Mr.
Halpern episode 3 As recalled by Mr. Bob Gumbinner
We
leased space at the corner of Ashburton and Warburton, which had been
a supermarket, to store rolls or stencil and other paper and to
finish the paper offset plates. When the time came to move in Mr.
Halpern, without any previous study came there ignored the layout
which I had made and directed where he wanted things located. When
we lost the lease for this building, Mr. Halpern and I looked at
several buildings on Wadsworth Ave. We did rent the one on the
corner of Wadsworth and Ashburton. Mr. Halpern on looking at the
building next to it which had been constructed very simply hired the
architect who had designed it, Joe Roth, to build the 12,000 square
foot building on the 2 Ashburton Ave. When the building at 137
Alexander St. was finished, I had to leave for a week, possibly go to
the German plant, when I returned instead of the orderly transfer of
the stencil finishing equipment and the layout I had planned, Mr.
Halpern had everything picked up and moved and the installation
started. Not only was production unnecessarily interrupted but we
had a poor material flow.
In
another instance, Mr. Halpern added a chemical to the stencils that
was supposed to increase the shelf life. It was done without my
knowledge. Thereafter, operators on that line started to have
eyesight issues. I investigated the situation and determined that
the cause of the eyesight problem was the chemical that Halpern
added. I removed it from the formulation without telling Halpern or
anyone. The eyesight problems went away. It could have been a field
day for the tort lawyers.