In the Loop and Emptied by It

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

On night shift at GM’s Lansing Delta Township plant, there was no one upstairs in engineering to call. I was a shift leader. When the line went down, and we had eliminated all the Neanderthal mechanical culprits, and what was left was a controls fault, the radio call went out. When a trim shop stops at fifty-five jobs an hour, a hundred and fifty people stop with it. Fifteen cars sit in the buffer to chassis. In about fifteen minutes they are gone, chassis starves, and two hundred and fifty more people come to a...