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Michael Dell in Limerick on monday next
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Beer Baron wrote: »No No you see we have fond memories.
In EMF1 where the systems were on their way to the backend of the lines they used to travels up and down and all over the shop. We stuffed a lad into one of the boxs and put it through the tape machines so the box was essentially sealed. We spotted a boss coming and legged it. He dissapeared off along the lines and, as you can imagine, when we went looking for him we couldn't figure out what box he was in until we saw it moving and shouting(box's don't normally shout).
When EMF1 was being stripped down it was being used like PACO for storage. The lads had made themselves a rounders court and being the good sport I joined in. Again, one of the floor managers came around and we vanished into the maze of boxes. As the lines were all gone the box's were stacked everywhere. Needle in haystack.
I had a red neck cord, yellow neck cord, black neck cord and green neck cord, two pagers and a mobile at one stage towards the end of my sub contracting days YET managed to do sweet FA.
Having 30 minutes breakfasts and 1.5 hour lunchs was grand though. If my boss, from across town, wanted to visit he would have to wait until I signed him in. So I always knew where he was.
Watching the old hands on the bus in trick their friend at the bus stop. "Right so sham you have to pay 50c to get the bus, sure you hardly thought the bus was free" only to piss themselves laughing when the bus driver looked at him funny.
Watching guys impatient to get into work(
) climb out the fire exit at the back of the bus and get a bollicking off a bus driver.
Watch the two bus's crash at the exit of Raheen because they were ACTUALLY racing was weird because the window shattered in on a few people when the wing mirror collided half way down our bus.
Ah those were the days.
Everybody from Dell days has Dell stories.
EDIT Oh yeah, in the early days putting a power supply of the wrong voltage in the chassis so when the guys in the testing area plugged them in they got a shock up the arm.
no wonder dell pulled out, you couldnt blame them after reading about that carry on,0 -
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and a cleaner came running out accompanied by two of her mates, shaking she was, i overheard the general gist of it was she'd walked in on three lads up to no good in the one cubicle! :eek:
I remember that. What i heard was 2 were doin the biz and one was shaking hands with the man while watching
Loads of stories in there. Remember when the 2 lads got fired cos one of them had taken a picture down a girls top, but then the bosses saw more of the pics where she had the nerps out and they realised that she had been posing for them all along. Or the poor chap who turned up in a Rangers top and was nearly murdered down in shipping. He was walking around all day in a vest after being warned to lose the jersey.
There was a rumour that some of the cleaners were doling out head in the lads jacks for money as well but that sounded too far fetched.0 -
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Simon Adebisi wrote: »There was a rumour that some of the cleaners were doling out head in the lads jacks for money as well but that sounded too far fetched.
FYP, and then it doesnt sound far fetched at all! 0 -
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Ahh..Dell stories! So many to recall! Some of my favourites were:
The fella that used to come in through the double doors of the factory floor,amd the second he was in there he'd drop to his knees, do a "we're not worthy" salute and repeat "Thank You Michael Dell. Thank You Michael Dell". He was from town and all!!
The fella that wanted the canteen TO BE MOVED near to Line 7 because it was "too long of a walk" for him.
The fella that used to dip croissants into his bowl of custard.
The fella that once asked a EMEA head honcho at a town hall meeting "Whats the story with the mice balls in the internet room? They're always getting robbed!"
The fella that would ask to have the obituaries printed off so he could go to all the funerals that evening for the free food in the pub after,regardless whether he knew the person or not.
The fella that once proposed to a line manager with a ring from a barm brack. And subsequently got suspended.
The fella that fired a tape gun at another operator while a tour from Belguim was going around the line.
The fella that fell asleep beside foam inserts one morning and when operators tried to lift him up they found a bottle of vodka in each pocket of his leather jacket weighing him down.
I could go on!! 0 -
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no, the reason dell pulled out is because they got massive financial incentives from the polish government to set up there, where dell thought they could pay pittance = PROFITS!!
it didnt quite work out that way though, it actually ended up costing them huge amounts because it was like the stock literally grew legs, people were walking out with stuff to the value of a years wages after a weeks employment. the place was chaos, so dell in an effort to quickly get it off their hands, had to pass over all the grant money they got from the polish government to foxconn, who now occupy the plant, as dell have moved out to china, where they can pay their employees 10 cent a day for the same work they were doing over here at a minimum wage of €8.65 an hour.
simple economics.
stick around though, you sound like a delightful fellow.
