Is it Slow At Where You Work

[Jeff H]

Its prety sad at work. Were only stamping out 7 million a week. We have capacity to 20 million a week. That tells ya that computer sales have been really slow. I make little computer parts.

 

[DarrellB]

Jeff, were do you work at? I work a Samtec Inc. here in New Albany IN and we make electronic conectors and computer chips also have a plating department, thats were I work, I'm in Maintenance. We went from over 1. 5 million in bookings a day to maybe 450,000. It's really looking bad here, mainly because this place doesn't have enough balls to layoff anybody. I sure hope it picks up soon or my next bombs will have to wait.



Later

Big D

 

[EMDDIESEL]

The RR is leveling off as far as traffic booms, my job in the gun shop is getting busier though, people are buying more and more stuff getting ready for the hunting season i guess

 

[Mill Rat]

It Don't Look Good

I work in a factory that fabricates bare copper wire as an electrical tech. It's the worst I've seen it since the early 80's.

Most of the lines have gone from running 12 hour shifts 24/7 to 8 hours 5 days a week. No turnaround is seen any time yet.

 

[KatDiesel]

Loading coal and movin trains (majority of my trains are coalies), no let up in my traffic levels on the three jobs I work. Actually some of it has increased but that is prolly due to the MofW (Maintence of Way) curfews during the day to relay rail and fix stuff, whether its tunnels, in track welding, slidefence rplacement. Oh ya I am a train dispatcher for a railroad.

 

[ACoyle]

Thankfully we are busy in NYC We do computer cabling, PC workstations, Hardware file servers and telecommunications.



It's a different kind of busy, more people are fixing than buying. One of the largest Computer Hardware resellers was shipping out 7 Million per day last year. This year 4. 5 million per day. That's a large reduction.



Theyare saying that they are seeing September as the start of the recovery

 

[The patriot]

I work in a chemical company. Big name, you'd know it.

Through attrition, and "selective removal" we;ve went from 140+ people on site to under 100 last year.

The business as a whole may be slow, but we sure as hell arent!!

With this kind of a cut, I'm just waiting for a big mistake to happen.

I go in on 8 -12 hr shifts, and I get one day off and do it again. It'll be an awesome paycheck, as long as I can stay awake for the commute!!

I'm not worried about getting layed off. Being the boiler operator, I'd be one of the last off of the site anyway. If the plant shuts down for a holiday, or scheduled maintenance, there is one person for fire watch and me!!

Eric

 

[Archive]

Our air traffic is increasing. Not at an alarming rate, but steadily and slowly. On sunny days, we talk to as many as 450-500 little airplanes a day, plus all of the commercial traffic.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

I work for a company that manufactures rotary tooling for the Converting industry. We got real slow early in the year. Frozen wages, no overtime ect. About 50 people on my shift quit over the last couple years. They haven't replaced any. Major skeleton crew.



Over the last 3-4 months, it has picked up a little. I thought at one point they were going to close our branch. I was nervous

 

[Woodenhead]

I work as a mechanical designer for a company that does uprates, refurbishments and parts for hydroelectric generators. As you can imagine were plenty busy at the moment. Power generation's a good place to be right now. I start working for field services in Sept (gotta get out of the office) and have been told to take my hollidays now cause I won't get them later. I'm told I'll be in Washington from Sept to ? (few months) with "maybe" a couple weeks off. I hope things pick up for the rest of you, nothing worse than wondering what's gonna happen.



Mike

 

['956Wheel]

Utilities

I am in the constuction and maintenance end of the utility industry..... we are going B--LS OUT! O. T. like never before! We had a major "buy out" in 1995 and are short on manpower but buku on work, the bean counters are finaly getting it, that is hiring a bit.



In reading the posts it seems that the tech end are getting it worst... probably due to foriegn competition. Like usual we (USA) invent it, the fat cats move it to elsewhere so they can pad their pockets. They call it corperate greed, I call it personal greed!



Mike

 

[Shovelhead]

?? Slow at work???

I work for the local Telephone Co. as the lead installation and maint. tech on an Air Force installation in D. C.

I'm up to my a$$ in alligators.

It seems that everyone on the dang installation wants to move their offices around at the same time. Big problem is , nobody wants to pay for overtime, they just want 12 hours work in 8 hours time. Yeah, right!

I guess the military will always have an unlimited supply of $$$$$ to pi$$ away on a whim.

When I'm asked if I can do something "when I get a second", I tell them that it may be November before I "get a second"

 

[mdlowry]

Re: Utilities

Originally posted by '956Wheel

In reading the posts it seems that the tech end are getting it worst... probably due to foriegn competition.

Things are very slow at work. Yep, I'm in the tech sector. I work for a company that makes ion implanters for the semiconductor industry. Our production floor is nearly bare. We've had very few orders for new implanters. We do sell to companies overseas and even they haven't been buying lately. I've survived two layoffs so far and a company shutdown. We still have another (1 week) shutdown at Thanksgiving and another one scheduled for after Christmas (2 weeks).



Hopefully things turn around here really soon!



Michael

 

[Wayne M.]

It's always very busy where I am. As long as NYC needs their Garbage Trucks up and running, I'll be ok. We are slowly turning most of our fleet over right now so it's a different kind of work, more pesky jobs like oil leaks and new truck glitches rather than brake jobs and electrical shorts, but our rigirous PM system makes loads of work. We are on the edge of our seats because most positicans are lame ducks, and heads can roll come election time. Politics, ya know.

 

[RBrunson]

Down time

Usually we take one week a year in the summer time to do our annual maintenance. (Pulp & Paper mill) but this year we went down the 1st of July and are due to start up after Labor Day. There is such a world wide glut of pulp on the market that it dont pay to run. The newspaper people love it thoe, cheap pulp, but you will never see them lower the price of their newspaper.



I hope it turns around for all of us. There are too meny good people out there that are out of work now.

 

[Ramboy]

I work for a telecom co. in Austin. The NASDAQ melt-down has killed scores of dot-com companies here, many of which were our customers. We have three SONET (fiber-optic) rings here without a customer left on them. Fortunately, we have other means of connection.

 

[Wayne M.]

Yhea Ron, happened to be at Staples yesterday and noticed that looseleaf filler paper was at a stupid low price! Lower than I paid 15 years ago when I was in school! I guess this explains why.

 

[Oasis-3]

Trash to Cash

I burn trash and make electric. We burn 1200 tons of trash a day and make electric for 20,000 homes from it at the plant I work at.

If the EPA would get there act together we would build more plants. Right now the new gas turbine plants are taking alot of our people and most of our plants have openings.

Over 300 hours overtime per man this year so far

My Work

Seems like all work no play

Cliff

 

[work2muchplay2little]

I work at a hospital, admissions are up 10% over same time last year. Population has increased and aged, more stress too. Health insurance delay/denial tactics have worsened so some here are a little jittery too regarding job security.

 

[drawson]

I am a teacher(instructor) in a applied tech center(soon to be college) and we have had steady growth since I started. I was the second instructor for the program and now we are looking at a third. I liked it better when I had more one on one time with my students.