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Another black eye for outsourcing

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I punched out yesterday and had racked up 5 hours last week running a difficult job in swiss turning. It is a job that the company had before for an optoelectronics firm that took that job to Mexico... they couldn't touch our quality! we are in the middle of an order of 2,500 units that I have hit the halfway point  3  days ahead of schedule...

it is a problematic job on an older quirky machine, one that others had run before and were pulled off of. I ran 1,000 last time and only 750 passed QC, becausethey are so hard to make right... that 750 not only got me back on that job, but were instrumental in winning back the contract from Mexico.

HA.

Everyone can talk the talk but it sure feels good to walk the walk... I will have another 56 hours next week guaranteed thanks to that contract. I hate that particular job, but sometimes you need to suck it up and take one for the home team. 2 weeks ago I was in a different department and ran 4 machines all by myself... this is an understaffed department. I put out parts equal to 4 weeks in 1 week, we mayjust nail an iffy contract with another optoelectronics company because of the beaten deadline (which was Nov. 1st, but now it's 100% done and shipped).

I feel 100% justified in bashing outsourcing, and I am doing everything in my power to stop it (one contract at a time)... I will also do my part on election day...

savor the small victories!

Entry #52

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Avatar pigskin -
#1
what are you going to do on election day, vote foe Bush because Kerry and his wife, the former Mrs. Heinz, won't get the Heinz company to move its 50 plus overseas plants back to the U.S.?
Avatar hypersoniq -
#2
outsourcing means that jobs were here and now they are gone... H.J.Heinz and Co. has been a global company since the turn of the last century. Those plants were never here to begin with. In the food biz, global shipping wasn't practical in the 1900s. If you make food you make it close to the local consumer market.
Kerry and his wife own about 4% interest in the company, hardly controlling any decision of the Heinz company... I am a big fan of the Discovery Channel's MythBusters... I consider this latest republican myth Busted...

Bush kept sayingin the debates regarding Kerry's liberal senatorial record... "you can run but you can't hide"... that plays both ways, and to Bush's detriment.

Here's how I see it...
A vote for Kerry is like a first-time skydive... don't really know what to expect and it could be bad but odds are in your favor for a successful, albeit a bit bumpy jump.
A vote for Bush is akin to playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun... there is no way to come out alive.

I will vote for Kerry because Bush allowed MY job to be outsourced for no good reason... It's personal.
Avatar pigskin -
#3
O.K....you do realize that if you own 4% of a public company you have a big voice on the Board of Directors who in effect control the company. Obviously you are not well acquainted with the workings of public corporations. And just in case you aren't aware of it, the President cannot stop a corporation or any other business from moving jobs overseas. Did mythbusters inform you of that?
Avatar hypersoniq -
#4
Let's see... stop corporate tax breaks for companies outsourcing, allow tax incentives for retaining and re-training current U.S. employees... NOT fast-tracking 31 more countries into NAFTA... there is alot a president who really gave a **** about his country could do.
51% is a majority, 4% is a voice that can be overridden. that's basic math. There is a big diffeence between a truly global corporation and one that did hire U.S. workers and dumped them in favor of cheap overseas labor... BIG difference.
Avatar LANTERN -
#5
What kind of optoelectronics? Light sensing transistors, resistors, Video receivers, or Leds?
Avatar hypersoniq -
#6
Initially I was involved in MOCVD (Metal Oxide Chemical Vapor Deposition) which is a laminate process for creating laser diodes of a certain wavelenght, for use in communications. Then I was in the Galium Arsenide high speed circuit division, which created the control circuits for those diodes.
Avatar LANTERN -
#7
Matal oxides can be a sort of semiconductors, but seeded germanium and silicon are much better I think, I think that metal oxides can be used to give color(s) to fireworks, also some (or all?) metal oxides when combined with each other and ignited with some kind of very hot fuse (like ignited magnesium powder or filings) can produce very consentrated very high degree heat (superheath), I think that they call it thermite or some word similar to that one.

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