kingofdodge7131

Whats the point? Here i graduate and stay with the company that helped me through school for a purty decent pay cut. Had an offer closer to home for 14/hr + incentives and stayed there for 12

Go apply back home and they just fired me. Outa the blue i was " too slow" By the way im a heavy truck mechanic. Started last month full time because ( it was going good) and then bada bing.


Hope dodge hires me. Then its every man for himself

Call it discruntled employee but the EPA shall be visiting them soon enough. Think they can get away with runnil oil in the drains psh

bdramsey

Sorry to hear about losing your job. That stinks. Here where I live there's not a local diesel mechanic school. I have only been able to find them in Dallas area, so I would think that the demand would be high here.

there is not anymore company loyalty, companies think we are just a number now. In Texas here they don't need a reason to fire someone. Kinda the bummer part about it, but if I were an employer, I would want the freedom of being able to fire/hire anyone I wanted.

Dieseldude4x4

Company loyalty to the employees for the most part went out in the 70's when the factories found they could get labor for one tenth the cost across the borders and started moving out. Zenith was one of the first ones I remember doing that. You're / we're nothing more than an expense now. It's easy to keep the cost down on a car or anything else when you pay your employees five or ten dollars a day.
Good luck and hope the new job works out.

Shovelhead

We are no longer "Employees" or "Associates".
We are now a consumable resource.

Use 'em up,...... toss 'em out.......Next

apache

The old man used to tell me to watch out for myself, period. These days it seems loyalty is gone. some hatchet man comes in and cans all the 20 year employees just cause. Not right, but happening all over. Remember the only one you gatta be loyal to is yourself and your family. Better yourself when you can, learn, work and move on to richer rice feilds when the oppourtunity comes knockin. just dont burn any bridges in the process.

dually drooler

apache- your pappy was right! The hatchet man gets rid of the 20 year people to cut the retirement fund required so that the company has more capital to play with. If they leave w/out retirement they only get what they (employee put in) therefore the company doesn't have to use any of it's money and can shift the funds that were covering that employee to something else such as a bonus for "hatchet harry". it has happened to often here in the south with the cotton mills and saw mills! Also have to remember new employee starts at much lower wage (hasn't had 20 years of pay raises. 3-4-5 weeks paid vacation etc, etc!)

kingofdodge7131

Thats the sad part of this company. hightest paid guy 17.54. How long has he been there? 32 years

DieselDaze

Sadly, this is becoming the reality. Im fortunate to have the position Im in currently, but even this could go away with little to no warning.

I fear that we are all becoming "Copper Tops".


Rich

Rammer64

This started the disposible revolution and it's moved on to FORD products and people.

Hannibal

Maybe unions aren't obsolete any more...

MnTom

Yep, the pendulum is swinging back.

firestorm

I Work for a big company, in the Orlando, Florida area. Although Florida is a 'Right to work' state, meaning the employer can hire and fire whoever they want, I am under a union. The good thing about the union is, they do have a 'contract' to help protect our jobs. If they fired me because I was late for the second time this year, they will step in and basicly tell the company to give me my job back, produce a legitimate reason to let me go, or fire everybody who has been late 2 time this year. They do have a written contract and unless the 2nd tardiness is grounds for termination, is in the contract, they can't let me go. The union is helpful, but not as strong as it should be.

Hannibal

I'm also union in Florida. We have a very good relationship with the company I've worked for going on 24years. I've never even seen a greivance. However, since we rely on each other safety wise, when a slacker gets let go, there usually isn't too much support in getting him rehired. We have a good crew and office.

bdramsey

A guy that worked for my company was caught looking at **** while at a customers site, he had enough service to retire, so they gave him the option of retire or get canned. He chose to retire, good choice but not the best timing. If he'd have been canned, then he would have lost all of it immidiatly, but because of the union he was able to take his retirment.

Geico266

I've been self-employed for 20 years now. Glad I did, but I have a real jerk for a boss.