'Work completion rates dropped by over 50%': New manager tries to tackle inefficiency by having workers drive directly to site, accidentally makes everyone waste more time

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Jun 18, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

New managers accidentally create more inefficiency while trying to reduce it—a match made in heaven. Of course, it doesn't help that their workers are more than happy to go along with their awful plans and process changes to show them just how stupid those policies are.

Oftentimes, these changes are just quickly swept under the rug and never mentioned again, with very little repercussion ever eventuating for the members of management who made the blunder. On the flip side, you know for certain that they wouldn't hesitate to reprimand a worker for making a similar mistake or for refusing to follow their new rules.

This worker worked at a ship repair company where the workers would pick up their tools from a central office, clocking in before driving out to the site. When a new manager came on board, they saw inefficiency right away in all the time that the workers were spending driving to the site while on the clock and instead insisted that workers start and end their shifts on site. Well, the tools still needed to be picked up from the office and returned at the end of the day… and there were only two work vehicles on site for the workers to use to make their required trips to and from site, so you can probably see where this is going…