[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

The Associated Press: Dell to close Winston-Salem, NC plant, lay off 905

They laid me off about three weeks ago, but I actually figured this would happen before or shortly after that came to pass. I was just the early wave of lay-offs it seems.

It just showed in the way they ran the whole place. All these incentives to be there in our area and they would squander so much money still. The scheduling was terrible, too. You could be there anywhere from five to seven days a week, ten hours each day and they wouldn't even give notice about weekends until like Thursday.

Let's do the math here, you pay Joe $14 an hour in the factor side, work him to the bone each day for up to 7 days a week, then they wonder why Joe and all the others are so fucking cranky all the time. Not only that, they're losing money hand over fist on Joe and the others.

But what if you worked Joe 36 hours one week and 48 the next, basically having him do 12 hour days three or four days week. This also means he has three to for days a week off. Joe is still making a fair bit of scratch, too. Moreover, you save a lot of said scratch on Joe and all the others, are able to keep the plant open 24/7 and have lots of happy people working there on a similar schedule.

Most other manufacturing companies actually do this. It works wonderfully. 12 hour shifts still suck ass, but having ample time off to rest is clearly there.

In news that followed the layoffs and foreshadowed closing, our state is demanding every cent invested in them back. Good. I actually think its not going far enough considering they just played the state for easy profits and left.

I was actually really happy to get the call they didn't need me, it was such a terrible place to work at, only the fact that my co-workers we able to keep each other in high spirits most of the time was what made the days there bearable. I met some cool people, but never had I seen such unanimous agreement in how much that job sucked. Even management hated being there.

Met a old guy that was actually a big old-school gamer. He did all the pen-and-paper stuff, did civil/revolutionary war simulations with those pewter figurines, he played all the MUDs and was really into WWII fighter plane sims. Had a clan he'd join up with online a lot and they'd reenact battles or come up with alternate scenarios just to blend in some competitive fun.

Anyway, if Dell comes to your town - know what you're in for. These guys just come to play you and leave. They were here almost three years and never showed any substantial job growth, just regular turn-over.

[Ferno]

Wish they'd bring some jobs to shitty ass Detroit....

[Kailea]

they did this over here in southeast TX as well, they open a call center here, and it did Dell calls for just over 3 years, then it was bought by WoW internet and Cable......

(yes its a real company)

They ran it like poo, and never cared how we felt, just monkeys working the gears. Now I do the onsite work for Dell.... and its pretty much the same thing -.- my company QaulxServ and another called BankTech merged...and some of their high ups got into places they should not have been.... now I go from 10 calls a week on average, to 4-5 -.- and I go from working in the cites around me, to working the next state over -.- its BS really.