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KS Toronado

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3. In the late 80's

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:51 AM

13 hrs ago

Boeing had us working 12 hour days 7 days a week for 3 months when our General Foreman announced
that we was getting less & less accomplished and cut the entire building back to a 40 hour work week.
And just like that we started getting more done every day.

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