http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article115783533.html
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I'm at the Roseville site and this is nothing new. The population has been dwindling down here every year since manufacturing was moved to Houston in 2003. This is nothing new, WFR''s are common at this site, and now HPE is selling the site. This location won't be here for much longer.
The devil went down to Georgia. Guessing she sold her soul to the devil..guessing she is all comfortable tonight when there is people without food to feed their family and going to their local food bank. Sure is cold outside and snowing!
@1vhf your story is a great story just upset that so many families displaced because of corporate greed. Did we ever hear oh you will be getting a 5 to 10% raise as you are doing so well! No! You will be getting a 2.5% bonus if your lucky under Meg. She has shopping to do and needs to line her pockets...
Oh IHS they move them alright and then layoff whoever makes more money.
A very long sad story of more Americans losing their jobs...sad you left out the piece of jobs going over seas and all the Americans who need their jobs to raise their families assimilated with a food truck job..
@Ks6Bv8U-gel - It's a lunch truck... the original founders started with a BBQ pit on the side of the road, and expanded with a fridge, a grill... added condiments and beverages. Eventually, they discovered that to really reach their customers with their awesome cooking and secret recipes, they need to go mobile.
Then the internet hit, and the founders were pushed out of the business. While other lunch trucls were taking orders from the web, and even using "the cloud" to enhance their customer experience, the new owners decided to cut costs, firing the cooks who knew the secret recipes in favor of inexperienced, incompetent workers.
The owners appointed a new manager to help recover the business.... her solution was to continue replacing the older, knowledgeable cooks with people who had no cooking experience, delivering burned or undercooked food, often late and at higher costs; now she began parting out the lunch truck, pulling out the pit and leaving it on the side of the road "it was our core business" and slowly selling off the individual parts... the recipes sold wholesale, then the motor in the lunch truck. Eventually, the lunch truck was sitting on the side of the road, a shell sitting on cinder blocks. By that time, the new manager took her own sweet severance package, having already sold her shares in the business.
Layoffs is a regular occurrence at HPE. Honestly it happens more than "growth" activities. Meg's job is to part out HP/HPE like an RV, boat, Jeep and hawk the pieces on Craigslist.
It is often the topic of conversation among coworkers around campus.
"Did you hear about so and so?? Yeah the entire team was cut".
The layoffs will continue until moral improves.
I wonder how this will affect all of the northern CA sites. Is Fremont scheduled to close down or are they moving everyone like they say they will ever year?