I work in auto manufacturing in the US. Not directly making cars but making parts that go into cars.
The amount of work we’ve been doing is insane - overtime pretty much every day for the past two months to keep up with orders.
But that makes no sense. All these cars we’re helping to produce, who the hell is buying them? Nobody has money for a new car. Most people in my city seem to be driving cars that are at least a few years old rather than brand new.
I do the math in my head and it doesn’t make sense. Who is buying all these cars? Are they even selling? It seems like a scam of some kind.
You may be catching up with old shortages and refilling inventories.
See, they claim it’s to “build up inventory for two days” but this goal seems unattainable and also hadn’t been attained prior to me working here. Allegedly they hadn’t worked OT for some months before now too which is why I don’t buy that excuse.
For as long as I’ve worked here we’ve never been two days ahead of schedule.
Maybe they’re trying to flog out some last minute production for end of year accounting reasons, or (worse) because of the upcoming plant closing that they haven’t told you about yet
I doubt the plant is closing as it’s also the corporate HQ. It wouldn’t be closing unless they were moving buildings or shutting the whole company down, and they wouldn’t be able to hide either of those things.