As I have said, bosses appreciate my organizing skills. Other employees often don't. I went to work one place, and had only been there a few days when another dishwasher left. A couple of days later the boss came up and said not to worry, he'd have somebody else in a couple of days.
"You really don't need another man," I told him. "There's only about a couple of hours that I'm really rushed. I can easily catch up before the end of the day. Another man standing around for hours is just a waste of money. You'd be much better off having one of the night crew come in during the rush then letting him go home and come back again and get after the night's rush. You could probably get by with two or three less dishwashers."
"I've noticed you've managed to do a lot more," the boss remarked. "The night crew can't seem to handle it. Would you mind coming in and showing them how you do things? I hate to admit it, but this is probably wrong. I need to cut costs here. If you could figure out what they're doing wrong I'd appreciate it."
"Sure!" I agreed.
I came in the next evening, and after only a little while realized what the problem was. The night crew shifted positions every half hour or so, and as they did so each man sat up the area for the waitresses coming in, and the cooks were uncertain to what they needed. I began to explain to them that they couldn't do this, that they had to stay in the same position all night, and everything had to be put in the same place so everybody could find them.
"No! No!" the senior dishwasher remarked, "You don't come in here and change things! I've worked here twelve years. You don't tell me how to do my work! We get bored doing the same things all the time. We like to move around, and everyone likes to have things where he wants to. We're not doing this! You just go home. I'll tell the boss we don't need your help."
As it was obvious I was going to get no cooperation, I left, explaining to the boss what the problem was the next morning, and told him there was nothing I could do without cooperation.
"You come back tonight," he remarked, "you'll get cooperation!"
I went in again that evening, and the boss did. He made it quite clear that the other dishwashers were to follow my instructions and the manager was to see to it that they did, or people were going to be fired.
"It isn't right," the senior dishwasher complained, "for this guy to come in here and change everything! We have a right to do things our way!"
"We've got to cut costs!" the boss told him, "We've got to make things more efficient. If we can't everybody's going to lose their job!"
"You can't do this!" the senior dishwasher pouted, "I'm leaving! It isn't right!"
"Fine," the boss answered, "If that's what you want!"
In a couple of weeks we had everything running smoothly. One of the night crew came in during the rushes, then stayed during the rush at night, and the second man finished up. We got rid of two dishwashers! The old senior dishwasher came back a few weeks later and begged for his job.
"Are you going to do things the way you're told?" the boss asked.
"No," the man announced, "the way we do things is all right."
"Then you can't come back," the boss answered.
It's too bad some people just cannot accept change, that they're so locked into doing things their way, the'd give up their livlihood rather than cooperate. Unfortunately, there's a lot of them in the world. That wasn't the first time I'd seen this situation, it won't be the last. Unfortunately this is human nature.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.