Nissan - 1200 going

[Guest guyb]

Commiserations if any of you or your mates work at Nissan or their suppliers.  Gonna be a tough 2009, for sure.

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3445dcec-dd91-11dd-930e-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

[Guest Heneage]

Dad worked there for over 12 year, they treat staff like shite and have way too many chiefs not enough indians.

[pedro111]

I know loads of people who work there.  Shit, man.

[GM]

Terrible news for all in the North-East.

[Baggio]

Apparently the main man at the plant didn't have the balls to stand up and tell them what was going on, instead he sent a dvd around for them to watch telling them they were losing their jobs.

[GM]

Fuck off. Seriously? What a disgrace.

[Disco]

Apparently the main man at the plant didn't have the balls to stand up and tell them what was going on, instead he sent a dvd around for them to watch telling them they were losing their jobs.

 

Thats abysmal, what a cunt.

[midds]

My brother in law works at Komatsu in Birtley and he's already seen hundreds go in the last few months too. The plant haven't made or painted a single piece of machinery for ages and he spends his days behind a PC reviewing and updating company policies and procedures (just keeping folk busy tbh). The demand just isn't there and he's fearing the worst.

[indi]

Apparently the main man at the plant didn't have the balls to stand up and tell them what was going on, instead he sent a dvd around for them to watch telling them they were losing their jobs.

 

How un-Japanese of him, wonder if they do stuff like this at home now, they certainly never used to.

[pedro111]

Honestly, bar the odd one or two, the gaffers at Nissan are the biggest bunch of c***s you are ever likely to come across.

 

So it doesnt surprise me about that DVD.

[Guest Heneage]

Apparently the main man at the plant didn't have the balls to stand up and tell them what was going on, instead he sent a dvd around for them to watch telling them they were losing their jobs.

 

How un-Japanese of him, wonder if they do stuff like this at home now, they certainly never used to.

It's no surprise. The Japanese as a whole work differently to us, the buses out of the plant are nicknamed, the first one after clocking off is the "Shame bus" (loose translation). They would often stay hours over clock off time with no worry, obviously Englands a bit different .

 

I'd say the PR side of Nissan internally is really poor. My Dad worked in Tool-maintenance and repair, and they had a bait room with DVD player and Freeview that they'd use during breaks and the lunch, but they removed them didn't give them back, not just that out-right removed them for no real reason it wasn't affecting productivity at all it was used on breaks.

 

They would also ask for people to come up with cost cutting ideas. Now a few of my Dad's work mates came up with some, as did my Dad, one that it worked out at saving them a Million a year. I don't know the logistics of the idea but he didn't even get a thank you or a bonus or just a cheap bottle of plonk. The place slowly descended into being hated, and there was stories of workers "Borrowing stuff".

[indi]

Apparently the main man at the plant didn't have the balls to stand up and tell them what was going on, instead he sent a dvd around for them to watch telling them they were losing their jobs.

 

How un-Japanese of him, wonder if they do stuff like this at home now, they certainly never used to.

It's no surprise. The Japanese as a whole work differently to us, the buses out of the plant are nicknamed, the first one after clocking off is the "Shame bus" (loose translation). They would often stay hours over clock off time with no worry, obviously Englands a bit different .

 

I'd say the PR side of Nissan internally is really poor. My Dad worked in Tool-maintenance and repair, and they had a bait room with DVD player and Freeview that they'd use during breaks and the lunch, but they removed them didn't give them back, not just that out-right removed them for no real reason it wasn't affecting productivity at all it was used on breaks.

 

They would also ask for people to come up with cost cutting ideas. Now a few of my Dad's work mates came up with some, as did my Dad, one that it worked out at saving them a Million a year. I don't know the logistics of the idea but he didn't even get a thank you or a bonus or just a cheap bottle of plonk. The place slowly descended into being hated, and there was stories of workers "Borrowing stuff".

 

That's a totally un-Japanese way to run things and I'm surprised that they allowed it to be like that.

 

Re the thing about the bus, in Japan it works both ways, the workers work their arses off and are really loyal and the company is loyal to them in return. It's only really recently that they stopped the whole "job for life" thing. The Japanese way is for all aspects of a company to work together and look out for each other (the whole Kaizen, Keiretsu, etc, stuff), including workers, management, and even suppliers and other "stake-holders". It was my understanding that that's how it was at Nissan, at least when it first opened anyway, but it sounds like that's not happening any more, from what you say.

[Guest Heneage]

Yeah exactly, I think that's why it was weird for the British lads going over they were expected to work their nuts off for a company that treats them like shite. In fact I remember my Dad asking me to find some research about the fact the Japanese employees got a bonus for hitting a productivity target that was worse that what Sunderland was already achieving and had been for months.

 

Like I said its a PR nightmare from start to finish, they treat the staff like shite then seemed surprised at people half inching stuff, my Dad managed to get a Dell Monitor and a work mate got away with a front bumper of a jeep. There was also an urban legend about a Micra going missing, there was some stolen but that was robbers.