Archives by Tag 'corporate America'
Culture Shock…
Ok – this part is different. 55 or so of my workforce are unskilled laborers and Spanish speaking only. Warm beating hearts all, hardworking, a job to do, a family to feed – but only capable of speaking halting English. And yes, each are here LEGALLY. In fact, they had to prove it as a [...]
Record Keeping…
Corporate record keeping… I learned from one of those corporate "log-room yeoman" last week. Holy crap. If I was under-whelmed with how procedural compliance worked, I was certainly taken aback by the in-depth record keeping in place. Apparently, these records, largely dealing with personnel actions, training, business finance, work logs, supply; things like signed [...]
The Big Tour…
As part of my indoctrination, yesterday I toured a pharmaceutical company. Quite an impressive place for the uninitiated. I was there owing to my need to oversee some of my people who will be conducting work inside clean rooms. There’s a bit of a process to this incidentally. There’s the matter of "gowning-in" and "gowning [...]