I spy with my little eye, job postings for Penang, Malaysia. Yield, PI, Test, and AME Process Engineers. They’ll be supporting multiple fabs. No wonder they’ve been investing so much effort in Cloud infrastructure… Google is your friend. Good Luck.
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@1opq+1jNJ5hsd He cannot take any pressure and easy freak out man. PB’s puppy and biggest contribution is outsourcing all the jobs with zero help. Bangalore is part of Binod's India empire. Every headcount lost here will fill two to three more positions in Bangalore. This site never plan to fill the gap, I have no problem with that. But please don’t give me a 100 pages investigation slides and ask me to make conclusions. Those guys doing jobs like a joke, they don’t need to take responsibilities and what they do just simply run a Shiny data mining and copy paste all the plots in slides and let your read their sh-t like report with 0 summary and conclusion. And you will be the one to answer the question and get yell from Binod.
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The trainer in CFM trained Bangalore techs to do classifications last year. This year he taught them the tool quals. The trainer was promoted last year for handing the bag to Bangalore like the good little whipping boy he is to Binod's project of outsourcing to Bangalore. A true yes man with no ba--s, scruples, or loyalty to the techs here in America, and on-site.
This is because it's hard to get people to work night shift in US!
CHIP act is the greatest joke with zero cent in and all China accounts lost.
I know outsource plan is serious and is being evaluated seriously. Integration, AME both have targets that they need meet in 2023 so that some of the jobs could be eliminated in Malta. What confuses me is this - Why we need to do job reduction if we are already loosing employees at record rate? > 20% attrition rate in GF and still need job cuts? What kind of profit we are making that can not save even employees? I tell you - this whole GF management deserves change and fired immediately. We need fire all these a-s lickers in AME and integration that are able to reach VP, director and manager role . This need to be done as part of this pivot to stop this.
Since the announcement of layoffs, there have been people coming on-site that we thought didn’t exist anymore, especially levels 6-9.
Were they literally allowed to just work from home the whole time, and now they just show up to improve “optics,” like they are actually doing something?
@eed+1jNJ5hsd why we still need to make wafer in US and why we cannot shut down the entire fab and open two new fabs in Malaysia, or find a new CEO in Malaysia that will save more? Ah, wait, as TC said, we are U.S. based Fab and give me the CHIP act money. We can open a Fab with 0 people in side and give all the money to Bangalore to run the Fab and let the robots to fix the tool and let Malaysia site to remote control and maintain the robots. Problem solved and money saved!
Does this mean we won’t be able to do US contract government work anymore ?
Bangalore has constant promotion requests and never ending counter-offers with productivity at one third of other sites.
Because Bangalore has worked so well.
See the short sightedness of the management in continuing to look for low-cost locations and needing more headcounts at these sites to operate. I am sure the guy who proposed this project got promoted. Is GF going to Vietnam, Indonesia or Cambodia next?
EE’s in Fab8 are also absentee from the fab operations much of the time. I’ve literally seen them practicing and putting golf ba--s in the cubicles. They bail out early every Friday. After the announcement of layoffs, there were a lot of them engaged and present of all sudden. It’s a joke. GF seriously needs to restructure top down.
Our PTs won’t go in the fab at all for recoveries even though required and are allowed to work from home all the time for childcare stuff when salaried people in other roles cant
@vok - dont assume anything - beware, everything is replaceable with a NCG or offshore contract - did you see the news article with Boston Dynamics dog sniffing around VT sub-fab?
At least they can’t outsource MTs. PTs maybe, the only thing they need to be onsite for is wafer recoveries and you don’t need more than a couple people to do that.
Many of our Process Engineers at F8 are essentially remote employees anyway. They sat it out at home while many of us had to be on-site during the entire pandemic. They tend to hinder fab operations and have no clue which FDC models they should or shouldn’t be paying attention to. Maybe it’s a good thing to outsource to some more knowledgeable people.
I can confirm that too. F8 AME is planning to outsource some of the Process related jobs in Singapure and Malaysia. The reason: they spend "too much money" on labor in US. The plan is to not just support manufacturing but to fully train engineers oversees so that they can even lead some of the projects remotely for F8