Word: on-the-job
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...times [supervisors] take a lot ofthings for granted," Rheault said. But since manylab technicians are fresh out of college and havelittle or no on-the-job experience, "some of thestuff they're working with they have to know moreabout...
...popcorn coming from the popper in the lobby. Disney employs an animation staff of 261, up from 184 four years ago. Says Roy Disney, who serves as chief of animation: "We hired a lot of young, inexperienced people in the early 1980s and did a lot of on-the-job training. I'd say that two- thirds of all the really talented people in the field are here." Despite the help of computers, animation is still a highly labor-intensive job; Oliver and Company will be composed of 2 million individual drawings...
...On-the-job training is generally a fine technique, but hardly when the job involves piloting an aircraft loaded with passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
Unlike those seniors who entered investment banking, graduated seniors in the consulting field praise the "sane" hours, the value in learning about a variety of fields, and the expert on-the-job training they receive...
...Institute for Occupational Safety and Health indicates that Labor's figures, which rely exclusively on reports from companies, might badly understate the dangers in American factories. Between 1980 and 1984, for example, Labor reported 19,700 occupational fatalities. But by examining death certificates, NIOSH discovered about 27,500 on-the-job fatalities in the same period...