Thread regarding Mattel Inc. layoffs

Just have to remember that SG is not an Engineer with a degree in Engineering which makes perfect sense as we stopped doing real Engineering here many years ago. China does it all now. He graduated with a BS from Arizona State in Product Design but he could never really draw/design like so many of those other grads from there. He rose through the ranks like the rest of the ASU guys did & was hired back in after leaving MattHell for Equity Marketing then getting terminated from there. Weaseled his way back in so you gotta give him that and the rest is history. He's really tight with who he has to be in the 15th story Tower so he's not going anywhere any time soon. I guarantee you he's never had to actually to fill out a PLM form so he or Lister could care less. Lister the Loser, what a tool/fool & he's still gainfully employed? Typical. Gotta be carefull with SG cause you never what mood he's in :( Insecure leadership surrounds themselves with their own kind which is exactly why we are being strangled under this PLM system. Stock down shoved it down our throats & could care less. Hey, it's a job & I'm riding this train to the end of the line so complaints or ill feelings from me. Who cares anymore anyway? Just like the rest of us......

it was SL and SG that I recall championed this idea way back... Needed something to put on their TRACKS ... Now the new awesome idea is automating design in a box.

Weeeee let's have more fun awesome creativity !!!!

I'm quite sure the whole PLM idea came from one of those super high priced consultant groups like McKenzie. Top management not smart enough to figure things out so they pay millions for someone else to tell them what to do. Then they figure they must be right because they cost a lot and these "consultants" are all out of top schools. They spend millions and years rolling this stupid thing out and it's an epic fail! Having a hard time seeing any light at the end

If the tunnel with these idiots In charge.

Still waiting....was the $70MM PLM system used to manage the development of the all important A.I. Barbie?

That's because our Marketing geniuses are too busy picking PMS color swatches & cost reducing concepts to actually Market anything but themselves & supposedly art direct TV commercials. Really, for reals????? :)

Remember, Ever After High was brand that pissed off Disney to award the Princess contract to Hasbro. Descendants is a better brand, better story, and you'll see Disney pump it through not only toys, but also consumer products, Disney parks, Disney Channel, school plays, and possibly a broadway show. The way Disney markets franchises makes Mattel look sad at trying on anything besides Monster High.

Totally agree with the last comment & if you ever tried using this useless PLM database you wouldn't be asking why everybody hates it as it's ANYTHING but agile.........what a complete waste of MONEY & EFFORT/TIME!!!!!!!! Our stupid upper mismanagement that forced this on the workers DON'T HAVE TO USE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! talk about a non creative brain drain that would suck the creativity out of anybody that has any. SG, SL, Isela should all be fired as talented People Leave MattHell, that's PLM :( Again, arrogance, pride & stupidity will reign & PLM will never go away. Yet another nail in the MattHell coffin.

Let's see 70 million dollars... that's about how much the learning company cost Mattel but the dudes that shoved PLM down our throats are still collecting pay checks while designers and technical support and seamstresses get laid off

Thank Stephen and Scott hope they're feeling great about pushing that initiative on us

70 million dollars that's a lot of jobs you costed the company and drove talented engineers and creatives to Hasbro

I think we should all send them Kudos tomorrow morning !!!!

The reason people are against PLM is that it works great when you have a small number of sku's with a disciplined engineering team. and a mapped process that works across all product lines. None of those fit Mattel. 85%+ of Mattel Product is a one-year only thing. It makes no sense to put them in a product lifecycle management system. People tried to tell them that, but not only did they get it wrong, screw up the implementation, but also dumped the workload on people who already were overworked. Yes, it works at Apple, but the Agile system was not designed to handle how Mattel does business.

Why is everyone against PLM?

They'll soon more more ex-Mattel designers @ Hasbro...no more PLM !!!!!!!!! :)

Descendants have been on shelf for several months. This line was introduced at Toy Fair in February. Most of the crew working on Descendants are ex-Mattel designers.