Oral stories
- ID:
- 49226
- Description:
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Interview with a man born in the village Rudno, near Lviv. The man went to work for Electron in 1972, after graduating from the College of Electronics. First, he was an adjuster, then a foreman, later – the head of the technical bureau and chief of the workshop. It was the 8th TV production shop. Working as an adjuster, the man studied by correspondence at the Polytechnic Institute. He mentions the phenomenon of "crunch culture" and that he did not understand why they had to keep overperforming by the end of the month. He also spoke about alcoholism, especially among adjusters, who were lower-level shop workers. He told how he organized a protest in the workshop against the introduction of fixed rates, in contrast to performance-based payments. The top management supported him and offered him a better position. The man tells how he traveled to Japan to buy the equipment and gain experience when he already held the position of deputy chief of the workshop. He recalls about the 1990's and how xenophobic attitudes towards leaders of Russian origin prevailed at the plant. He mentioned a secret workshop where TV samples brought from abroad were disassembled and then replicated for production. He also met his first wife in the 8th workshop. She worked at the TV sets packaging line. From 2004 to 2014, he was the commercial director of the television plant.
The recording was made in the village Sukhovolia. Interviewer – Myroslava Lyakhovych. - Collection:
- Industrial biographies of the city
