Working for an Ex-employee. Never burn Those Bridges.
Interestingly enough, my ex-sales manager went to work for a smaller manufacturer. The company happened to be owned by an ex-employee of mine.
Goes to show you, never burn any bridges… Never leave a place with a bad taste in your mouth, or at least try not to. This new place was also furniture manufacturing. They were an old-fashioned manufacturer and not up to speed on the latest tech in this low-tech industry. I was happy to join them and happy to be away from a very toxic workplace.
Into the dark ages. But a better environment.
Working for nice people is amazing. This was now the third job I had in a very short time. I went from working in one place for nearly all my life to adding a few places to my resume.
As my son commented one day, “It was good to get paid for something I already knew.” But working in a place that was not willing to progress was a bit frustrating and a little boring.
There were no specs, SOPs or any sort of order tracking here. Everything was manual and they needed quite a lot of help with spec sheets, CAD files and so on. I loved the challenge and the opportunity to make a positive change.
The more things change. The more they stay the same.
Having been used to working with CAD, Solid-Works and Gerber Accu-Mark systems. I was going back to the dark ages, people using solvent-based glues and not an automated machine insight. Going from automated hot-melt gluing lines to all manual gluing and cutting was a step backwards.
All that aside, it was wonderful to work with amazing, honest and hardworking people. Good people in a warm and caring environment was a nice change from the previous place I set up. The only difficulty was that they were set in their ways. The change they so desperately wanted, well, they didn’t want.
Boredom at work. What to do?
What happens when you move backwards? The low tech of furniture manufacturing. Yes, there are updated automatic sewing machines. There are automatic cutters and CNC machines, there are automated gluing systems. It is not the same as automotive manufacturing. Every process is human-driven and while there are fully automated systems they only work for large-scale production. While all this was kind of boring and slow for me. A very old friend came calling.
I didn’t know it yet but I was about to make a drastic career change…
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Zsolt Zsemba 