Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

Cost cuts is way more apparent this time then any other cuts. Sad. BOISE NEEDS another tech sector in town so that Micron can stop doing this on a whim.

45+ at Folsom. That is more than 10%. Is the test floor still there? SSD group?

about +45.

Does anyone know how many lost their jobs in Folsom?

I didn't even get the courtesy of being walked out. My bosses manager called me on the phone while I was on vacation with my family and said sorry to do this but due to cost cutting initiatives we are letting you go. That's it, not thank you for your hard work nada. Oh wait, she also said, we will mail you your stuff from your desk..... Never had a review below a 4 and the last one was a 5 and was highly regarded by me peers and relied upon to fix problems when they couldn't. Yesterday my boss said he can't even talk to me or his job would be at risk. Last week I was talking to by boss about the layoffs and if I had anything to worry about and was told only if the entire group got the ax. Turns out I'm the only one that got the ax and some new hires of less than 6 months under the same manager didn't. The only thing I can guess is because my family and I had some major health expenses recently and used a substantial amount of my health benefit the last two years (maxing out the family out of pocket and then some) upper management decided by getting rid of those that raise the company negotiated insurance rates they could lower corporate costs while keeping employee premiums the same. That's probably a stretch but I can't wrap my head around what just happened. I wouldn't classify myself as a "yes man" but I'm definitely a "whatever it takes man". There are those in my group and sister groups that were the blaring choice to go. Maybe these odd lay offs of top performers are so supervisors have an easier time with the next round and can ax the easy fodder. Who knows maybe the next round of "fodder" or "seat warmers" won't get a severance package. What I can say is that i'm glad I own my own business and have decent income from it or I'd be a whole lot more bothered than I am right now.

I was walked out in 2013 after 15+ years. Never received a bad review or written up. Found out later the decision came from not my supervisor or his manager, but by the upper middle management who really had no clue of the day to day work. I also saw the list of names/ages of those who were let go (apparently this is required by law) At least 80% were 40+ American males. It was obvious that Micron discriminates against age. However, in order to get your severance you are required to sign a form stating that you won't sue the company.

To the senior level operator, you're not alone. Most, if not all of us here sacificed a hell of a lot more in a few years than the champagne sipping, caviar and cracker eating, country club golf cart driving, snarky-ass mid-level and executive-level management louts could put in an entire lifetime. We made this company money for them to misappropriate on behalf of their incompetence and this is how we get paid back for our efforts...by making us pay for their mistakes with our careers. Besides, if market conditons where to blame, then perhaps they can explain why Hynix is making profits with their DRAM sales while the corporate clowns spend their entire days in board room meetings talking about things they don't intend to fix other than cuts cuts cuts cuts and more cuts. Putting a band aid on cuts doesn't solve the problem when you keep marching your troops into a bed of thorns, ignoring the warning signs now does it marky mark durcan?

Anyway, if you didn't wear knee pads and said "yes" all the time, you weren't liked. Forget your work ethics and principles, the good ol' boys are looking for a few good men to butter them up with things they want to hear, not your innovative thinking or your personal sacrifices and we all had to learn that the hard way. Good luck to you, buddy.

This will be my last post on this site, I don't want to be a dick and hijack this post anymore than I already have at this point.

Others need this space to share what they have and it needs to be said, regardless of what it will accomplish. We know it won't change anything, but perhaps it can read by someone who is thinking about working at Micron as a dire warning to stay the hell away. It is far from the company I used to know and embrace at one time. That being said, I wish everyone, including those who survived (except the management and their knee pad wearing snitch bitch servants) the very best and more. It was an honor folks, even to those I never had the pleasure of meeting personally. Blessings to you and your families during these awful times.

Was also walked out. Been with Micron 14 years. Never imagined I could be on list. In all my years, not a single low performance ratings or any issues. I have heard from a few people that are still there that it is same ol good old boys that are around.

I am sure what will be spun is that layoffs are done and we will continue to look at cost measures blah blah blah

No travel. No IPP. They may save face and give the smallest of raises since it's been over two years.

Same not so honest people who only look out for their posse and crap really runs deep here. Don't trust for a minute that things will turn around. Best hope is Intel purchase.

