That is soooooooo very, very true. Well at least for the one big fiber optics company I worked for.
I worked in the instrumentation department and some of the meters that we built cost anywhere from $20,000 to as much as $50,000. So for that price you would think there would be the highest of quality. End of quarter comes around and management wants to ship as much as they can out the door. There was unlimited overtime for everyone. Labour laws be damned, just get the stuff out the door. If we failed stuff in final calibration, management would fudge the numbers to put them in spec and ship the stuff out anyways. Nevermind the fact that they would forge my signature on the Certificate of Calibration. A month or two later the customer would return the meter on an RMA and that's when they would get recalibrated and if they failed would be repaired correctly. For the longest time we had a reputation for $#!+ products but we were basically the only game in town.
So why did management do this?? Because if they met or exceeded their quota they would get a HUGE BONUS on their pay. Quality never meant a thing. A huge bonus meant alot more. Greed. Pure and simple greed.
Wylde1.