>>3386168During my stint at Xerox, we had a term for these kinds of workers: Quality Control Dips, or QCD. These were the type of workers who would often fuck up something on the assembly line somewhere during the assembly of the machines. A lot of them were long-term union employees who have gotten complacent on the job and don't put in any actual effort, so whenever something comes their way, they usually do the bare minimum possible. It was a frequent joke that the chief reason the QC department ever had things to fix and return was because of these guys. The issue is, they're always a constant in the process. You try firing them, guess what? Now you got an angry union AND you have to train and hire a new guy who then gets put into the union and will likely fuck up more in the first few months on the job than the union guy would in a few years. You either risk trying to find someone new and spend more money doing so, in both training and hiring, only to have them become the new, WORSE QCD, or you keep your current QCD out of familiarity and just deal with anything that slips through the usual way.
That's probably why this rigger is still frequently hired by Cover. They usually do just a passable enough job to where most people can tolerate it, probably at a much lower premium that other riggers to boot. Familiarity, low risk, complacency, they all go hand-in-hand so when that person fucks up royally, guess who's doing the clean-up job? Not the guy who committed the fuck-up, but someone else.
