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would greatly appreciate it if you would, either, give me a good definition of
RATE BUSTING, or if you would suggest a website that gives information on this
subject.
Signed,
Busted
Dear Busted:
Sam Jones and his co-workers, each, produce 700-900 pieces a day. They earn $11.00 an hour for making 900 per day. Pieces over 900 earn them $10.00 more per 100. Almost always all workers stay within the 700-900 pieces. John Smith, a new hire, in his first week on the job consistently produces 1,200 pieces, and he does so even though Sam tells him to slow down, or the rates will be changed so that anyone who wants to get $11.00 per hour will have to produce 1,200 pieces.
John Smith ignores Sam's warning. John is a rate buster because he demonstrates that a worker can put out several hundred above the standard rate. Does this define RATE BUSTER well enough for your purposes?
Piece work should be a practice that goes down in history. It is meant to motivate, but rather, it creates a stressful work environment in which quantity outweighs quality.
WEGO sides with quality and team effort to make it happen.
Bill Gorden