On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:33:07 -0400, you wrote:
> When I hired a kid in the shop he served a four year apprentice ship >when he finished he was a second class machinist. After six years five >or six years he was first class and was expected to take on an >apprentice that he hired. In nine or ten years he was a master >machinist had a two machinists working for him and each of the >machinists had a second class machinist and several apprentice boys. Little different over here, apprenticeships were usually 5 or 7 years. I did 7 years plus college, then another 2 at university. We also had to attend "night school" for periods of that as well as doing a full days work. Nobody was allowed to do any unsupervised work for the first 2-3 years, then after that they still had to have all their work checked and signed off until they qualified. You like your ranks in the USA :) Here you were either qualified, or not. They were all "first class" after 7 years. The useless ones had all been fired well before then <G>. Promotion to being in charge of other qualified men is just that, a promotion, not an automatic right here. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
