Found out that some upper level UTC folks came through our shop recently. ( I know we are all RTX now but it was only a matter of time before some legacy UTC big wigs came through). They said our building and processes are 15-20 years behind the times, the building is outdated and our run times are entirely to long. Also found out that 3 new machines we got in a month or so ago just got shut off by the people we ordered them from. Come to find out we haven’t even paid for them yet so they shut the machine off remotely until we pay for them. I’ve been telling everyone here where I work this was a matter of time. Once they start looking at which facilities are worth spending money on or are allowed to continue to stay operational, they would look here and wonder how we have managed to stay afloat as long as we have. As far as I’m concerned the ball is now rolling. They came in and saw how outdated everything is, from machines to processes, how poorly managed and unorganized we are. And upon further investigation they’ll see how much sc-ap go in the dumpster out back. They’ll be p-ss-d. This is easily the most mis-managed, dis-coordinated place I’ve ever work. I’m interested to see what they do here. Any thoughts or insight is welcome. I’d rather not say what building I’m at specifically but it’s in Texas.
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They were probably estimating which machines tools are able to be sold to Other countries They are definitely going to be cleaning house. All the satellite sites they were really spread too thin in my opinion
That makes sense. I found out this morning that the VP of manufacturing and a woman who used to be in charge of our building spent 3 days at the building before leaving and going back. Not sure what that was about. The guy I asked said they just showed up and we’re here a few days. I have noticed things not being restocked. Like tools, supplies and such. I’m tired of all this covert ops b—s—. This is wearing thin as it is I’m sure for many of you.
There are different tricks that are played by corporate to give justification to what they want to shut down. One of those tricks is to restrict funding so much that normal operations can't be run. This will be seen as overall deficiencies in deliveries and hence revenue to the bottom line. Then they use that as a justification to shut down divisions, even though they're fully aware they caused the issues to begin with.
It's a way of telling half-truths to get what they want. I've seen it before, and am surprised they've yet to apply that principle to smaller divisions of Raytheon (less push back) say in MA. While its tough to tell from your description, it sounds like that is what is being done in Texas. I could be mistaken.
They just built a new 200k square foot manufacturing facility as an add on to their McKinney factory as well.
Your bldg is legacy Rtn? Other than that new corp site in Richardson and the site in Mck which was HQ, all the other bldgs can be eliminated due to the pandemic/work from home and the need to reduce real estate. Consolidation and layoffs will result.