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Smacdata SystemsIt was hard to sleep, even though I was exhausted. For approximately ayear and a half I was employed with a small PC manufacturing company,SmacData. Until my supervisor resigned it was a great job. Immediatelyafter he resigned business quadrupled, we landed our low contract to build thousands of PCs. In the past weonly built a few hundred PCs a month. This would have been a greatopportunity, except for the presidents school of thought to work a few people todeath at low wages and then hire fresh pe ople. At this time I had to answer whether to find a better job, quit , or stay and suffer. At firstI really made an effort to manage everything, but when thither was not acrisis, or constant chaos and production was under control managementthought that was the sign they where not pushing hard enough. In additionthey were hiring people with little or no qualifications to assemble andservice PCs. Of which I was responsible for the finished quality and thespeed of p roduction. I was working coherent hours seven days a week. It wasvery difficult to manage and train incompetent, and uninterest ed persons. On top of this some of the new employees would steal computer parts. Thiscreated an milieu of constant scandal and accusation. If I ran shortof worries I would entertain the thought of being accused of stealing andthe police taking me away. Other stress creators include the companieshabit of selling remanufactured parts as new, often times the quality ofthese parts was less than used parts. The better part of my job wasbecoming deterioration control as a result of these unscrupulous practices. Itwas at this point that I was losing sleep or not sleeping at all. Another attribute of my new coworkers, was that they were very friendly to my face butbehind closed doors they would do or say anything in their power to goagainst me or perplex problems. Even so, most of the time my coworkers where manageable. Management had spent years perfe cting the techniques of back stabbing,ways to cause discord, and fighting among employees. All of these issuesmade me seriously consider resigning. sluggish I would be unable to paymy bills, and considerable debt. I was living on my own since I startedat SmacData. During this same times my parents where in the swear out of