Thats funny yorkiepap, I just got on the owners rear the other day for leaving tools all over, there his tools but put them back, clean up your mess, he looked at me dumbfounded, no challenge.
I know it's an old-ish post, but most of the time, where I work it's constantly like a bomb went off. A few months ago, I wouldn't have cared, but now it's really annoying. I try to keep my immidiate area somewhat presentable, but it hardly ever stays that way. You could leave it mint for the next shift, and come in the next day and the welders would all be tangled together, there would be cables everywhere, wedges, cut off and other stuff lying all over the place.
Where I work, "organization" is spelled with two "P's" and a "Q." Godforbid you need chains or plate clamps or oh I don't know...parts for what you're working on? There's no designated areas for stuff, and even then if there were, nobody would put them back. Broom's are antichrist, and safety is last priority. The craneway looks like something from the 18th century that was forge welded and ironically, handles about the same! Most of the yard machinery was obviously built before lights were invented, and the internal lighting ranks up there with "street lamp."
I just don't get it...
Hello Mat, the original post might be somewhat old, but the issue is always there for everyone out there. You do have to wonder why certain types of working conditions prevail in certain shops. Apparently as you said "they just don't get it". There are a number of fab shops in the area where I live and each one of them has a different code of ethics in regard to the general appearance and condition of their facilities. Generally the success of these companies is directly tied to how they go about things such as housekeeping, safety, and the sorts of things that you have mentioned that are going on in your facility. A lot of the time these are the same outfits who are sub-par in the pay rate area as well and cut corners on equipment, maintenance, and upgrades to facilities. I have certainly worked for the types of companies that you speak of and my answer to this sort of thing was to keep my own set of tools that I put away and locked up every night and to clean up my messes and strongly suggest for others to do the same. If you keep chipping away at it sometimes the results will surprise you, sometimes not. Certainly understand your frustration, sometimes depending on the outcome, a change is in order, of jobs that is. Best regards, Allan