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It's that sad acceptance of poor employee treatment that has slowly killed the working class in this country. I've worked at a few manufacturing places as a full-time temp, and experienced firsthand how disposible workers are in an environment of high -unemployment, low education and low pay.
Good on BMW for offering benefits and higher pay, but realize they are certainly an exception. How do you think their German employees would react to having South Carolina style labor laws imposed on them?
Last I checked, this was a thread about BMW, so who cares what other manufacturing companies do? The point is made at how BMW treats their employees, how other manufacturing firms do is really irrelevant to the discussion.
Also there is no relevance to how BMW has to operate in Germany vs how they have to operate in SC, so I'm not sure why this was even brought up.
I see most of you people like to argue. This forum gives you an outlet for which you can speak. In real life you are weak and probably overweight. In the real world you probably shy away from confrontation. I simply tried to give some insight into being temporary at BMW. I told you people I worked there. Why would I lie? I have nothing against BMW. They provided a nice living for my family for ten years. I don't care if you have toured the plant. They don't show you everything for a reason.
BMW may hire 20 or so people every 4 years or so. That is to just keep people interested in employment there. I worked there for ten years and left. I was a permenant associate. All ten years were spent on B shift from 8 at night to 6:40 am. My best advice to anyone who wants employment there is to keep looking for permenant work. I now work for another up and coming company in the upstate. BMW helped me get my foot in the door, I'm sure of that. All said and done I'm glad I left. Expect to get laid off with little to no notice when volume drops. Good Luck, hope this helps in your decisions.
I love it when they boast of '600' jobs coming to -----.
Big whoop: GM laid off twice the total number of ALL workers employed by foreign auto makers in a single round, in 2008.
And lets look at the wonders being Germany's 'Little China' in the US has done for the Greenville and Spartanburg metros unemployment rates:
I see most of you people like to argue. This forum gives you an outlet for which you can speak. In real life you are weak and probably overweight. In the real world you probably shy away from confrontation. I simply tried to give some insight into being temporary at BMW. I told you people I worked there. Why would I lie? I have nothing against BMW. They provided a nice living for my family for ten years. I don't care if you have toured the plant. They don't show you everything for a reason.
By hurling such unwarranted personal insults toward people you have never met, the credibility of your thread-specific comments, regardless of how true they may actually be, has been damaged. It is no different than someone broadly labelling everyone who opposes the policies of the current POTUS a "racist".
I think you need to go back and read the previous threads. I was basically called a liar by people who know zero about the situation. That tarnishes my credibility. As usual you people want to gang up on someone. And I don't have to know anyone to make a profile of some of the people on here. I can look and see how many posts and how many threads they have. This tells me that more than likely they spend alot of time inactive and in front of a computer. So gang up, I'm ready.
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