GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/05/recall-alert-2014-chevrolet-silverado-and-gmc-sierra-2015-chevrolet-tahoe.html Fortunately it's not that many.
Forum Discussion
I agree with both of you Mich and Gypsy but check this out.
Last Sunday I took a machine down to change an expired calibration bottle(calibration out of date). I found the o-ring was cut and went to get a replacement. When I got back the area manager was waiting for me and started yelling at me wanting to know why this wasn't done on days and who was I to take a machine off line without informing him. I told him that the gage tech that was working on days was not familiar with the procedure and I was instructed to change it at the start of my shift.
My direct supervisor called me at home on Monday telling me that the area manager e-mailed her, telling her to write me up and give me ten days off for causing 35 minutes of lost production. She responded that, she had given me a direct order to change the bottle and if anyone was getting anytime off for it, it would be her! Well her boss the head of Quality was copied on her e-mail along with others. Well about 2 hours into my shift the area manager comes up to me and apologizes for being an a$$.
BTW my supervisor is only one of about a couple of supervisors that would back their employees and takes a lot of heat for it. To bad she is not the norm. Shut a line down at an assembly plant and you're going to be walked out the gate and not for 3 or ten days either. You have to tag the vehicle and it gets repaired later. More than three tags in 30 days from the same worker and you get time off. First time you get three days. If it happens again within 12 months you get ten days, then 30 and then you're fired. BTW those are rolling 12 months from the last infraction.
The pace at an assembly plant is such that for every 30 workers hired only ten make it past 30 days and out of those only one will make it to the magical 90 days and get hired. You are not protected by the union during your probation time and NO temporary part timers or vacation replacements are protected by the union either.
All for the very low wage of $14 to start and you top out at just over $20 per hour. It takes four long years to get to the top. To give you an idea of how poor their pay is, when I hired in at Chrysler my starting pay was $13.90 in 1999! So in fifteen year new hires are starting at the same wage an top out four years later less then I would have topped out had I stayed in production. Kind of sad, no wonder kids today can't buy a new car let alone own a house and raise a family. This is the first generation in these United States that the next generation will be worse off than the last.
OK rant over you can return to bashing GM for having some recalls.
Don
Last Sunday I took a machine down to change an expired calibration bottle(calibration out of date). I found the o-ring was cut and went to get a replacement. When I got back the area manager was waiting for me and started yelling at me wanting to know why this wasn't done on days and who was I to take a machine off line without informing him. I told him that the gage tech that was working on days was not familiar with the procedure and I was instructed to change it at the start of my shift.
My direct supervisor called me at home on Monday telling me that the area manager e-mailed her, telling her to write me up and give me ten days off for causing 35 minutes of lost production. She responded that, she had given me a direct order to change the bottle and if anyone was getting anytime off for it, it would be her! Well her boss the head of Quality was copied on her e-mail along with others. Well about 2 hours into my shift the area manager comes up to me and apologizes for being an a$$.
BTW my supervisor is only one of about a couple of supervisors that would back their employees and takes a lot of heat for it. To bad she is not the norm. Shut a line down at an assembly plant and you're going to be walked out the gate and not for 3 or ten days either. You have to tag the vehicle and it gets repaired later. More than three tags in 30 days from the same worker and you get time off. First time you get three days. If it happens again within 12 months you get ten days, then 30 and then you're fired. BTW those are rolling 12 months from the last infraction.
The pace at an assembly plant is such that for every 30 workers hired only ten make it past 30 days and out of those only one will make it to the magical 90 days and get hired. You are not protected by the union during your probation time and NO temporary part timers or vacation replacements are protected by the union either.
All for the very low wage of $14 to start and you top out at just over $20 per hour. It takes four long years to get to the top. To give you an idea of how poor their pay is, when I hired in at Chrysler my starting pay was $13.90 in 1999! So in fifteen year new hires are starting at the same wage an top out four years later less then I would have topped out had I stayed in production. Kind of sad, no wonder kids today can't buy a new car let alone own a house and raise a family. This is the first generation in these United States that the next generation will be worse off than the last.
OK rant over you can return to bashing GM for having some recalls.
Don
