Normally I would assume so, but since it was mentioned that they would be targeting executives/management specifically I'm not so sure.
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@2irs+1jZmqhWD
Do you actually know for a fact that they're going after new hires, or are you speculating?
@3mak Spot on! I have been working in the post fab and it was ridiculous to watch those lazy coworkers just came to work to spend time in the cafeteria, chatting for hours especially if no one from the management is around. Work was not delivered on time either, and when it was delivered it had a lot of issues which caused every one in the team to work on fixing those issues. On top of that, they just complained all the time. The majority of the complainers in my department are gone in the span of the last couple of years, and the department is much better now. I worked at different tech companies before, and I have never in my life met such lazy, entitled complainers as I met here at GF. Employees need to change their attitude and come to this place to work, not to kick around and add burden to hardworking people.
@2uiz+1jZmqhWD If your role need to work with both the post fab and OSAT and more and more people left in your team then you have no choice. There is no plan to fill the gap and you need to take jobs for those left people. Semiconductor company never have a regular time schedule and everybody need to take more efforts to make the company great. But there are too many lazy guys in this company, for both manager team and engineering team. Why GF never can catch up with TSMC and SAMSUNG, because so many people sitting in the cafeteria watching the YouTube and chatting all the time. There are still a lot of people come at 10 AM and left at 3 PM, doing nothing but sitting there. Even you go to the Fab, see how many people are really working on something. People watching the World Cup in the Fab and cheer how they beat the Iran team. Such a ridiculous place with so many nonsense people.
- . Why are you working 10 hour days and volunteering on the weekends ?
- No one is asking you to do this so you can't then complain.
- I find so many people take on burden that's above their pay scale. If a party is planned and your manager tells you to attend but you choose not to because you, a technician, is concerned about coverage, then I have no words for you.
The “mistakes” of paying NCG market rates in the face of labor market competition and inflation? You sound bitter.
Despite what TC said in the globalcast, I know many departments are going after new hires that came in this summer at elevated salaries (due to the job market environment in the semiconductor industry). As another poster said above, there is a complete and utter lack of experienced engineers left in Fab8. If that sounds like your department, brace for a flood of young new hires to be wacked...They can't do anything yet, don't know anything, and are often making more $$$ than engineers that have been here 3-5 years. Its an opportunity to right the mistakes of paying all these ncgs so much this summer...
@2urq Don't take this the wrong way, but why didn't you learn your lesson after the second year?
I work 10 hours a day 5 days a week plus weekend 4 hours volunteering coverage for my products in the past five years. My salary is still lower than some people who came two years later than me and leave at 3 PM for pick up his kids and doing nothing guy. There are still a lot of people in the company can doing nothing but coffee and hidden person. Those guys needs to layoff immediately, this company sucks. The more you do the less they pay you. This is so unfair !!!!!!!!
Trying to remember how many Staff Techs, Staff EE’s, Staff PT’s that got laid off in 2015 and 2018. None in my group. With that said, I lost count how many newbies, contractors and mid level coasters that got let go or just quit because they couldn’t hack it in the semiconductor industry. Also TC knows manufacturing. He also knows if he cuts loose those with the most experience on the floor he’ll be paying through the nose for vendor and supplier FSE’s. GF won’t spend the money. Also, don’t forget your senior level technicians can do PM’s and Troubleshoot. So when it slows down, the first thing that slows down is PM interval. The PM team gangbangs will be a thing of the past. They will just hire a bunch of Nstar or WG guys to stand around and wipe the chambers. In fact most of the new hires now were brought on through these companies. I hope nobody loses their jobs at the end of the day but if your expendable you’re expendable. None of us are safe.
@Daddy42069
Never got that promotion to staff tech, did you? Seeth.
The excessive use of New College Graduates are a problem at Malta. The stupid mistakes, evidenced by daily DOM topics, are a result of inexperienced people thinking they know what they are doing, after there was a waive of experienced people jumping ship, over the last couple of years. There has to be a veteran presence to keep the ship righted while training the youth of the future. Unfortunately, Malta has lost too much of that experience.
I think staff techs who are overpaid and milk the absolute pi-s out of jobs should be the first to go
I would agree that high salary veteran employees are the greatest risk of being laid off. Reducing costs is an accounting problem not an engineering problem. High salary employees are usually also older employees. Awhile back a federal judge ruled that laying off an older employee for having a high salary was not age discrimination. In this field, over time, we all eventually become part of this group.
FMLA is protected. They can’t get rid of someone for using FMLA
No … three of them make up salary of a veteran employee. And we all know GF is having a huge attrition problem over last few years. They need bodies… so one expensive person vs. 3 cheap…. It’s a no brainer. New hires are probably safest of all
hopefully they get rid of the people abusing the different types of leave
New hires if ncg should be one of safest groups. Expect hatchet job on PMTS, SMTS, etc - who ever is highest has big problems coming
Nope. TC came from IBM. They targeted older, higher paid employees in their layoffs and kept new inexperienced workers. Expect same with GF. Too much IBM DNA for GF to learn from IBM mistakes.
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