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    Ive often wondered in old pics like this so disorginized everything juts how many relatively new guys are walking around wondering wft am I supposed to be doing??

    By the looks of that shop, there are prolly a lot of old guys wondering the same thing.

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    hmm I might need to reorganize my shop... again. and just think,I thought it was a motivation issue...

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    I think some of what we are seeing in many of these pics is the workers wondering WTH is that guy with a camera doing in the shop
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    a more likeley thought would be." **** I hope that wasn't the last casting order"

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    One of the reasons unions came into being.

    This picture was taken just before the company's " keep your work area clean " safety meeting.....

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    Workers assemble Browning-Inglis Hi-Power pistols at the John Inglis munitions plant. Toronto, Canada, 1944.

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