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Friend | 03/15/2002 | Liberatio

[Liberatio]

Subject: HI- BAD NEWS

 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:50:54 -0500

 Hello everyone,

 I thought I would let you all know that come tomorrow I may be looking for a new job.  Our company came in yesterday and fired one of our upper management people.  They have let 3 upper[-level people] and 2 detailers go so far in other offices. There is talk of closing our Big Rapids office and other satellite offices. Tomorrow we [will] receive our reviews with the Auburn big wigs.  It does not look good for me or [removed], we are low on the totem pole and have already been warned but will not know for certain till tomorrow.  It seems that our wonderful [,] highly religious company that puts quotes from the bible on our pay stubs [,] has decided to start sending our detailing to INDIA.  It seems they do it much cheaper there.  There goal is to have at least 50 % of all detailing there.  I find this not only a kick in the ass to me but to America as a whole.  So this might be my last letter to you for a short while.  I guess if this happens I will head north and try to find a job there.  [I am not] really not sure at this point.  Will keep you posted.

 [Removed]

 Ambassador Steel

2565 28th St SW # 3
Wyoming, MI 49509

(616) 534-7677
(616) 534-2385 Fax

 Ambassador Steel (corporate headquarters)

1469 Atwater
Detroit, MI 48207

(313) 259-0671

 I would really like to help these people some way and would like the help of the FReepers around here to help show this company how stupid they are.  Please contact them and let them know.  Comments are appreciated too.  I would be willing to send my friend an e-mail of support with your comments in the form of response posts as well as forward them to the company.

[El Sordo]

While losing your job is always a sucky deal, this is nothing special.

The company is being stupid by reducing expenses?

Are they gearing up for the imposed price increases in steel that they are about to face?Just what do they do?

Should a company be coerced or encouraged to hire worker A at a higher cost to worker B?

[Straight Vermonter]

I guess that is the steel industy's thank you to America for the big tariff Bush gave them.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, offhand, I'd say your friend is....F***ed!

[Texaggie79]

I thought the steel industry wanted the tarrifs so it would cost more to get foreign steel.

Doesn't matter though. It may seem harsh, but if a job can be served better overseas, so be it, that leaves the higher skill jobs for us. Just making a company do something that will hurt them financially just to keep American workers is turning a blind eye to the consumers, thusly the rest of the nation, including those original American workers.

[RLK]

Every time I say it's stupid and counterproductive, I take gas from idiots here. The company here saves money, but ask yourself how the people they are hiring at 1/3 wages are going to be a market for American manufactured products.

[El Sordo]

Movies, music, computers, finished goods....

You may as well argue that they shouldn't move jobs to another state with lower employment costs. The same logic applies, only with a different (and still arbitrary) boundary or group.

[Liberatio]

The jobs that are being cut are the designers, drafters, and detailers that do not have much of a reation to the cost and purvhasing of steel. There are some security risks to the company's clients as well. Foreigners get to look at plans for construction, how things are done within the building, and expose structural vulnerabilities(sp). Your arguments taked about purchasing steel and cutting cost, but American jobs and the saftey of American workers, as well as a companies infastructure.

[RLK]

It's far more complex than you present. I'll present a 20 page analysis on the new site when it is running.

[Liberatio]

Thanks RLK.

[Liberatio]

The part of my friend is a matter of life happening. It happens everyday. The part that concerns me is the reasons for it and their unforseen consequences.