I race at Beech Bend in Bowling Green and did the plant and sink hole. The hardest working person in that "air condotioned" plant was a woman in her mid 50's chucking (moving) frame rails by hand, one at a time. The most useless worker was some punk in his 20's checking his ESPN sports scores on GM's dime and computer. Most overpaid were the "people" that put the wheel assemblies on. It took 2 people @ $28.00p/hr each (plus OT) to put 1 wheel assembly on. At the end of the line, not one but 2 cars did not run and had to be pushed off into repair. All this while the tune, "If I only had a brain" from the Wizard of Oz was playing through the plant.
Most interesting.... The construction on the ZO6 and watching them hand build a Cadillac XLR. Very cool.
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