No one ever hires scabs, they just force the office people to work these insane shifts to cover.
Maybe it depends on the industry or workplace, but this would be unthinkable at every place I've worked at. Throwing untrained salaried workers at tasks they have no experience with is both doomed to fail and will make the problem worse by forcing those workers to start looking elsewhere.
They aren't "untrained". They don't pull accountants or anything like that to do skilled tasks. They ask engineers who work in maintenance, or do process design or machinery upgrades. People who know how the shit sorta works but don't run it all day long normally.
Process engineers or some others might be able to replicate tasks for processes or equipment they’re familiar with, but there are likely far fewer people in engineering roles who could do that than there are production line workers. Even then, knowing how a process or piece of machinery works certainly isn’t a guarantee that they can perform certain tasks to level of quality or speed of a line worker who’s been doing it for years.
Maybe it depends on the industry or workplace, but this would be unthinkable at every place I've worked at. Throwing untrained salaried workers at tasks they have no experience with is both doomed to fail and will make the problem worse by forcing those workers to start looking elsewhere.
They aren't "untrained". They don't pull accountants or anything like that to do skilled tasks. They ask engineers who work in maintenance, or do process design or machinery upgrades. People who know how the shit sorta works but don't run it all day long normally.
Process engineers or some others might be able to replicate tasks for processes or equipment they’re familiar with, but there are likely far fewer people in engineering roles who could do that than there are production line workers. Even then, knowing how a process or piece of machinery works certainly isn’t a guarantee that they can perform certain tasks to level of quality or speed of a line worker who’s been doing it for years.