And if you think I'm just bitter. I still work here. I just know people that have been let go and should not have. It's such a joke and no sign of getting better. Lol. My favorite line of sh-- was a few months back when HR sent out note about not doing annual survey for refining process. Aka. We really don't give a sh-- about what you think nor do we want to hear about it in a survey that is public to employees. So keep telling them what you want to hear HR and hide in your offices. Already had a huge VP bolt this week, he was smart.

Also being sued left and right. The smart bet is being bought while it's still worth even doing by someone. You will soon here how they are doing some measures in Japan.. closing shop

I've been with the company for almost 20 freakin' years, and yesterday I was walked out the door. I was a Senior Operator, a grunt laborer who could get the job done right the first time around and efficiently, too. I've always been a "model" employee--perfect attendance, high number job output, high quality. But. I was getting lots of paid time off per month, had used some health insurance benefits, was expensive to keep compared to a temporay contractor employee who received sh@#$%. Always told during my evaluations that I was a great employee and an asset to the company. So WTF do they do but terminate me! Kiss my ass Micron, I'm gonna draw unemployment against you until the cows come home, baby. What a relief to wake up from this nightmare...I really thought I was making a difference. Geesh, the joke's on me.

So are HR people being cut too or juse the engineers that make the company $? Really would like to see these stats. Also curious about the last commenters post. When are these second and third rounds supposed to be?

To whomever wrote the "disclaimer" post:

I hear what you are saying but mark lied to us then when he said in his email that we would lose less than 5% of the workforce. He also lied about saving the company $80 million when I hear from you that that number is at or above $100 million, which is also verifiable from other online sources. In fact, ernie isn't even consistent with the public on those figures, telling some sources $80 million here, $100 million there, $120 million here, back to $80 million there. Not driven by workforce percentages? Fine, whatever. The fact remains the mark and his legion of rhinestone cowboys could never get their sh-- straight from day one. He has single handedly f---ed this company with his pretosperous fiscally wasteful and irresponsible programs from his overzealous confidence in his product portfolios to his cheesy feel-good "m-power" and "transformation" kiddie parties. Did I mention parties? He threw a circus day parade party at MTV a week after the 2013 layoffs and now there is this "Aloha'" party planned at MTV (probably company-wide for all I know, of course being as transparent as he is, I would never know anyway) after this latest round of layoffs occurrs. You tell me just how ethical that is? The fact that all of us who lost our jobs are paying for these parties with our lost jobs or his smiling face at the boardroom table sending out vague information on who is actually going to the unemployment line?

I appreciate your follow up, assuming you are not some troll, which I have no way of telling. But given the fact that neither he nor his minions of rhinestone cowboys ever have to worry about job security, ever, the fact that this man and his good ol' boys are historical and pathological liars, given that they have the tenacity and sociopathic tendancies to throw parties right after layoffs, his targeting of the American workforce for "cost reduction," and finally his policies that have wrecked the morale of the majority of the American workforce (sans the knee pad wearing yes men), no amount of cost reductions or cuts cuts cuts cuts will ever address the underlying problems with this company. What are these problems? Your leadership.

Disclaimer: I feel bad for what's happening and what is still going to happen so I'm going to share some information that was intended to be kept undisclosed. For obvious reasons I won't however provide any information as to whom I may be or how I might know the following.

The first round of ISP went down yesterday. There will be two to three more rounds. This first round was director level lay off selections. The next round will be direct supervisor selections. The following will be follow up supervisor/manager selections when the first round dust settles.

Remember the lay offs are fiscally driven so it really can't be just contingent on numbers or %'s of people. Expect mostly E2-E3's and T2-T3's being gone in the first round (yesterday) and E1-E2's and T1-T2's being gone the next rounds. We are shooting for a dollar amount saved, the public announcement is 100 mil a quarter but the "real goal" is closer to 120 mil per quarter. Micron has a duty to the stockholders to meet or exceed those announcements or risk the stock dropping even further.

If you didn't read between the lines in the last team meeting and Durcan message, we are cutting several EM architectures. Translation: that means complete purges of those technologies and ALL the non lead members of those teams. Expect the "good old boys" members of those teams to be re-assigned to other areas.

This move is one of desperation to secure cash flow, do not mistake it for anything else. The situation is dire, aspects of the new fab have been brought to a halt and money taken from that project to cover operations. To be absolutely frank Micron may not make it through the next quarter without defaulting.

