Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

Semiconductor is not the place to be. The golden years were over long ago. It will continue to be cutthroat with more jobs moving overseas. Soon R&D will all be in Asia. If your American, I recommend Medical or Defense. It's more difficult to outsource Medical with all the FDA regulations. And with Defense, you can't be replaced with H1B. At least not yet - God help us when that happens. Also Defense contractors tend to give every other Friday off ( Lockheed Martin, Raytheon etc).

Micron laid me off last Wednesday at MTV. I had worked as an engineer at micron for 11 years. Called me on my day off. Micron laid off more Americans then non-Americans citizens. I pray that the Most High God takes care of all the workers laid off. Believe and pray and the most high will take care of you.

The Longmont site is up for sale. Matter of time. Headcount in BOISE will drop again in a few months as this move did nothing to investor community.

Longmont RIF count 90 out of 210.

I was in a customer facing role and was involuntarily laid off on Wednesday from the Meridian site. I'd only been hired for less than 2 years and we were already short staffed. A manager in my department was laid off so that's #3

If you were fired in from the Boise location should chime in on a head count. From the general consensus there were more than 100 that were involuntarily laid off in Boise but I don't think Micron is being forthright about how many. I'll start it out with #1

We got an internal team letter saying that for the Global Quality group, all layoff notifications have been made and communicated for the US and Singapore regions. Of course, this could be the first round of many, so that's not really so comforting. Many of my peers in customer-facing type of roles have been un-affected thus far, but who knows what's to come. Many of the customers I deal with have been shooting our products down. Delivery target dates have continually slipped, qual dates slip, and performance figures aren't matching up. It hasn't been good lately.

Mark from manassas micron, with all due respect eat a dick. And your security can go f--- a goat .hope you catch herpes of the mouth. Thanks for taking half my vacation time. Ya dick

This is some babyback bullsheet. Firing ppl who have 10plus years with micron.im pretty pissed

As an engineering manager I am asked to make sure that the H1 worker I have is guaranteed a job by rejecting workers sent from HR for not very good reasons.

Pretty fishy

No, that is not accurate. I know of at least three H1B colleagues who are leaving ....

How many from MTV were let go? How many of them were American and how many were H1B Visa? Shouldn't H1B people have to be let go, since they are only here due to a "shortage" of American engineers?

Micron keeps employee on work visa while laying off the rest....

I asked months ago to be put on a lay off list. I was laid off last week. I am happy to go with no hard feelings and the very best of luck to you all wether going or staying. I am happy for the opportunity that was afforded me, and it's on to bigger and better things.

This lay off is small. Many more to come in the near future. If you are over 65 been with Micron a long time and are in a "lower end " operator job, you are going to go . Manufacturing jobs are leaving Boise. In the mean time be prepared to be doing lots of menial"special project" tasks and lots of gossip and sitting around with very little to do. How long, as an adult worker are you all willing to do this? Now is the time to find something else to do. Nothing is going to change for the better for the average Micron worker. Take steps now to do something else or you will be sorry you didn't.

The real lawsuit is in looking at all the performance ratings AND THEN drill down costs. This reeks of bs. Curious of how top people let go and why

Good God I have to proof read better.. I obviously am not a technical writer... :)

I somehow survived this round. Many long time colleagues did not. Breaks your heart because these folks are like family after all these years.

If I get let go in the next round, I will feel blessed for all the years I was employed. I realize I am not entitled to a job. When my employer no longer needs my, or can pay for, my services I will get cut.

I get the anger but I really don't think I am the least bit entitled to employment. And, in spite of what some are saying, I think Mr. Durcan is affected strongly by these actions. I can see it in the man's face. Go slow to demonize these folks. I could see the distress in many managers faces as they had to walk people out the door know full well real people, many with families, were no in distress.

I may join y'all shortly. If I do, I think I am going back to college and get that degree in Psychology I always wanted. I feel into tech as a young man. Never planned to make it a career. Now, 35 years later, and so many layoffs (not all with Micron) under my belt, I may actually feel sorta liberated.

Tech is not a stable place for many and the roller coaster is exhausting.

All I can say is, if the are going to do it, just shoot me and get it over with.

