They dropped the AT&T computer division on us and told us to fix it. A guaranteed money loser took away our profit. All of NCR upper management was replaced by the losers from T and when we were cut loose, the T managers stayed. They hired a CEO who had never been to Dayton, and he had no intention to move there. He kept his office in NYC. The govrnor of Georgia used Obama's bailout money to entice NCR to move there from Ohio. The 1200 jobs created in GA were offset by the 1200 jobs lost in Dayton. We got messages that the company was losing money so - no raises for years, while Forbes and the rest of Wall St. reported they were makng lots of money so the CEO and all the rest of the mgmt, got heady bonuses. I woudl oftem work 3 twenty hour days in a row and worked three weeks without a day off. A list of the worst CEO's was released, and ours was the 7th worst. I took an early retirement at 60 and got a job with a company that begged me to come in. They paid me more than NCR and I only worked part-time. I worked there another 13 years because they treated me with respect. I cut ALL connection with NCR, sold my stock, cashed out my pension for a lump sum, etc. All of my old customers ask when I can come back to work, because my replacements don't know what they are doing.
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That is how it was. We were dedicated old school employees. I was there 30 years and laid off when I turned 56. That mind set no longer exists. At one time you got a job and it was your career. No one does that today. Now you work a couple of years and go somewhere else. My son is 30 years old and has had three different employers since graduating from college with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Each move has included better pay and benefits. It is a new world out there.
If NCR is working someone 7 days a week without a single day off for a month……then you didn’t push the issue enough and just say “no”
They totally took advantage of the employee and gave no cares. How many labor violations is that?
I worked during the same years you mentioned, worked 60 hours a week 7 days a week, often a month without a day off. Then told year after year no raise. I gave ncr decades of service, at 57 I was Laid off, I was targeting by a bad manager and because of my pay rate, buts that’s ok, I am done work a couple years earlier than I thought, but don’t think of any Family, when your let go your bullied and threatened right away as they try get rid of you for ever.
Amen brother.