From the blog
Stories, encouragements and random thoughts from the Jobap team
Inspiration for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Have you ever heard of Rosie the Riveter? Or maybe you have seen the famous picture?
Rosie the Riveter originated in a song written in 1942 by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. She represented women in the workforce, and has since continued to be an inspiration for women across the country. There are many women who have been identified as the “original”, but we may never know the truth about her true identity.
During World War II, nearly 19 million women held jobs due to the men going off to fight the war. Approximately 16 million of those women had held jobs during World War I as well. They worked in factories and shipyards, picking up where the men were forced to leave off. Some say that this began the feminist movement, ushering in the era of women in the workplace.
March 21, 2017 is National Rosie the Riveter Day. On this day we can celebrate women’s independence and our place in the workplace. Women have come a long way! Today women are now majority owners in at least 35% of US employer firms. According to https://www.lendio.com/blog/women-business-statistics, in 2024 women owned 13.8 million businesses, employing 10 million workers and generating 3.9 trillion in revenue across the US.
Jobap Assembly is proud to be part of those statistics. If you ever stop in our office, you’ll see a picture of Rosie the Riveter, continuing to inspire us to be all that we’ve been created to be: Moms, daughters, sisters and business owners.
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/free-download.php?image=rosie-the-riveter&id=528638
Our very own Rosie the Riveter, a machine converted from numerous pieces of equipment, that we used to make weights.
We retired her in 2015.
Who Makes This Stuff?
Have you ever thought about all the millions of components you use daily, and where they come from?
I remember the day that I was walking through the shop and went, oh, wait! That stuff we buy in the store, someone puts it together! And today, that someone is me!
Stop and think about it though!
Do you ride a bus home from the city? We help it run.
Do you drive a car? We help make repairs for that.
Do you use batteries? We have a hand in that.
Ever wonder how washing machines stay balanced? We help with that, too.
From the electricity running through your home to the band you listen to on Friday nights, we had a hand in that.
That’s what we do!
That’s Jobap.
Lending America a helping hand.
One Man’s Mistake is Another Man’s Treasure
Imagine with me that you have a large order to complete for a customer. You place the order for the components and you wait, hoping everything will come in when it’s supposed to. After all, the end customer is waiting.
The order arrives on time! That’s perfect timing because you have your team lined up to get this thing assembled so it can ship when it’s supposed to. You open up the box and…. Wait, this doesn’t look right! Isn’t this part supposed to be white with blue lines? It’s white with purple lines! These parts aren’t any good! All that time waiting for the parts to come in, and from overseas by the way, and they aren’t even the right parts. I never saw this coming. What now?
This is when you call Jobap. We’re a little like Bob the Builder. “Can we fix it? Yes, we can!” After all, you can’t ship that part back to Timbuktu, there just isn’t time. It has to get fixed, and it has to get fixed now.
One of our biggest assets here at Jobap is our creativity. When this happened in real life, we had to figure out how to correct the paint color on this piece. Now we weren’t actually going from purple to blue, but we did have to figure out how to color correct a huge number of pieces for our customer.
So what did we use?
Nail polish! Lots and lots of nail polish!
(Of course this was approved by the end user prior to completing.)
We were able to color correct the pieces in a timely manner and our customer was able to complete their order as required. Jobap saves the day again!
Use what you have, like my Grampy always said. But that’s a story for another day!
