Mr. Brownstar - Power Monger

In an effort to earn brownie points with the Upper Crust, Mr. Brownstar has taken it upon himself to start up a 5-S movement within our facility.

He has let the entire experience go straight to his crimson comb-over head.

I have to say, I did sit back and chuckle this morning when I thought about how the whole experience has not gone the way he had envisioned. I know Mr. Brownstar was thinking he would come out looking like a model manager 5-S king.

Instead, he has made himself into a numbskulled jack ass who is desperately trying to control a team who has matured and moved on without him.

What had started out to be Mr. Brownstar's vision of a 5-S team comprised completely of hourly folks who would be forced to do all the work while Brownstar basked in the glory has turned into a 5-S team that is comprised entirely of production managers where Brownstar is just one of the group, nothing else.

He is NOT liking it.

Last night we had all assembled in the conference room, ready and prepared for our second meeting for the 5-S team. Conversation had begun without Brownstar, he was his customary 15 minutes late.

"Oh, I see you started out without me," Mr. Brownstar had commented as he cruised into the conference room with an easel and a big yellow post-it pad designed for the easel.

"Uh, yeah, the meeting starts at 3:30," Calamity Jane stared pointedly at Brownstar.

"Ok, I was just rounding up some stuff so we can plan this thing......." at that Brownstar begins to go into an in depth monologue rehashing all of the issues from the past meeting.

"Excuse me if I'm wrong, but, this is all stuff that was covered in the last meeting," Calamity Jane is beginning to get irritated.

"It is? Why didn't you stop me," Brownstar is getting irritated as well. Meeting is not going as he had envisioned.

"Nobody could get a word in edgewise, buddy," Calamity Jane has made the comment in a joking manner but we all know the true intentions.

"Well, ok then, let's get on with the meeting." It is now 30 minutes into the scheduled 60 minute meeting, Brownstar has brought us back to 'start'. "Can I get someone to draw on the easel please, we need to map this thing out, may get a time line on how we want this to go. I was thinking next week we could start with a walk thru." Everyone is literally staring at Brownstar.

Another week until the walk thru?? This is never going to get off the floor if we don't start to get some progress done immediately!

"I'm not waiting another fucking week to do a damn walk thru, let's get this show on the road," Big Dog is not impressed by Brownstar at all.

"What do you mean? Do you all feel this way?" Brownstar is up in arms, nobody will go along with his Dream Scheme.

"Well, yeah, we won't know what we've got to work with until we actually take a look at what we're fixing to change Brownstar," Calamity Jane is trying her best to be nice to Brownstar.

Background information: Calamity Jane was the 5-S instructor in the company she worked for previous to finding herself in her niche in our production floor hell.

Against his will, the meeting continues out on the production floor. What had been decided previously was the walk thru of the materials process. What happened in reality was a tour through the receiving and receiving inspection departments at the instruction of Brownstar.

Drawers were opened, comments were made, insinuations flew from Brownstar about what was necessary and what wasn't necessary for everyday production.

Everyone was beginning to resent the idea that Brownstar was even on the team. While it had been his 'idea' to get this thing started, he had completely shown himself to not be a good team member.

Our goals are to improve upon the production floor, his goal is to gain power and superiority.

I'm curious to see how this is going to pan out.