....AND LOVING IT

 

Fred Voss

 

 

Faced

with the fact that there are no other jobs outside Goodstone Aircraft

Company where a machinist can get away with being as unskilled

and inefficient as he is at Goodstone,

some Goodstone machinists

hone every skill they can to perfection and strive for greater and

greater efficiency

in case they are laid off,

while others

cultivate their lack of skills and inefficiency,

only working jobs that are already set up,

jobs they will learn nothing on,

jobs

that only require that they throw one lever or push one button

every half hour or so

as they lean back in chairs half asleep

reading car or fishing magazines

milking the jobs to make them last as long as possible

with big self-satisfied smiles on their faces

like they are getting away with something no machinist anywhere else

on earth could

and they know it

and are proud of it.

 

Some machinists run from danger

while others

make as Goddamned much of it as possible.