Ahh, the old time and motion guys. Here's how we used to do it at Royal Doulton:
We'd purposefully slow right down, inspecting each and every piece of clay before it went on the machines. Whenever we dropped a piece of clay, we'd go for a long walk to get the brush and pan. We'd make sure that every speck of clay was picked up and put in the recycling bins. Then we'd go and return the brush and pan. This would go on all day. They would then give us a rate for the job for each piece. We would then speed the process up, stick any old piece of clay on the machines, sweep up at the end of the shift with the brush and pan that we hid on the top of the dryers. Our rates would rocket. They would then be forced to stick us on an average rate - about £9 an hour and we'd slow right down again (why work fast when you get that kind of money?).
No wonder the place went down
