In Tough Times...

So these days the company makes a lot of decisions about the tough times we are in. Layoffs, cut backs, LEAN thinking...

But lets be clear that the cut backs only extend to those that are expendable to the corporation. For instance:

We spent 15 million dollars on a new facility in 2008. Flat Screen TV's for the break rooms, state of the art shop, brand new furniture etc...The picture displayed in my office on the wall...guess how much it cost...WRONG... 6500 dollars. There are probably 30 of those in the building.


BUT WAIT! We have to cut the following:

1. All OT for my hourly employees (that's basically cutting away about 15% of their income)
2. Cutting driver hours to 25 hours a week (they averaged about 35-40, don't get benefits and get paid about 12 bucks an hour.)
3. No more holiday parties.
4. Don't change the oil in your car until 8000 miles.
5. Reimbursement for driving miles during business hours was cut (it now stands about .10 a mile)
6. I was denied a $500 dollar party I wanted to throw for my employees at the end of the year.
7. Layoffs in the shop

Etc...

Even with all those cuts, you could have saved MORE money by not buying those bloody truck pictures!

108 days to go.

JK