If you think for one second it's not still good old boys that stay and are kept then you are delusional. This place is corrupt as hell and one day will be exposed for what it is. Lawsuit or something will get them. Karma. Good luck. see u all laid off again in a year or two

We lost three designers in our group today. Three people that actually made meaningful contribution to projects...whereas we have a process guy with a fancy title that contributes ZERO who is still around. I don't understand who makes these decisions.

Nice HR dept.. the biggest joke of all the groups. Two Vps who are butt kissers and so out of touch it's comical. We like unicorns and anything Durcan says I will play with my hair and smile. The other is a robot.

We lost a small number of people from my group in Boise today. The took big paychecks but were weak contributors at best. I was surprised that other groups lost a whole bunch of very technical/competent engineers. None of the good o'l boys got cut... no surprise there. The big bosses seem to have the most buddies in sweetheart director positions ...with one or two reports and nothing to do.

Be glad you can get out ahead of the rest when this horrible company is bought or closed down.

MTV will be closed down soon. They also are selling Elpida. Run from this sh--hole

I was with the YE department at the Manassas site with 11 years of employment there. I don't know who, if anyone else there met the same fate. Funny how durcan sits on his little chair smiling and saying that we are going through a "workforce reduction," then ends his email with, "we will be a stronger company." I see. Stronger by whose terms exactly and by what means?

We have for almost 4 years, dealt with chronic shortages of scanning electron microscopes, broken down equipment, antiquated software, one headcount reduction after another, a constant bottleneck of work that couldn't get done because of the extreme lack of resources available, and to top it all off, we get rejected by Boise managent for even one f*g dual beam. Benefit cuts, impossibly stringent criteria for getting a pay raise, when this was never an issue when Appleton was at the helm, cuts here cuts there, cuts, cuts, cuts, and more cuts and then they yell at us for RMA's? On top of all this, add micromanaging, bureaucratic "yes but's" to innovative and creative thinking, and near rock bottom lab morale.

With all this said, he actually believes more of this bulls**t, plus laying off people due to his and his minion's incompetency will somehow pave the way for a bright future? Meanwhile, durcan saves his $80 million for his nice mansion, first class tickets on Qatar airlines, sipping on expensive wine, while his "workforce reductions" wreck havoc on thousands of families who pay mortgages, put food on the table, and leave everyone to tend for themselves in an uncertain market that continues to see itself shrinking from outsourcing jobs. So while he basks in the warm Carribean sun, telling himself how "life is good," those who remain have to work with even less resources, lower morale, more micromanaging, and somehow make something that is already failing work?

I don't wish this upon anyone of my buddies still there but it is clear to me that, given Boise's contempt for Manassas under durcan can only suggest that it is a matter of time. If they can axe a whole bunch of us, who are responsible for making sure we aren't selling junk, who were already understaffed and even more underfunded, then who can possibly tell me that "a stronger company" will emerge? Yeah maybe, not for the American workforce, and certainly not for Manassas.

Best of luck to everyone, employed or otherwise. I hope everything works out for you guys, you deserve better.

For the management (upper and most mid-level), I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire and especially you durcan, you worthless piece of sh*t.

Around 70 people were cut from Longmont today. Pretty much complete purges in areas including ASIC design, verification, validation, and system architecture. First & second-level management were also part of it.

The only way for Micron to survive is to clean up the house, I mean move everything to overseas. I've seen too many good people got walked because they didn't belong to the good old boyz' club. Yeah, time to clean up the house, Micron...too many parasites within the management.

I don't understand how those dull micromanages and their submissive, and some abused, buddies will advance through the innovation Micron urgently needs at this point in order to survive the competition in the semiconductor business. Their evaluation method for who to keep is secret, seems totally corrupt and and full of personal selfishness. As a new employee on a first industry job I understood only at the end that those dumb and irresponsible micromanages highlight any works of dime and penny if it is done by their submissive buddies. Works done by honest and smart members which makes big impact in cost saving and successful development are ignored and those are the ones being fired now. This is how R &D seems to be running at Boise Micron. Hope Micron will survive...

Layoffs are still ongoing at Folsom. Final count unknown.

I was let go out of Folsom today. Does anyone know many people were let go at folsom?

Intel is also letting people go. It is a sad time to be in the Semiconductor business. Companies know they can treat employees like dirt and get away with it. Very few make it to retirement at Micron. Time to get out.

