-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> to Bartow in 87 and they fired all their higher paid
 WC> production people with locally available cheap labor they'd
 WC> trained they approached me to come back to work as a
 WC> printer at twice what I was making at the time but as they
 WC> were assholes I declined. I believe I said something like
 WC> as long as you f???'s were a ten minute walk from my door
 WC> and you paid well it was fine but Bartow is known for 4
 WC> things, phosphate mines, radon gas in homes, migrant farm
 WC> workers and a big Ford dealership, other than that it's a
 WC> rural moonscape.

 CA> More than likely they would've eventually told you they had to
 CA> reduce your wages to bring you 'inline' with others on the
 CA> payroll. Typical cr*p to lure people into relocation.

 They did that _before_ the move, said you coulld keep your job if
 you took a pay cut. My own boss took a 5 dollar/Hr hit 
 and still was fired after the move. Don't weep for him though
 he was a creep.
 All this occured mind you mere weeks after
 the geniuse's in production voted down a union which 
 would have likely stopped plans for the move due to costs
 for job retraining for employees. I voted for the union 
 and was sadly in the minority.
 Having run into a number of people from that place since
 most all recount they got far better jobs anyway and good riddence.
 
 CA>> To keep you the company must 'buy out your contract'
 CA>> usually this figure is in the thousands of dollars and
 CA>> reduces the amount of pay the company can then offer to
 CA>> you to stay with them.

 WC> They bought me out, and very soon were paying me rather
 WC> well. Every time they pissed me off I'd threaten to quit
 WC> and bang I got a raise.

 CA> Some companies hate interviewing enough to pay the fee but
 CA> consider what they _could_ have paid you if the money went to
 CA> you instead of the agency. ;-)

 Oh they paid Charles, I had them by the short hairs
 as I could do what three printers at the other plants 
 throughout the U.S. couldn't. 
 Maintain outstanding equipment uptime, thousands of dollars of 
 printing plates running around 200 plates that saw hundreds of 
 thousands of feet of use every two days or week or two depending
 on how standard a run they were for.
 I actually got bonus for all three shifts having made the point
 Florida's plant was the largest producer and the only plant with only
 one printer. Third shift never paid bonus because they were doing
 too much drugging and drinking except for one short period where the 
 supervisor was cooking the production accounts.
 Still first and second shift was a good 150 or more extra
 takehome a week and adding my usual 60 - 66 hours
 a week the overtime ran into bucks as well.
 Mind you I went to work dead early as to beat the heat and also
 to run the standards until the managers came in to tell
 me what they needed for Walmart, ServiceStar and others.
 They hated me for doing this but it worked out extremely well
 for them and me as what I ran was always shipped in 2 days 
 and that allowed me to do the specials and still
 be off work when the banks were open.
 For a very short time I obeyed their policy and found myself
 arriving at work at 5 AM and leaving at 7 PM 6 days a week :-(
 I don't believe that lasted a week and I went back to my routine.
 AFAIK I'm the _only_ one in production they offered a pay raise to
 go with them to Bartow.
 
 
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