Comments on: Chrysler announces locations of 5,000 job cuts

By: Get Real

Get Real — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:48:34 +0000

They should lay off the Transmission design people.

That would be a better than this Transformation plan.

By: purdue

purdue — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:23:29 +0000

I asked my uncle if they honored him in any way. He said “Huh, you think MANAGEMENT cares about us?”.

And yeah, brother is well enough off, I would think. He has vacation home in Florida. Beats ME….both wife and I are Purdue grads “with skills” and in no way can afford a vacation home (that we don’t rent out), let alone just GO on vacations. The UAW does help them out. My parents always asked when I’d get a REAL job or a job with a REAL EMPLOYER whose benefits are good and don’t end at termination/retirement. Many of us never WILL experience that; unfortunately. Even my ex-roommate, who Lee Iaccoca flew up TWICE to talk with him personally, earns his living in the car biz. He’s left Chrysler for Ford, and is involved in establishing Ford’s (red) China plants. Funny, he’s on the other side of the mgmt/labor line, because he could not SPELL to save his soul. (Odd, I have another good friend who’s in (red china) Shanghai and enjoys it, too.)

By: Commodore

Commodore — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:38:23 +0000

No need to offend purdue Deanster. His brother/uncle may have started working there quite a while ago when Chrysler come up with their more innovative ideas like the minivans and K-cars. You know, once Chrysler made the best-looking cars available. I wasn’t around then, but comparing cars from the 50s, 60s, and before then, Chrysler’s designs were great. In fact, Toyoda’s very first car was a complete copy of the Chrysler’s Airflow design

purdue – did your uncle get anything for that? Usually, when there is some insane record set by someone like that, the automaker may give them a free car or something. I hope Chrysler didn’t just offer him the same minimum buy out or something like they have with other workers.

By: purdue

purdue — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:53:06 +0000

My brother may be one of those let go in Belvidere. Uh, you misspelled it in the article it appears??? (never been there myself).

I had an uncle that worked at Chrysler. He had the most seniority of ANY (Daimler)/Chrysler employee when he retired. The ONLY place he ever worked. 60 years.

By: neko

neko — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:01:13 +0000

It’s irritating that people actually expect Chrysler to just change overnight. It is not Nardellini’s fault that Chrysler is the way it is. You can blame Daimler and their bean counters for that. Nardellini and Co. are taking steps to make Chrysler better. As soon as Chrysler was purchased by Cerberus, they set up committees for almost ever aspect of a vehicle, which has yielded “Project D”, which is a complete overhaul of the horrible mess of a vehicle that is the Chrysler Sebring / Dodge Avenger twins. Those cars can not be attributed to the current Chrysler LLC, but rather to Daimler, since they would have been the people to approve it. We will see a little glimpse of the “New Chrysler” in the redesigns Project D brings us, but it will be cars such as the next generation Viper, 300 and (possibly) Demon that show what they can do. To bash Chrysler now for their mistakes is unjustified.

By: Commodore

Commodore — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:52:06 +0000

It’s a shame that these people lost their jobs, but that is nobody’s fault but Chryslers

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:17:24 +0000

Khaaaaaaaaaaan!

By: The Stig

The Stig — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:14:15 +0000

Bring back rich corinthian leather peddled by Ricardo Montalban.

By: SwerveEarly

SwerveEarly — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:18:12 +0000

Bring back Iaccoca and with K-cars by Cheri

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:26:51 +0000

Nardelli, fine job you’re doin’ there. In the short time you’ve been running the joint you’ve put thousands out of work and figured out that your midsize entries need new interiors.

Any day now you’re liable to realize that stuffing a hemi into everything is not the solution to future CAFE standards.

By: CA36GTP

CA36GTP — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:44:12 +0000

Did we really need 2 separate articles?

By: LP640

LP640 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0000

well, thats what you get if you’re stupid enough to work for chrysler morons