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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 polished PC manufacturing company,SmacData. Until my supervisor resigned it was a great job. Immediatelyafter he resigned business quadrupled, we landed our first contract to build thousands of PCs. In the outgoing weonly built a hardly a(prenominal) hundred PCs a month. This would open been a greatopportunity, except for the presidents philosophy to work a few people todeath at low wages and then accept fresh pe ople. At this time I had todecide whether to find a give away job, quit , or stay and suffer. At firstI really made an effort to reign e precisething, but when there was not acrisis, or constant chaos and production was under make managementthought that was the sign they where not pushing hard enough. In additionthey were hiring people with little or no qualifications to assemble and advantage PCs. Of which I was responsible for the fini shed quality and thespeed of production. I was working(a) long 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 drop off computer parts. Thiscreated an environment 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 included 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 damage control as a result of these unscrupulous practices. Itwas at this point that I was losing sleep or not sleeping at all. Anothertrait 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 cause problems. tied(p) so, most of the time my coworkers where manageable. Manag ement had spent years perfecting the techniques of back stabbing, ways to cause discord, and fighting among employees. All of these issuesmade me seriously consider resigning. vacant I would be unable to paymy bills, and considerable debt. I was reinforcement on my own since I startedat SmacData. During this same times my parents where in the process of