I agree with the previous statement about innovation. Micron has created a culture that inhibits it. We are required to achieve an innovation goal, but we are given no time, resources or support. Furthermore, engineers are afraid to question managements decisions because those who do are the first out the door during the layoff. Micron's future innovation will only come from acquisitions.

The axe has fallen in Folsom. We lost some good people today.

I just got escorted out of one of Microns buildings today on 7/13/2016. I was part of a small team who were already shorthanded 3 members. Two of the gentlemen who got hired on with me quit months ago and I was the last hired and last remaining guy. We were not part of manufacturing or anything in fact the division we worked for was likely the only division within Micron making any god damn money. I believe there were about 15 people who got walked out today one of them was a mid level manager. I was only hired on about 1.5 years ago, so thanks for hiring and firing me Micron. Stop f---ing things up like your Firmware for SSD's so we didn't have to ship them back to you because they are unsaleable. Marc Durcan, you took our top time away, our business travel, our bonuses and now our people. I know what you made this year in your stock dividends and your bullshit is real. I was talking to my wife the other day about how I honestly don't think Micron will be around in another 10 years. They do not know how to innovate without Intel's help and it appears that Intel doesn't cooperate well anyways. Good luck everybody left at Micron. Count your days, they are limited.

This place is ran by leaders who don't have a clue. Out of touch with how the real work is done. Some real shady decisions and no basis how others are treated. One day soon it won't say Micron on building.

I just spent 2 months overseas ASIA to be exact and all the work is going there. Out of 300 people being trained only 3 were American. We are on constant rotation to Asian countries to set them up. Very sad to say the least. Intel has a massive fab in Arizona and it sits empty while they move their latest process to Israel. I worked at Micron back in the golden years and I believe they are a strong company but they have their sites set on higher profits. I think in the next 10 yrs. most of the HVM manufacturing will be in ASIA. Tool sells to EUROPE CURRENTLY? 0% USA 5 % ASIA 95%. Writing is on the wall. Time to go towards the medical field.

Of course, the big tech companies claim H-1B workers are their last resort, and that they can't find qualified Americans to fill jobs. Pressing to raise the visa cap last year, Microsoft pointed to 6,000 job openings at the company.

Yet if tech workers are in such short supply, why are so many of them unemployed or underpaid? According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), tech employment rates still haven't rebounded to pre-recession levels.

The ease of hiring H-1B workers certainly hasn't helped. More than 80 percent of H-1B visa holders are approved to be hired at wages below those paid to American-born workers for comparable positions, according to EPI. Experts who track labor conditions in the technology sector say that older, more expensive workers are particularly vulnerable to being undercut by their foreign counterparts. "You can be an exact match and never even get a phone call because you are too expensive," says Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California-Davis. "The minute that they see you've got 10 or 15 years of experience, they don't want you."

When R&D is run by management using 'project managers' that think that risk management, process, and group-think are substitutes for solid design, reasoned problem solving, and invention, of course the pace of innovation. goes to a standstill. So the outcome is kludgey rubed-up chips and systems befitting of Micron's way-down-the-list market share. Then, management geniuses blame commodity pricing troughs for losses that only get worse with every cycle. The trend and the future should be pretty clear – and it's not a matter of offshoring.

I think our best chance would be to become a citizen of another country (not US) and then we'd have a better chance to be hired at Micron. It seems that we must lead the industry in firing American citizens and then back filling them by relocating foreign citizens to Boise.

A real crappy environment right now. People walking around numb and scared.

very good engineers but too many useless vp's and directors at micron.

last time (i'm one of 5% of 2013) they tell me "we have to do this to save all other"....now who are all other???.....the worse company could invest in Italy...F--- YOU micron

Those retarded management already forced people to sign the VSP, took their badges and kicked them out. Some of those people haven't submitted their VSP because the dead line is still 10 days away (July 11) but they already got kicked out of their jobs. They did this because they wanted to keep their friends and their buddies from getting laid off once the involuntary date kick in on July 12.

MICRON IS THE LAYOFF KING OF THE WORLD. BEST PLACE TO GET LAID OFF AWARD GOES TO....

MICRON!!!!!!! AWARD WINNER 2005. 2008.2010. 2013 AND NOW 2016

I am on an H1B Visa from China and I am very very scared of the layoff. I work too hard and do not whine like american peoples do. H1B people should stay safe from the layoff and lazy americans get pink papers.