Opinion ID: 5341
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Wilson's Performance Problems

Text: Wilson's term as plant manager was similarly unsatisfactory. From July 1986 until he was fired in June 1987, the plant lost $3,859,092 dollars. In his best month, the total units produced was 151,104, and his average monthly production was 93,222 units. In the weeks before he was fired, Wilson had to shut down the plant because it was producing defective (lumpy and leaky) innertubes. The district court improperly excluded evidence of the performance of Wilson's successors as plant manager2, which demonstrates Wilson's poor performance as compared with his replacement. By the end of 1987, the plant managed to show a profit, which it never did under Wilson, and in February 1988, 243,500 units were produced; this figure was surpassed in March.