I've worked in a car factory for well over 20 years and I've seen it change, more and more work is being put on everyone to cut heads and save money and get cars out ASAP.
I was in a meeting the other week and the shift manager said "We need to cut 3 heads on each section", this means that the jobs those 3 people are doing get split up into small bits and are then given to the rest of the lads on the section, on top of their own work! Bearing in mind everything they do is timed to the last second, if the job is timed and it has 3 seconds spare they could for example give them another clip or part to fit. He then went on to say "Give them the work and then go back and time the jobs again in three months, that way they will be used to the jobs and will be able to do them quicker, leaving them time to do a bit more". I said "That's fine in theory, but what about when someone is off and you get a lend in or a new starter that doesn't know the job, how will they keep up?", he looked at me and said "You're just being negative", then carried on taking about something else that needed doing!!!
It's a joke, years back the lads would fit a part and if it didn't fit correctly or they had a problem they would take it off and do it again, now they don't have that time, so they just say and I quote "F**k it, I've not got time to fix that" and send it down the line hoping that QA see it and get it sorted. The other favourite saying is "Get it on get it gone" which is bad, but you can see why they say it!
Some of the sh*t and bodged fixes I've seen over the years are terrible, at times I've just put my hands on my head and said you can't do that, to which I got a reply of "It's all right the customer won't see it"....and they wonder why I don't drive a car they make