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My boss gave me responsibility for this big project once, where I had to plan a strategy for improving the amount of flexibility in our production section.
一次我的老板让我负责这个大项目，我需要计划提高我们生产部门灵活性的策略。
You see, there were people who could operate a specific machine, or do a particular part of the process,
你看，有操作某台机器的人或是负责进程中某个部分的人
but if someone was off sick or on holiday, nobody else could take over. It also meant that when people got bored with their job, they tended to leave.
但是如果有人休病假或休假的话，没人能够接管。这也意味着当人们对他们的工作感到厌烦时，他们倾向于离开。
So I was supposed to work out how to get everyone familiar with several machines.
所以我应该要解决如何让每个人都熟悉操作几台机器的问题。
Well, I didn't know the department very well, so I wanted to discuss my ideas with the shop floor workers,
我对这个部门并不是非常了解，所以我希望和车间工人讨论一下我的想法，
but morale had got so bad, most of them couldn't be bothered, and in the end, I can't claim I had much success.
但是士气很糟糕，大部分人不能被打扰，最终，我不能说自己取得了成功。
