Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some difficulties on the job can be solved almost as soon as they are discovered. At Jones & Laughlin Steel, an alert foreman noticed that a worker constantly complained of back pains when he was under direct supervision, worked well when he was alone. The company's consulting psychiatrist confirmed that the man was "allergic to supervision"; he was put to work in a position of responsibility-by himself-and the pains disappeared. The boss may often appear as a maniacal tyrant to the worker who is grappling with his own problems. When a pretty Du Pont receptionist complained bitterly...
...realistic performance standard, insisted that he keep to it. The worker warned his boss that the strain would bring on the usual nausea. Said the boss: "Go to the window and throw up, then get back to work." The worker improved so much that he was later made a foreman...
...after working four hours without food, Kou went to stand in line at the cook shack for his twice-a-day bowl of rice. Wong was lying in a heap on the ground, moaning. The section foreman was shouting "Get up!" and punctuating each command with a kick in the belly. Wong tried to rise but could not. On his field telephone, the foreman summoned seven members of Mao's militia-big, well-fed northern men chosen because their ignorance of the Kwangtung dialect isolates them from the peasants they bully...
...through Alabama, he was picked up by a white truck driver who inquired, with a leer, whether Griffin's wife had ever slept with a white man, informed him that "we're doing your race a favor to get some white blood into your kids." A factory foreman in Mobile, to whom Griffin applied for a job, told him coldly: "We don't want you people. We're gradually getting you people weeded out from the better jobs at this plant. Pretty soon we'll have it so the only kind of jobs...
...cabin the night of her death. Nor could the prosecution produce a witness who had seen him near the cabin. Sweeping aside a mass of unconvincing circumstantial evidence, the jury's verdict left the death of pretty, 23-year-old Lynn Kauffman a mystery-shrouded suicide. Said the foreman of the jury: "I don't think the state proved its case." Said happy, tearful Nella Van Rie, embracing her husband: "Willem has promised that he will never again...