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Oh No, Times must be tight
ark_ader:
I knew the bubble would burst sooner or later, and I think most of the people who got stuck or is stuck, is by their own stupid fault. To be fair, I'm really happy this economic tragedy is happening. There is not a better lesson to learn about saving money when your entire life is hanging by a thread.
I always like to live by the edge, and when the axe strikes I always side step it.
Learn to adapt and get rid of anything you can do without. Sell your cabs, collections and any junk in the garage.
You cannot side step anything when you are dogged by debt.
Get out of debt and learn to live life on the edge by being liquid.
Its infinitely more fun :cheers:
daywane:
unemployment is hard to read now
most factories are doing a new tactic
my factory has been doing this for months now
I will work this full week
Monday and Tuesday of next week and then plant shuts down till Feb 2ND
we will work 2 weeks and then shut down the rest of the month in March.
I was ticked off in November when my plant started this but now I see on the news it is happening all over the U.S.A.
Kentucky's Unemployment offices are getting slammed. The computer systems are constantly going down.
The system can not handle the amount of fillings each day
I have been lucky.
I am one of the few that has been going in and painting the machines, painting yellow walk way lines. and use vacation days . I only have 3 days left of vacation time till July 27Th ( I get 3 weeks ) & 7 more years to go before I get 4 weeks
My boss said he still needs work done during shut down.
Production manager said in the meeting today no one will work this time :dunno
DaOld Man:
Lucky for me, I work in an aluminum rolling mill and our business is doing pretty good right now. Even though our overtime has been cut back, there has been no talk of a layoff with over a thousand people working there.
This company is not affiliated with Alcoa, which just had a big layoff. And that is scary for us, because we could get hit too, if the economy doesnt pick up soon.
We make aluminum can sheet, which is eventually turned into beer and soft drink cans.
We do very little for the automotive industry, so the bad times they are going through hasnt hurt us much.
I do remember some very bad times in 1985-1987.
I got divorced in 86, then laid off from another aluminum plant in Indiana.
back then Indiana only paid 90 dollars a week un-employment and they would go a month sometimes without sending a check. And the child support I had to pay was 40 dollars a week.
So there was some very grim times for me back then. But the economy pulled through then, and I am sure it will this time.
SavannahLion:
Watch your meeting counts. When I worked in the private sector, we had full blown two hour meetings once a month and "quick meetings" once a week. In the last four jobs I held that was shut down through "down sizing" the meeting count would suddenly ramp up. At first it was two meetings a month and quick meetings every week. Then quick meetings were dropped and full meetings were occurring once a week. In the last job, it ended up being a four hour meeting every week. I learned after the first layoff to start looking elsewhere when the meeting count went up. Meant they had zero work, but didn't want to send people home for a variety of reasons.
daywane:
That's just what is going on now :-\
all the old timers are saying We just bought a bunch of new machines.....
All will be well soon. :blah: :blah: :blah:
I have not the hart to tell them that Florida Tile did the same thing 8 years ago and as soon as my line started with new presses it got shut down.
line 4 that is.
took over 3 years for me to bounce back from that body blow of being permanently laid off.
A company in Cal. shut down.
we bought the machines ( f@#&ing Junk) I mean 100 amp fuses ducktaped to the main wires!!!!) This is getting fixed now. Maintenance and I are just shocked at the looks of these machines
its going to be a pain in the butt.
service orders.
meaning 20 to 300 piece orders each.
3 or 4 hours change overs just to run a stinking 30 piece order on a machine that runs 500 pieces a hour
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