Glove Box Deep Thoughts

[JayDubBlazer]

So last night I needed to take me glove box apart to get to my radio and improve on how some of my wires are routed. While taking the cardboard insert out it dawned on me that somebody back in 1967 was hired to install these origami creations. Some recent high school grad was interviewed, in-processed and put to work almost 45 years ago with the sole purpose to install glove boxes. I began to ponder about what other crap jobs people started out on while building these rigs. I’m sure that putting in the HVAC lines and wires in the dash would have been a pain. Just think of all that newly stamped metal in the dash and how it would cut up your forearms as you try to weave it in place according to the assembly manual.
Take a step back in the manufacturing process and head over to where they formed all the metal for the frame and body. I’m sure a part of the stamping line wasn’t the safest place to work. I remember my first time in a larger factory and walking through an area with several 600 ton presses were set up in a line. One of the operators had a claw in place of his arm, an arm that he had lost on a similar press years ago.
Or the foundry where the engines, transmissions, and transfer cases where cast. There was no OSHA back then, the only regulation back then were your foreman and his quotas.
Sitting there in my passenger seat I just wondered where in the hierarchy of all the jobs and tasks required to assembly these trucks did the glove box installer rank. Because sitting there trying to remove that intractable piece of formed cardboard I was cussing up a storm.