"I learnt 3 days ago after an incident between Mr. Kocon and me that he'd questioned and rejected..." "by what right" "I don't know who authorized him - a whole batch of engines." "Well, after all we live in a state and society that abides by some standards." "I am not talking about ethical standards but technical norms applied everyday." "Mr. Kocon, who authorized you to reject a whole batch of engines?" "I represent the working women's committee." "Everybody has ignored both the issue and that part of the workforce." "Let's think about the consequences of the 83% plan execution." "That they won't get a bonus, go home and have often nothing for the pot." "And we're discussing the issue very generally." "Let's not be afraid to call a spade a spade." "The whole workforce, women in this case, is definitely more important that a single man who may have landed himself in a fine mess." "Comrades, I will tell you why... the issue of rejected engines has been raised by manager Kocon." "He does not care about a bonus because since he earns 4, 8 or 7,000 zlotys, the bonus he will get makes no difference to him." "As I earn 2,800 zlotys." "Overtime... means my effort my own effort." "My hands." "I must support 2 children and an unemployed wife, and I do care about a bonus." "Thank you, the production head will take the floor." "As we've heard 25% of the engines were defective." "Correct." "But why 75% of the engines were not cleared by comrade Kocon?" "If they were, the plan could have been executed." "But comrade Kocon, which I was told in private" " he didn't do it openly, said:" "We'll see them wriggle like an eel." "I mean:" "Who will wriggle?" "Tell us, comrade Kocon?" " Go ahead, go ahead!" " And what's more." "I want to..." "Excuse me, do you want to have the remarks minuted?" "I am ready to present... the evidence to prove my point." "I think engineer Kocon will have something to say on the issue." "I think first and foremost that the comments by the production manager are totally biased." "I have a feeling that he tries to hold me accountable for the whole issue." "I absolutely reject it." "I can cite one specific case that occurred, which caused the plan to fall through." "That I rejected the engines:" "They were simply rusty, they were rusty due to negligence." "All you needed to do was to preserve them." "And this is done in every single decent company." " He is telling the truth." " Had I not rejected the engines, the plan would have been executed 85% and not 83%." "That illustrates the scope of my possible responsibility, if any." " Go ahead, comrade!" " Comrades, I would like to stress one issue." "The aim of our today's meeting, is, one the one hand, to find the sources of evil and, on the other hand, to make comrade" "Kocon, a young good engineer, aware of how to approach some issues." "Personally, I am his colleague, and also department manager." "Personally, I was very surprised that all his comments contained no self-criticism at all." "I have notes from the last three meetings of the workers' social committee concerning the activity of comrade Kocon." "They contain his comments I may have ineptly taken down." "Comrades, I am submitting them to the Presidium, you can figure out what issues were raised, what he talked about and what his conclusion were." "They were similar to the ones he put forward today." "Round phrases, again and again, round phrases..." "As a matter of fact, what other comrades said, a sales department colleague and others, that he keeps criticizing us just to criticize but no specific conclusions are drawn." "He may be right." "Their critical..., his critical remarks lead nowhere." "He criticizes other departments..." "But excuse me," "I have submitted them to the presidium." "Quiet, please!" "All right, the production head wants to say something." "If Mr. Kocon's comment was true, I'd have praised it." "It seems to him that he is the man who knows everything." "That he is a walking encyclopedia." "And I say you may agree with that or contest his theoretical expertise, but truly, comrade Kocon, you can learn a lot of practical things from us, experienced workers." "We wanted to help you." "You didn't take our advice." "Thank you." "Engineer Kocon, whatever you are told even during this meeting, you have your own arguments." "After all, it is impossible to get on with such a person." "As if you held us in total contempt." " I think that none of the arguments is a subject-related argument indicating non-execution of the plan, which seems to be the key topic of the meeting." "The charges... accusing me of overstating the quality and all related consequences that I am bothersome to other workers and other departments, that I fight - from my point of view - seem to be inappropriate." " Everything is all right, isn't it?" " I know that this results from some bad practices of the company, from turning a blind eye to the production bungles of other departments but I think it was my duty, as a newcomer, to stop the practices." "Engineer Kocon has spoken of work style." "And what work style does he represent?" "When I attended a meeting of the Polish Engineering" "Association, I saw him drink alcohol with his shift foremen." "Quiet, quiet comrades, please." "Comrade, go ahead!" " Is this work style?" "With his men." "Please, write this down, will you?" "Besides, he walks into my room and makes a scene in the presence of my colleagues and workers." "Is it a new work style?" "A new management style?" "Thank you." "Thank you, please, be quiet comrades." "Please, go ahead!" "An industrial security guard wants..." "When we were planting trees by the entrance, the engineer... he didn't soil his hands by working..." "That's what I wanted to say in the discussion." "Thank you." "I want to say briefly." "He curbed our initiatives in the past." "He explained that we were simply stupid." "When we wanted to form a youth band, we weren't allowed to go rehearsing because of this or that." " Quiet please!" "...I have heard just a few things about the performance of engineer Kocon." "The cleaning lady told me a few weeks ago that while she was cleaning Mr. Kocon's room, she found six empty bottles of alcohol." " Exactly." "Exactly." " That proves something." "This shows that the engineer not only maintains interpersonal relations with his employees after hours but you may not rule out that these relations are also maintained during working hours." " What relations?" " Alcohol drinking." "We know what he is talking about." "We are at