fired...no clause dismissal is signed and every idea you develop there belongs to the company.
It's how successful businesses build their companies, you have to be aggressive and take certain risks.
Falling way behind, not meeting demand is unacceptable to me ...because I did it.
Bartlein like too many American companies fall into the same category falling behind, not meeting customers demand, afraid to make needed investments, doing risk and efficiency assessments...and just let it happen.
No, it's not an acceptable business model to me.
