Comments on: Chrysler axing 25 percent of salaried workforce

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:30:39 +0000

^ And then their prices will go up because each car will be a special “hand built” model, and they will finally break even. Poor secretary. She’ll build 3 cars on the days where she will have to do “secretarial work”.

By: Get Real

Get Real — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:25:10 +0000

Soon all the employees left will be one president and 2 vice presidents and one secretary who should be able to assemble about 4 cars per day on the line.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:04:08 +0000

Oye, Yard Dog, cuidate. Hay muchos bueyes aquí…

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:01:09 +0000

….. “These are truly unimaginable times for our industry,” Chrysler
….. CEO Bob Nardelli said to employees in a letter. “We continue to be in
….. the most difficult economic period most of us can remember.”

The problem is that the employees that do remember the last such difficult economic period are survivors of the Great Depression of the 30s, and it is precisely these employees that Chrysler will retain to design its next generation of cars.

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:29:35 +0000

and it’s An-da-le not an-dale….
and Toro means Bull…
El Matador is the killer…
…your well come…

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:27:04 +0000

MMUUUOOOOOO………………..
Andale!, Andale!, Toro!-Toro!
“El Matador” will finish you now……

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:21:34 +0000

The UAW, as all unions, will drive the company that employs its union members out of business. I have personally dealt with union rep’s (not UAW, though) and they absolute low lifes.

By: Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3

Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:41:31 +0000

@Catiadesigner, these problems were brought to light decades ago and it is the failure of upper management for both parties that has lead to today’s situation.

By: Catiadesigner

Catiadesigner — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:10:26 +0000

To be honest they probably could clear out 25% of those at the tech center and no one would notice any difference.
The old joke used to be:
Q ‘How many people work at CTC?’
A ‘About 10%’
I remember having an emergency and work needed to be done over a weekend, the engineer that was willing to come in over the weekend and do what was needed wasn’t allowed to because he didn’t have enough union seniority, and most of those that were in on weekends don’t actually have anything to do, they just sit there and read the newspapers, they know they can’t be fired because they’re in the union.
Its a disgrace, I even heard a story of one guy that had pillows under his desk so he could have a snooze every afternoon when he got back from lunch!

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:43:22 +0000

A “Hurd” of cattle…

…and their dung…

By: Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3

Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:36:35 +0000

Cerberus loves this stuff, it’s what they are made of. Nardelli, meet Mark Hurd your counterpart to systematically destroying a company.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:31:35 +0000

beatus, I think the byproduct of said cows is somewhat reminiscent of what Chrysler is up to their neck in.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:16:29 +0000

Um, what’s with the cows? Is that what these workers will be replaced with?