I say let 'em work, Tie. I had a few sups and managers when I was an inside employee that actually produced better work than hourlies. Kinda funny to have a sorter scream, "D***IT!!! Turn that belt off!!" A sup hears it, scowls, walks over, tells the hourly to step to the left to "show you how this is done," and takes over, clearing the container in short order.
I know where your coming from I totally believe in an honest days pay for an honest days work. I come all the time I work my but off, safely etc. etc..
The thing with a sup stepping in for 5 minutes to clean up a mess bothers me. Im sure theres plenty of sups who could work faster then some of the hourlies over the course of a day. The problem with the cleaning things up is if they arn't working all day its pretty easy to step in for a few minutes and work at a ridiculous pace. I know I could pull through stacked beltwide flow for a few minutes, but all day?
Just like a runner in a track meet you have to pick a resonable pace that will allow u to make it the distance. If u tried to run a marathon at the same speed you'd run a 100m dash at.
Sure I might be able to load 1000 pieces an hour for 10 minutes, for example, but its unreasonalbe to expect me to maintain that pace all day or to even think that working at a ridiculous level might slow me down at the end of the day.
It's kind of like the tortise and the hare. Im not saying go at turtle pace but hopefully someone understands what I mean and words it better.
