Topic: Magic Cable

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I think I

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ve found what I

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m looking for,

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$$Gary Roberts said.

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Oh yeah, what is that?

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$$ Jim Handley asked, as he handed Roberts a pair of vice grip pliers.

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I

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m thinking I might have found a way out of this dump. No more tile dust, no more forty

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mile an hour winds blowing through the plant, and no more Al Wright for me

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Wright, the plant manager, and Roberts, journeyman maintenance mechanic for Tile

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$$Elite$,$ had been at odds for years. Roberts had been hired during a manufacturing plant expansion at Tile

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Elite and Wright had promised Roberts a production supervisor

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s job upon its completion. However, when the expansion was completed and the last production line was ready to produce, Wright told Roberts to forget the supervisor

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s job because he was more valuable to the company as a maintenance mechanic.

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I know what I said, Gary, but I think you

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re going to be a mechanic here even if you stay twenty years,

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$$Wright had stated at the time.

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$$Why are line managers in the center of any controversy resulting from differencesbetween the organization and the line workers?