You're so way off the mark with the Poland, China and the Foxconn remarks that I don't even know what to say. Where do people get this BS from??? 0 -
no, the reason dell pulled out is because they got massive financial incentives from the polish government to set up there, where dell thought they could pay pittance = PROFITS!!
it didnt quite work out that way though, it actually ended up costing them huge amounts because it was like the stock literally grew legs, people were walking out with stuff to the value of a years wages after a weeks employment. the place was chaos, so dell in an effort to quickly get it off their hands, had to pass over all the grant money they got from the polish government to foxconn, who now occupy the plant, as dell have moved out to china, where they can pay their employees 10 cent a day for the same work they were doing over here at a minimum wage of €8.65 an hour.
simple economics.
stick around though, you sound like a delightful fellow.
You're so way off the mark with the Poland, China and the Foxconn remarks that I don't even know what to say. Where do people get this BS from???
any chance you'd care to enlighten me?
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I'll try
You are greatly exaggerating the problems Dell had in Poland.
I don't know where you are getting the stuff about Dell having to give back the grant money.
Dell still own and run the Poland plant (the planned sale of the plant to Foxconn didn't go through).
Dell have subcontracted out most of the Notebook manufacturing to Foxconn in China.0 -
any chance you'd care to enlighten me?
First of all, have you been to the Polish plant? I have, and I can assure you no one was walking out of there with a years salary worth of stuff under their coat.
When leaving, you have to empty all pockets and walk through a metal detector, then you get a going over with a wand scanner, then you have to open your bag and let security have a look through it, before putting it onto an X-ray machine. You also have to turn your phones screen on, to prove that you're not smuggling anything out in its battery compartment.
Secondly, Foxconn do not occupy the Polish plant. It is still a Dell facility. Foxconn pulled out of that deal months ago.
Dell, also have not moved to China. In fact they were already in China long before they were in Poland. But the Chinese manufacturing that I assume you're refering to isn't done by Dell, it's outsourced to third party vendors, such as Foxconn, Compal, Wistron etc...0 -
First of all, have you been to the Polish plant? I have, and I can assure you no one was walking out of there with a years salary worth of stuff under their coat.
When leaving, you have to empty all pockets and walk through a metal detector, then you get a going over with a wand scanner, then you have to open your bag and let security have a look through it, before putting it onto an X-ray machine. You also have to turn your phones screen on, to prove that you're not smuggling anything out in its battery compartment.
Secondly, Foxconn do not occupy the Polish plant. It is still a Dell facility. Foxconn pulled out of that deal months ago.
Dell, also have not moved to China. In fact they were already in China long before they were in Poland. But the Chinese manufacturing that I assume you're refering to isn't done by Dell, it's outsourced to third party vendors, such as Foxconn, Compal, Wistron etc...I'll try
You are greatly exaggerating the problems Dell had in Poland.
I don't know where you are getting the stuff about Dell having to give back the grant money.
Dell still own and run the Poland plant (the planned sale of the plant to Foxconn didn't go through).
Dell have subcontracted out most of the Notebook manufacturing to Foxconn in China.
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Ash.J.Williams wrote: »Is it true WANG were setting up a customer care centre in Limerick called "wang care"?
Nah. But you might be thinking of Wayne Kerr Electronics. 0 -
excellent!Snickers Man wrote: »
I was just seeing if anyone knew the same urban legend i was getting at there...that "WANG CARE" was about to be set up, and an Irish employee suggested that the name wouldn't work well in Ireland and the UK, and he was called to head office in japan or wherever to explain why "WANG CARE" was funny!0 -
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there is some talk about dell manufacturing smart phones in limerick. probably **** talk. below is a link about michael dells visit and basically what happened.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/dell-gives-morale-boosting-talk-to-limerick-workers-167278.html
I know a few former production operators(who doesn't) who received their redundancy and in one facebook post they wanted to "give him a smack" yesterday and in another post you could tell they were on the edge of their seat wondering will manufacturing return to Limerick.
1. So they wouldn't have to go to any trouble looking for a job
2. So the bus would stop outside their front door
3. They could work with their friends again in the easiest job in the world, in the dell cells. 3 screwdrivers and a few boxes of different sized screws
Somebody could tell us. Are there any production lines in this country for the production of these phones? I was aware the production floor is now cubicle heaven.
Seems they can't sell those lines in Poland so I suppose they could bring them back.
But still, honestly, if we are too expensive to build their systems then why would be any better at building smart phones?0 -
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