God bless you all. May you all land on your feet.

Kinda baffled as to choices on the first round. They took two from my group and one received high ratings and was seen as a higher performer.

Second round coming after next quater ends. Japan will be crushed then some with lower ratings. And on and on... Nand os now gonna s--- all of next year too. So Micron is still way in trouble. Google Micron news NAND and you will see start of it.

From what I know/hear nobody knew who was on the list.

Does anyone know when the second round of layoffs, if any, will be?

What about all the employees that were basically forced to take the volunteer because they were told they were on the list anyways and needed to exit before the volunteer time ended?

If that's the case that puts some of us in a huge bind. I wasn't expecting to be laid off especially so quickly and considering some recent medical expenses and purchasing a new home I'm tapped out and I need the severance. They said I was on payroll until August 1st. Im SOL This is not good.

Ok so this convo is getting a bit interesting..... There is a definite grey area here since Micron is giving severance packages. Severance packages often serve to replace WARN pay.

The one dicey thing here is Micron has always given severance packages to employees when instigating mass layoffs therefore it could reasonably be considered an employee personnel policy and would not serve to offset the WARN employers liability. I can guarantee that the ISP memorandum will include a waiver under the WARN act so you may want to contact an attorney before signing it. Microns possible civil penalty is up to $500 per day per employee of the violation. A court ruling may also depend on how many employees chose to sign rather than litigate and thereby demonstrate that it was a reasonably fair settlement package, unless it can be shown that those who did accept it did so out of necessity and couldn't afford not to.

The other thing to consider is a court ruling that went to trial would take 4-8 months at least to get the money and would require one to NOT sign for the severance which you would also have to wait for. In a nut shell, is there really enough that are angry enough and have the ability to wait for the money to bring suit against Micron. The other caveat is that if you are re-hired within the 60 day period by another employer than you have voluntarily terminated your employment and would not be eligible any longer for the 60 days of pay.

With enough plaintiffs Micron would quickly settle instead of proceed to court likely offering to pay those in the law suit the extra 4 weeks until August 28th or even 60 days after they decide to send a WARN to the Idaho Department of Labor. The other thing to consider is that Micron would probably enter an offer in Judgment for a reasonable settlement offer and if it did go to court and if the judgment ended up being less than the offer in judgment then Micron would be entitled to attorney's fees and that would be deducted from the judgment. With Microns official legal history they typically don't settle but then again not all suits are ever brought to motion and if they have settled in some instances suits that have been brought to motion they may have also required a gag order precluding the existence of the suit from being publicly available.

My 2 cents.....

How many let go at MTV? Anyone know?

That is not true. According to Federal law WARN notices are required to be given 60 days before layoffs. Micron is in violation of the WARN act as it has not reported any mass layoffs in Idaho to the required agencies. The last time Micron sent a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) was February 2009. The WARN act requires the notice to be given to the employees and the governing agency where the employer pays the most taxes. Someone with access would need to confirm when Micron first sent out the ISP reduction initiative notice to the employees via mass email but with the August 1st official termination dates it needs to have been on or before June 1st. Micron didn't publicly announce the layoffs until June 28th which I believe was the first time it also notified the employees as well. If it was after June 1st and unless Micron can definitively show it could not have predicted the layoffs and required emergency time reduction allowances than at the very least one's official termination date would be extended to 60 days past when the mass email notice went out. Which means they would have to continue to pay you until August 28th and then offer the severance package. You'll also have to check your ISP paperwork but there is likely a memorandum of understanding you'll have to sign that not doubt waives any and all your possible rights to any claims against Micron for your termination, this would probably include any rights afforded under the WARN act. If there is anyone that can confirm the notification timeline and can take care of the chain of custody of the information than there is a very real class action lawsuit and US labor violation to can be pursued.

The official termination date for those in the ISP is August 1st so you would not see a report yet. They also have 30 days to report the layoffs after they happen. I would check back in September for the official number. MTI lost more than 100 in the ISP.

The number of MTI employees let go via ISP must be less then 100 because department of labor must be notified of 100 or more. And I can't find anywhere that DoL was called. Can anyone confirm?

