Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 I will pray that you don't get a job cut. You will find ways to get around the money it is the job that he has to keep. Lori Cutbacks Hi all! Start crossing your fingers for us. Dh is a contract worker who works for General Motors. GM wants costs cut back, so as usual, it's the contract companies doing the cutting. We find out next week how bad it will be. So far the possibilities are pay cuts, no paid holidays, either no paid vacations or a decrease in the amount of time they already have earned, and the real scary one, job cuts! Then if the job survives, his company's contract is up for renewal in February. So, do whatever you do to bring us good luck....Please? Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2001 Report Share Posted December 7, 2001 Wow, definitely keep up informed. Hopefully next week we can tell you, " Good for you guys, it's such a relief... " > Hi all! > Start crossing your fingers for us. Dh is a contract worker who works for General Motors. GM wants costs cut back, so as usual, it's the contract companies doing the cutting. We find out next week how bad it will be. So far the possibilities are pay cuts, no paid holidays, either no paid vacations or a decrease in the amount of time they already have earned, and the real scary one, job cuts! Then if the job survives, his company's contract is up for renewal in February. So, do whatever you do to bring us good luck....Please? > Sue > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 So, do whatever you do to bring us good luck....Please? > Sue Will do. Hope it works out. Salli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 -- Sue, I hope dh comes away unscathed. Does he have a lot of seniority in the company? It is scary. I know the auto industry has its ups and downs. Good Luck. Thea - In parenting_autism@y..., " smgaska " <smgaska@n...> wrote: > Hi all! > Start crossing your fingers for us. Dh is a contract worker who works for General Motors. GM wants costs cut back, so as usual, it's the contract companies doing the cutting. We find out next week how bad it will be. So far the possibilities are pay cuts, no paid holidays, either no paid vacations or a decrease in the amount of time they already have earned, and the real scary one, job cuts! Then if the job survives, his company's contract is up for renewal in February. So, do whatever you do to bring us good luck....Please? > Sue > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Sending you good luck, Sue !!! DH's company has put a freeze on annual pay increases (again). yuck. Penny - who's dh works for a GM supplier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 In a message dated 12/8/2001 11:24:50 PM Central Standard Time, reynoldspm@... writes: << That's like at 's work they are discussing forced leave without pay for everyone next year as a way to deal with some of the cutbacks. That way most folks can keep their jobs, pay raises are going to be like 2 or 3% for faculty, I don't think management (that's us) will get any. Faculty got the 2% cause they threatened a union walkout. So, we'll see. It's grim looking overall budget wise but at least we have a steady job and insurance (even if I'm really really upset with them right now about the disability discrimination thing). As always, it could be worse. Not that it isn't difficult, but it could be worse. >> Boy am I glad I work for me...of course I fire me about every 2-3 hours...then I have to make up with me and hire me back. I'm forced to....I have to pay me. Seriously...I was talking in the paint store the other day with some other contractors....all the smaller outfits are busier than shit around here....ever since the attacks...go figure. The bomb shelter business is booming too...no kidding. I'm right there with them...busier than I've ever been....of course I fired everyone....I got sick of paying people to screw up... Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Penny, My sympathies to you! Sue Subject: Re: Cutbacks > Sending you good luck, Sue !!! > > DH's company has put a freeze on annual pay increases (again). > > yuck. > > Penny - who's dh works for a GM supplier ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum & refcd=PT97 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 Thea, Thanks. He'd probably be safer if he actually was a GM employee. He'd have the Union and the GM wages (I wish). Re: Cutbacks > -- > Sue, > I hope dh comes away unscathed. Does he have a lot of seniority in > the company? It is scary. I know the auto industry has its ups and > downs. Good Luck. > > Thea > > > > > > > > > - In parenting_autism@y..., " smgaska " <smgaska@n...> wrote: > > Hi all! > > Start crossing your fingers for us. Dh is a contract worker who > works for General Motors. GM wants costs cut back, so as usual, it's > the contract companies doing the cutting. We find out next week how > bad it will be. So far the possibilities are pay cuts, no paid > holidays, either no paid vacations or a decrease in the amount of > time they already have earned, and the real scary one, job cuts! > Then if the job survives, his company's contract is up for renewal in > February. So, do whatever you do to bring us good luck....Please? > > Sue > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2001 Report Share Posted December 8, 2001 That's like at 's work they are discussing forced leave without pay for everyone next year as a way to deal with some of the cutbacks. That way most folks can keep their jobs, pay raises are going to be like 2 or 3% for faculty, I don't think management (that's us) will get any. Faculty got the 2% cause they threatened a union walkout. So, we'll see. It's grim looking overall budget wise but at least we have a steady job and insurance (even if I'm really really upset with them right now about the disability discrimination thing). As always, it could be worse. Not that it isn't difficult, but it could be worse. > , either no paid vacations or a decrease in the amount of time they already have earned, and the real scary one, job cuts! > > > Sue: It is illegal to take away benefits already earned, so they cannot take away time he's already accrued. They can change the structure for the future though. > > Keeping my fingers crossed that he still has a job though when this is all done! > > Kerri > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2001 Report Share Posted December 9, 2001 > Boy am I glad I work for me...of course I fire me about every 2-3 > hours...then I have to make up with me and hire me back. I'm forced to....I > have to pay me. Sounds lively! Now I am even more eager to have you come here and do repairs. And I can see that I was thinking too small. I have LOTS for you to do. Finish several of my basement rooms; we have a finished playroom, but how about the utility room? It needs better lighting and floors and walls. Maybe a basement bathroom? That would really be handly. And the storage room? Some built in shelves, a proper floor and better lighting. And the bomb shelter. Yes, the bomb shelter. Unfinished for years and years; you can see the figures written on the wall where the person building it realized that it was just too much weight to make a proper bombshelter (such as they have next door) and he gave up. That could be made into some kind of little room; perhaps a wine cellar. > > Seriously...I was talking in the paint store the other day with some other > contractors....all the smaller outfits are busier than shit around > here....ever since the attacks...go figure. The bomb shelter business is > booming too...no kidding. And I hadn't even READ this when I wrote what I wrote above. My bombshelter dates from the late fifties, early sixties, I would imagine. So. I was planning to make it into a wine cellar, a sort of swords into plough shares idea, and apparently I should be bugging you to finish my bomb shelter...Hmm. You think I could store wine in my bomb shelter if you finished it? Might be nice for those nights when the bombs are falling. > I'm right there with them...busier than I've ever been....of course I fired > everyone....I got sick of paying people to screw up... > Buy those buses, Ron, and persuade Terry somehow. The families of PA need you! Salli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Here's plenty of good thoughts coming your way. Janae , 9, ADD Jake, 6, autism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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