Back in the 1970’s my dad had a group of customers, the three directors of a spring and pressing company employing over two hundred people making small precision components.
We worked at the factory and their homes for many years and knew about their homes and lifestyles, which included three brand new matching Bentleys every other year, which we built a garage for at the factory, though it was used for the vans overnight.
One Director was an accountant, one was an engineer and the other was a progress chaser. Each of them let the others get on and do what they did well with minimal interference, it was a magical combination making for a very productive and profitable company with the workers on piecework earning far more than they friends and neighbours did.
The idea that one of the workers might have ended up in board meetings is laughable, it really was a us and them regime.
Back in the 1970’s my dad had a group of customers, the three directors of a spring and pressing company employing over two hundred people making small precision components.
We worked at the factory and their homes for many years and knew about their homes and lifestyles, which included three brand new matching Bentleys every other year, which we built a garage for at the factory, though it was used for the vans overnight.
One Director was an accountant, one was an engineer and the other was a progress chaser. Each of them let the others get on and do what they did well with minimal interference, it was a magical combination making for a very productive and profitable company with the workers on piecework earning far more than they friends and neighbours did.
The idea that one of the workers might have ended up in board meetings is laughable, it really was a us and them regime.