It's crazy to see how much bleeding is happening. I know that this is an up and down industry but Micron scores at the very bottom.

Look at their competitors. Samsung, Hynix,

Etc...

Don't have a crappy stock value or laying off every other year. SUCH a huge take over target. Shocked it has not happened yet.

Anyone know the number of employees laid off in Boise yesterday?

The Folsom site is being evacuated to due to a threat made to the site.

With the failure of so many new technology nodes in my opinion it's very possible the Boise Site will be closing soon. If it does that's going to s--- royal for the Boise area having such a huge drop in the economy. Anyone that works in SXP (3d Xpoint) knows that outside of the Boise facility they can't even come close to getting it to function. Don't drink the cool aid that send out in the site wide congrats emails, SXP is in serious trouble. The hybrid memory cube, although a novel idea, likely won't ever make it to market as the firmware alone is a nightmare. They've canceled MRAM as well as 4-5 other EM technology nodes too. It wouldn't surprise me if Micron sold off in pieces in the near future. Don't forget the patent infringement law suit Harvard filed last month. What's funny is I know the engineers that stole the intellectual property. They literally had hit a road block, found the Harvard article, and straight up copied it. They didn't accidentally come up with the idea that happened to be similar, it was a straight up copy of the technique. The sad thing is aside from Sundau's team most of the people there NEVER come up with novel idea's, they just come up with ways of tweaking what someone else came up with. As for Sundau, he sometimes comes up with novel stuff on his own but he's the worst patent thief in the company stealing IP out from under engineers noses all the time. Here is to kicking myself for not selling my options last year when the stock was at $36. Maybe we will get a temporary bump from the lay offs we can take advantage of.

Don't drink the Kool aid. There will be happy fake messages coming then another huge announcement.

If anyone has the opportunity to explore other employment possibilities I would strongly encourage you to go after them. I can not encourage you enough to do that! The future of Microns U.S. operations are drawing to a close. Do not be one of the last to leave here. It will be harsh and painful. Take the opportunity now while you can. Save yourself some unexpected misery. Think about it!

Is there anyone reading this blog that thinks that this is the last lay off Micron will ever have? If you have made this cut, Seriously, start preparing for the next one. With a very small exception, Micron wants its operations in Asia. If you are a U.S. worker your days are numbered no matter how you look at it. Not much satisfaction in knowing that.

For all that have made it through this lay off, I am sorry to say you will be walking on "continued employment" eggshells for the coming year until the next lay off. Good luck to you!

Happy to go! Micron is not the end all for employment in Boise. Use this opportunity to find a job that is really meaningful. As an individual or a person this company doesn't give a rats assabout you. There are places to work here that do.

If you are a person who is concerned with job security a tech company is not the place to be. Especially Micron! Look a short time back. They have Regular lay offs. Sometimes large lay offs that are news stories often small like this one but they are always laying off people all the time. It's the nature of the business. It totally s---s because most people want to keep their job. I was let go on Wednesday. I asked to be let go so I am very happy. It was very unprofessional. No one knows nothing. No one has any information regarding when or why, then you are gone. It was a phone call on my day off. No thank you for eleven years ; no nothing. As soon as you are going to go they are so paranoid. Like after all those years they act like they don't even know you. it is so unprofessional and juvenile it is laughable. The lay off in our dept won't change anything. They will continue to be unbelievably slow and continue to pay people to do NOTHING, so in our area it really did nothing to improve anything except save the company the expense of a couple low end employee salaries. The saddest thing now is everyone who is left thinks they are safe, not realizing that with every passing day Asia becomes more and more important and more lay offs are coming. WITHOUT QUESTION. Sorry for anyone who has unwillingly left. You will be better off in the long run. Try your best to move on. There are other wonderful places to work in Boise. Work hard to find one of those jobs. And finally, after all is said and done, wether you still have a job or not, we are all still just a number. Their actions speak for themselves.

Other than medical cost, age, in engineering team, ranking is a factor too, high percent of E4 level been chopped since legacy fab doesn't need that much high level thinkers. They think legacy parts lower grade young engineers can handle the same job deliver same result, I truly hope so.