In his recent interview with the Daily Telegraph Bank of England Governor Mervyn King lamented the lack of pride Banks employees have in their products
and contrasted this with the pride felt by those in Manufacturing Industries. “They care deeply about their workforce, about their customers and, above all are proud of their products”

I have worked in various companies where the reputation of
the company and it’s products have been stoutly defended and upheld.
Engineers tend to be some of the most dependable, honest and
straightforward people you could meet who have no compulsion in calling a spade a spade. Whether in electronic components, set top boxes or automotive components I have enjoyed working with hundreds of individuals who took pride in their work and the products they produced.

How unfortunate that the same could not always be said of the SeniorManagers & Directors of those same organizations some of who’s greed and avarice would make a banker blush. Who’s decisions based on pure finance have laid to waste hundreds and thousands of engineering companies, made millions of skilled and educated workers redundant and transferred jobs and whole factories to cheaper locations where workers may be employed at a lower cost and under poorer conditions

Over the last 30 years the British manufacturing industry has been decimated, job security destroyed and living standards eroded, despite the recent resurgence which is more to do with the weakness of Sterling than anything else.

and, despite it all, British engineering remains the envy of the world and its Engineers still deeply “proud of their products”

chris@projectsguru.co.uk

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