A solution somewhat

Thanks for the e-mails, comments and suggestions last night as I was wallowing in self pity last night regarding the analysis I'd done for work.

While going through the workflow model over a couple of adult beverages last night I spotted a couple of areas in need of more hours of productivity. I headed back to the hotel and worked up several scenarios, models and hacked out an analysis involving two shifts in certain areas versus one shift with overtime and weekends as necessary.

After mapping out the workflow with a second shift, keeping the same employees the bottle necks were removed and the modeled average turn around time reduced from seven to three days and overtime production costs should be dramatically reduced (keeping in mind we’re dealing with averages and theories here).

I reviewed both reports with the owners today who both seemed to like the second shift model since it allows for additional growth while keeping the employees around. The one thing I'd originally be concerned with was the disruption of their lives as some of them are forced to move to second shift hours. Then I realized that working a second shift hours are a whole lot better than not working at all.