yes,, i am VERY aware of the fact im nothing to the CURRENT big brown machine, I, like you, can be very easily replaced, that was not the point of my original lament. Let me first of correct my original post, our current DM is not new,, he has been around for a long time. However, after curiosity got to me i started asking around and learned the big number enforcer never really did the job..Now, Ive been around a long time, Ive talked and befriended alot of operations people and i understand they are simply a puppet regime whos sole purpose is to hammer us stupid hourly into conforming to produce the current hot topic metric.. i get that. what i cant understand , is the job of operations management so transparent and meaningless as real management that Hr and corporate must fast track any interested party into operations???