Thursday, March 24, 2011

Lower and Middle Level Managers Do the Dirty Work

See this story on the Mail Online web page: First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty as steam starts pouring from all four reactors at the stricken nuclear power plant.

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The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11."

LOOKS LIKE that the peon-workers were told to go home while the middle and lower level managers stayed behind to prevent the power plant from going into full meltdown.

IN OTHER WORDS, the managers are doing the hard, dirty work - obviously they didn't trust the peons to do the work at first.

AT Northrop Grumman, would management do this this?

Or would management tell the employees to get the job done, no matter how hard, no matter what has to be done?

LOOKS LIKE the Japanese managers at this power plant will not ask their employees to do what they themselves would not do - the fifty lower and middle level managers were later joined by 150 others who ALL KNEW that it was a dangerous thing to do. They worked in shifts to reduce exposure to the radiation.

Five are already believed to have died and fifteen more injured - they all know that this work can kill them.

Would Northrop Grumman managers set an example like this?


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