Posted: 8/22/2006 5:16:24 PM EDT
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i know this is kinda that wrong place but i wanted to know what all the Intel folks have heard about the layoffs? Ive only been here for a year and 1/2 and i guess im kinda worried about it all, i moved from pittsburgh pa. im still knida new to the Intel Culture i guess |
That's why I have guns. 
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What's ol' Andy up to these days? He's been gone from Intel for a while, hasn't he? Or did he come back? |
thats why i dont work for intel 
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What shift are you on? 
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Former Intel wafer slave here: Intel gossip and rumors? Hell, make up your own! At Fab15 we used to play a game. It was called f*&K with night shift. When night shift would come in, we would tell them that we had heard things: random drug testing, layoffs, free PCs, whatever. You got point for each person on night shift you heard a version of your rumor from when you relieved them the next day. It was alway great to hear your rumor take on a life of its own... Now I just work at Intel, for a contractor. Better pay, less BS. RA, RP1. BSW |
4, Slam Tec |
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Well if they call you into a conference room for a meeting on a Friday that's not a regular meeting, run and hide. If they can't find you they can't fire you. On the day the lay-offs were officially announced a co-worker had one of his meeting locations changed to a conference room right by the entrance doors. The room is between the entry doors and our security portals. He was freaking out thinkink they were going to can him and moved the meeting to this room to make it easier to kick him out. After about an hour of worrying he finally approached his boss and asked him. Apparently, his boss was shocked, not looking at it that way and immediately switched it to a cafeteria meeting  . Sorry off on a tangent there, I've heard so many rumors in the last month or so I wouldn't be surprised to hear tomorrow that Intel has hired the Ray Nagin to be V.P. of Cafeteria Desserts. |
In construction, it's handled a little differently. When the foreman hands you an envelope with 2 checks before quiting time, you know your services are no longer required.  I have no idea how you guys handle working with all that crap on. I couldn't get out of Intel fast enough once I was transfered from D1D CUB Bldg. to D1D Fab. You can't get laid-off if you drag-up first.  |
I used to work for a division of Lucent at the end of 2000. This division was sold to Tyco Electronics right as Lucent was beginning it's drop into the abyss. Tyco decided to do a 35% layoff of our division worldwide. Then, as the telecom market dropped, we had layoffs once a quarter. I made it through 5 before my number came up. Then, after 8 months of unemployment and discovering the joys of Tivo, Spongebob, and 24, I was able to move to Oregon. Dealing with various tech companies around here, all I can say is be happy you aren't working for HP in Camas right now. That has got to be one of the most depressing places I've been into recently. With HP/Carly laying off across the board, then margins decreasing, and their jobs moving to Taiwan or San Diego, the whole place has the pall of depression. |
Never had the pleasure of working on any projects at HP but did get to install underground acid waste, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and potable water at WaferTech, which isn't far away from HP. During my 20+ years in construction, my longest period of being laid-off has been about 7 months, right after 9/11. 
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OMG this is what happened at InFocus. They even thought i had the day off and called me at my desk on my cell phone to tell me the bad news even though i was at the meeting. Yes it was a Friday and Yes it was Unscheduled..  At first it was a litte upsetting and then now I come to work only to sit at my desk and waiting to go home and want my severence pack ASAP!..I'm going to go into business for myself come November. No more working for anyone. Gonna step into the arena of.... let's just say.... *cough* transfers anyone? |
| I'm a contractor at Intel (D1C and D1D). Even after being in this industry for the last 22 years I have to say that the way companies handle layoffs nowadays is confusing to say the least. No longer is it "last hired, first fired". It has been my experience that the first round of non-exempts is usually getting rid of "dead wood"; people with low performance evals, attendance problems, write-ups, etc. The next time around is usually the "adverage" people. In this case I think, if it happens at all, one round will probably be enough to satisfy the shareholders as this is usually the goal as opposed to actually cutting the "bottom line". |
Well ... maybe. I have had the joy of being a manager at an Oregon company during layoff season (it was an annual event there). It was true that the first round was dead-wood, as it should have been. But later rounds amounted to telling managers to pick a victim or two, and once the dead wood has gone it becomes pretty much arbitrary. There is more than a grain of truth in the description of it being a "beauty contest". |
These are the ones that defy any and all good business practices and make predictions almost impossible. When the semiconductor business had one of it's biggest crashes in '85 I kept my job with one year experience while I saw many long time employees go out the door. In a lot of those cases it was simply the salary of those long term employees that put a target on their backs. Anyone that is, in any way, a threat to a managers position gets the axe a lot of times simply because of that. The results of this type of management is that the experience and talent is replaced with people that excell only in the area of office politics. Then productivity goes down the shitter until the cost of doing business exceeds the cost of outsourcing and the doors close. It's usually the biggest contributors to this situation that swear, and sometimes actually believe, that they did everything humanly possible to save the day. |
If you're lucky they won't handle it like Radio Shack.... www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4153249.html |
I think I'd prefer it that way. It would be better than driving my usual 25 miles only to be stopped at the security desk and herded to some conference room where I could sit and listen to some shithead that still has his fuckin' job tell me how bad they feel about what's happening. |
No it didn't, It said Paul will tell us how the "Efficiency Study" went. . . . . edied out after the JD Wore off . . . . "Efficiency Study" yea. You mean we don't need a manager to manage just 1 or 2 people, and another manager to manage 1-2 managers????? Damn, wasn't going to get started . . . .  |
It was pretty watered down. The count stands at 10.5K total with about 1300 here in the Hillsboro area. These will be spread over a few years and mostly concentrated on the Marketing and IT departments. The real problem may be seen later if these cuts don't appease the shareholders. I don't want to make light of the situation because lay-offs are very serious if it happens to you, but in the grand scheme of things this was pretty light. |
Yep. But thank heaven its not the company I am working for that is causing TEOTWAWKI!
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I wonder what it will do for the Hillsboro real estate market? |
Amen.
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What Local of what trade? The only time I ever made it to Intel was for a Continuing Ed class. I did make WaferTech though. |
hopefully bring it down enough so i can afford to buy a house!!! only on the west coast can you make 55k+ and not afford a house lol. |
Or on the east coast north of Richmond, VA or south of Savannah, GA. |