home, as you spread rumours..." " That's right." " Yes." "Stop spreading rumours!" " I've left an item for the end, and I find it difficult..." "Comrade Kocon is a newcomer here and he is being closely watched." "This monitoring concerns not only the production plant, not only what he does at work, not only his expertise we have discussed in detail but also his private affairs." "I think all of us know the private family situation of comrade Kocon." "After all, we know that he and his wife are separated but that would be saying too little, he lives an immoral life." "He maintains a child and he doesn't support it, does he?" "I don't mean child support." " Comrades, order please!" " The comrade lives in a company-owned bloc of flats." "The workers keep watching him, know about his night trips." "His conduct." "Comrades, it seems to me that the affairs cannot be ignored." "Not only the scope of official and professional duties but also moral responsibility." "The comrade educates these young people who are and are not members of the Socialist Youth Union." "I think that such a person cannot perform such a responsible managerial function." "Thank you." "Let me present the transcript of the psychological test of engineer" "Kocon from the point of view of the psychologist and of psychological ethics." "I will only comment on the facts that have been somehow raised here and are known to the assembly." "Who has asked you to present the psychological test I agreed to take two years ago?" "A person who is present in the room..." " Just her?" " I've asked him to comment on the subject, in general, present his opinion and assessment." "Well..." "The patient's psychological record is as follows..." "I am sorry to interrupt but I have a question, isn't it, by accident, doctor-patient privilege?" "No." "Maybe I would treat the matter in this way that we are all experts on personnel affairs because many comments have been made on the issue." "And therefore, perhaps..." "Sorry to intervene." "It seems to me that the best thing will be if you commented on the issue without citing official examination reports." "No, comrade." "That won't do any good..." "All of this is made-up, some rubbish that shouldn't be the subject of a serious meeting." "Production is the issue we are interested in." "What has been done in this regard?" "That sounds like a saying 'give a dog a bad name and hang him.'" "So, engineer Kocon has become the worst, the meanest person, a louse at last." "You see, you're saying it yourself." "Comrade, it's not the point to pick me up on every word." "In your opinion, because I haven't finished yet, in your opinion he is a louse." "But in my opinion it is a worthy representative of young engineers." "A very ambitious person." "We are trying to crush that young ambitious man." "We want to destroy his dignity." "Comrade Marczak said comrade Kocon is young." "Well, he may be young in the eyes of comrade Marczak." "In our eyes he is not as that young." "However, there is the generation gap between us and him, and in principle, we should not mix the two issues..." "On the other hand, ours is a youth organization, and on the other hand, we have moral issues and the shit engineer Kocon is probably in." "The organization is not interested in these affairs, what matters is that he caused bad blood among the workforce." "Causing bad blood, generating animosity among the workers." "That's what his role has been so far." "He made all of us feel that way." "Who helped you do your homework at the technical college?" "Don't mix the things up!" "Let's not mix the things up." " Who tutored you?" " One thing is sure." "He wasn't one of" " Please, don't interrupt!" " Us." "Our initiatives were stifled, which may be confirmed by others who had experienced this." "It sickens me when I listen to this." "I've already raised up my hand..." "I don't know if I am small or what." "I didn't want to knock on the chair because it'd have been impolite." "I am not as that important." "People, come to your senses!" "Let's keep a cool head!" "What an example this is for young people when today we are firing the one who tells truth, who is uncompromising and doesn't bow to the management." "You came to me 3 months ago, we talked about the engineer." "What did you say?" "That this has to be stopped." " Quiet, please!" " No, that's not true." "I said he was young and that, in fact..." "Excuse me, I did not interrupt while all of you were talking, I kept quiet in the corner... and when I raised up my hand." "Wait!" "Wait!" "I haven't finished yet because today we fire Kocon and when the plan fails again, we will fire Kwiatkowska, and you, and the young man who forgot that Kocon had tutored him." "'What goes around comes around.' We'll be firing!" "You don't even know when!" " Thanks for warnings and quotations from the book of Polish proverbs..." "Please, please..." "All right... " "I want the comrade head manager to take the floor." "Thank you." "The conclusion for today is the engineer Kocon case." "I'm not involved and not going into details of many matters." "The speakers have taken the floor, have expressed their views." "I mostly share their views." "An interesting thing is one issue" "Mr. Kocon has spoken about." "He struggles for quality." "And what do we do?" "Are we against?" "Excuse me." "We also care about quality." "After all, if the plan was executed according to schedule, then he would be right." "But in this case, I think that nothing will excuse him." "Exercising my rights, I will take severe consequences against those who deserve it." "Thank you very much." "Thank you very much." "The Plenum of the Workplace Council is entitled to request the company head manager that engineer Kocon be dismissed from the post." "Who is for?" "Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty." "Twenty two, twenty four, twenty six, twenty eight..." "You have been strongly involved in our today's 'staging' but I think we will have a break in the psychodrama and discuss how you felt when playing the parts, what comments and impressions you have from the psychodrama." "That's all for today." "I felt bad when I played Blazejowa and when they pointed out a bonus but then I thought that it was just a psychodrama so I didn't have to worry." "The best moments were remarks below the belt, when you were under fire when you no longer represented the role but yourself." " Defended his right position." " I must admit that at one instance" "I came to the conclusion that I might be guilty..."