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Confronting the Deep Dark Dungeon
YOU ARE JUST OUT OF COLLEGE, tops in your class, interviewing for a job in manufacturing, and now you’re on your way to visit the shop floor. The noise is the first thing you notice as you enter the plant–the relentless pounding of huge presses clanking away at huge sheets of rolled steel. You stop to observe one of them and note that it looks something like a character from Star Wars–a thing with huge mechanical jaws that slowly open, then slam shut on its prey, to cut and pierce and shape it into a new form before spewing it out, only to quickly grab another.
In the aisles, vehicles scurry along with an endless variety of materials hanging precariously from forks that extend from the lower carriage. ...
