Dirty Dozen Tip #8: NEVER SAY “THANK YOU”*

People like to be recognized for their efforts, so you should avoid recognition at all costs, starving our personnel of the basic human need to be appreciated for something. Completely ignoring people when they are doing good work is a wonderful way to undermine them, and create an environment for failures to thrive. Even a pay raise is not as powerful as being thanked for a job well done. If you have ever been to a facility where no one is ever thanked for anything, you could make someone cry if you thanked him or her. People are nasty little crybabies.

One variation on this tip is to find a way to twist a situation so that you can actually reprimand someone for doing a good job. For example, let’s say a maintenance planner does a fine job of planning a major project, and the work is executed perfectly. Jump on the opportunity to speak to the planner in front of others, and say, “Well, Clem, you seem to have pulled off a miracle. I heard that you planned a job well. Maybe you can do that again some time, but I doubt it”. Mission accomplished. 

Tune in next week as we continue to expose the secret lives of seriously disturbed maintenance “professionals” with…

The Dirty Dozen Tip #9: Avoid Measurement at All Costs

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*All items or stories on this website regarding how to wreck your maintenance or reliability program are fictitious. We are using humor as a method to parody how programs and systems claim something positive but are doing the opposite. The purpose of said stories is to entertain and amuse and not to disparage any persons, or institutions, in any way and no malice is intended toward anyone or anything, nor should any be construed from the satirically based stories and fake news items. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental or is intended purely as a satire, parody or spoof of such persons and is not intended to communicate any true or factual information about that person. We believe our results show that we do have a system that consistently brings positive results when applied with our SmartSequencing™ algorithm. Please contact us if you want help getting your program producing the results you want.