Thread regarding Cummins Inc. layoffs

Do yourself a favor and leave Cummins as soon as you can

Spent 14 years working for Cummins, and I can tell you from experience you'll be much better off leaving. The sooner you leave, the better off you'll be.

  • 14 years working for Cummins, 8 years of layoffs, 2 years of no merit increases, and 1 year without bonuses.

  • Trust me, you'll never earn much of a a pension at Cummins. The pension is structured so you don't earn much until after your 50. Cummins makes sure to lay off just as many 50 year old employees as non-50 year olds. They will lay you off before you can accrue much of a pension and you'll never make it to your planned retirement date. I know a dozen or so people from my location alone who were 'voluntold' they need to retire or take their chances with the next round of layoffs.

  • PTO and paid holidays are a joke. I have 9 more days of PTO the day I started my new job compared to working with Cummins for 14 years... and unlike people in the COB, I actually get day off with pay when it falls on a weekend.

  • Reverse discrimination.. unless you are a minority you will never get a promotion. Managers are rated on the diversity of the people that the promote in their department, not for promoting the best qualified. If you are a white male, you are screwed.

  • Cummins has no loyalty to it's employees. The way they lay people off you'd think they are closed to shuttering their doors tomorrow. They made 20 billion in revenue in 2014. It's not like they are not making money, they are just not earning enough to make shareholders happy. They would rather throw good employees out on their ear around Christmas than make shareholders unhappy for a quarter or two.

Don't waste any more time with this company, it's a dead-end. Leave on your own terms and let the rot in the h*ll that they made for themselves.

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I was part of the massive layoff in late 2015. After some investigation talking to several co-workers and former co-workers I knew of 15 people that got let go. First all 15 were Americans. Second 14/15 were white males. Earlier this year I confirmed with a friend of mine that still works at Cummins, who's Black by the way, that Cummins has already started onboarding in early 2016. He told me it was weird that they let go of so many good people in Columbus, and are now onboarding. I agreed with him, and he noticed that they're bringing in more H1B Visa employees to replace those let go in late 2015.

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Post ID: @2mfvk+EZLlFyg

Terrible company!! 7+ layoffs since 2008. Lots of nepotism. people with 2 and 2- are still there but people with stellar performance rating are let go.

Management does not know what goes on at the lower level. Poor understanding of the markets and lack of strategic vision. Operates on a quarterly basis.

Looks like the strategy is to hire college grads for less pay while laying off people working there for 10+ years because they are higher paid. Typical corporate America!!

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Post ID: @1xyov+EZLlFyg

So true on #reversediscrimination at Cummins

Reverse discrimination.. unless you are a minority you will never get a promotion. Managers are rated on the diversity of the people that the promote in their department, not for promoting the best qualified. If you are a white male, you are screwed.

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Post ID: @ere+EZLlFyg

So true on #h1b

Due to the massive layoffs every several years, the numbers of employees aged 40+ is dramatically dropping as well as the company is wiping out the experienced workforce who will be replaced with young H1B visa engineers from India as the cycle picks back up

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Post ID: @efz+EZLlFyg

That is pretty much Cummins in a nutshell. Every layoff was so they could pay a dividend to shareholders and not to keep the company "afloat". Even back in 2001, they gave all the employees a 10% pay reduction (1 unpaid day off every two weeks), just so they could pay a dividend to the stockholders. Despite Cummins continuously blowing its horn on how well it treats employees and embraces "diversity",it is a soulless corporation like any other. Due to the massive layoffs every several years, the numbers of employees aged 40+ is dramatically dropping as well as the company is wiping out the experienced workforce who will be replaced with young H1B visa engineers from India as the cycle picks back up. It makes you wonder how a company can survive when it purges its knowledge base and experience every 3 years and eliminates the workforce that dedicated their careers to it.

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