Reply #90: What I know about GM factories [View All]

[conflictgirl]

My dad works in a GM plant here in Michigan. He got in there about 10 years ago after working for a very small non-union shop for 25+ years before that. Unfortunately, as much as I (and he) totally support labor and unions, from what he tells me, employees abusing their privileges is a rampant problem. He says that there are some guys who bring beer to work on second shift, some who sleep, some who clock in and then leave for several hours of their shifts.

I agree that if Delphi needs to solve problems, cracking down on employees abusing the bathroom break "privileges" is a dumb place to start. But I've never worked *anywhere* where we were even allowed 48 minutes out of an entire shift for bathroom breaks. I've worked in call centers where you had to go during your 15-minute breaks or your lunch hour and that was it. If you had some medical reason that you had to be in the bathroom more often than that, it was often viewed as a big problem. That's an extreme that I don't think should be in place anywhere. But if you ask me, if employees are routinely going over their 48 minutes of allotted bathroom time in a shift, in most cases I think that's way excessive. And based on my dad's stories from the GM plant, I don't have any reason to believe that such abuses aren't happening.