Posted: June 3rd, 2016

On returning to the workshop the first person he met was David Dobson, the other Project Manager, Philip asked if he could speak with him and David agreed.

WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT MECHANISM AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

On returning to the workshop the first person he met was David Dobson, the other Project Manager, Philip asked if he could speak with him and David agreed.  He asked David if he knew of any reason why the staff might be sabotaging the new project.  David appeared to have been bottling up his thoughts and feelings for some time, which flooded out in a torrent along the lines of “the Company have been producing grain silos for 20 years, if they were good enough for Ronald Arnott, why were they not good enough for his daughter?  Nobody asked the staff if we wanted to work on steel beams – what good are they to anyone, we are proud of producing grain silos for the farmers in Australia, that is what it says on our job descriptions ’employed to manufacture grain silos’, and another thing I have been with this Company 20 years and I am a good 15 years older than you.  I don’t like being told I am being given a pay rise to put me on the same level as you and nobody asked me if I would like the challenge of managing the new contract did they?”  With that he stormed off leaving Philip standing there.
Philip was stunned at David’s outburst and thought something urgent had better be done, so he drove over to Maitland to see Christine, after checking to see whether she was in the office.  He laid the whole scenario before her.  She responded by calling a company meeting the next day.  After again telling the staff what an important contract the Morisset bridgework was and how critical it was to complete on time, she announced she was giving them all a 10% pay rise as of today instead of waiting for them to complete the contract.