You forgot coordinator bee….. you know, the uneducated,unqualified ones with fancy titles
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Bees on site are Manager, supervisor, senior, chief, director and vp roles.
What’s a “worker” bee
A honey making revenue stream.
Nice
Listing the excuses for no homey, honey.
Engineering were unable to design a beehive more efficient than that has been used for 1000’s of years
Wrong type of bee specified. All queen bees no worker bees.
Bees escaped
Lids don’t fit jars
Honey has gone off. Really !
Bees were not double vaccinated
Stampers stamped the bees too hard
Recovery plan.
Bulk buy from Aldi, stream off the labels and rebrand
The risks for recovery plan
Nobody has £1 for the trolly.
One of the 17 managers is not present to vote therefore stalemate 8/8
The amount of man hrs plus HR involvement meetings will be all consuming.
Managers will be busier than any bee.
As of Monday maintenance department are building a pop up market stall, this will be situated out the front of the building next to the sign that says we are an Oil and Gas company. There will be jars of honey for sale from the bee hotels, bring your kids along and they can pet the hedgehogs if they come out of their B&B ….. just watch you don’t get stung!, the honey there will just be for show , but orders will be taken and delivered some time next spring(if you’re lucky), there will probably be 17people managing the stall, but don’t worry how it looks, they all know what they’re doing.
Wait for the huge working capital write down. Which is already in progress.
Who remembers the people who built this stockpile to be scrapped. We know who you are.
Then redundancies and facility closures. In no particular order.
Gateshead has always been on the list. The worst best secret. NOV only bought Anson for the brand.
The only people who hold that flag are Scottish director, and his underlings
Simply can’t compete now.
Surely there’s an announcement due, will the bees and hedgehogs get evicted once the place is closed
It’s taken years in the making, with the best minds and a striking business plan
We have saved £0.03 on the price of 1000 paperclips.
It’s just the beginning. The Phoenix is about to rise to the dizzy heights of photo copping paper.
Reality is purchasing are best left to stationary.
Anything else is p-t luck either when it’s delivered or what is delivered.
I have a puppy Great Dane. Less clumsy than purchasing.
No, no improvement, just like Greengate, just saying
This place can’t still be open…… can it?!?!?
We have been silenced.
A concerned face does not make you a gaffer.
A defeated walk does not make you a gaffer.
Walking around singing 80s songs does not make you a gaffer.
30 years hitting stuff with hammers does not make you a gaffer.
Buck teeth does not make you a gaffer.
You will never be a real gaffer.
It’s more than any 10 years behind!!, there’s a massive skill set externally that could run this place properly, but it’s the stampers and labourers they put in positions they don’t belong and never should…… that single decision is what is going to close the place, if the blokes in those positions had any decency they would hold their hands up and admit they haven’t a clue what they’re doing and never will………… but they won’t coz they’ve never been on and never will be again on so good money !
Reality is that matter is there over many years, it’s been miss managed. Everything is done by crisis management. No thought process
Diversity is key, can’t even look for new opportunities outside O&G, it’s all renewable now or sub con.
Can’t elevate or manage the that. It’s simple year one university economics.
Gateshead and NOV is at least 10 years behind.
Hanging by a weathered weak thread
Security told to chain the gates up tonight !!
This sounds just like Greengate only further North
Is it any wonder any order will be sent out to subcon
Takes NOV Eng Gateshead 4 weeks to even look at the project, by which time we’re running late. then blame
Sales even though they have been engaged. Then tooling, then the impossible material we need to source then it’s late. Then it’s manufactured and scrapped…. And the story goes on and on
No wonder we are losing out.
Udders 😂😂😂😂
See we've got another big order in that nobody is talking about, because we won't see it as Udders will be sending it to sub con.
I see a job for a planner
Those who can’t plan a lash up in a brewery please. You will be top of list.
Whistleblow it. Totally anonymous and have to investigate.
HR better have all their paperwork in order.
Our union representative who has been off for the last nine month has come back and miraculously ended up on tattoo’s shift? The bloke who’s saved his skin on every redundancy because it wasn’t his work output or ability that saved him, Fiddling the Kronos for him worse than Miller ever did. Kronos needs to be investigated look at how much is in a pallet not the efficiency!
The paintshop will prosper.
Gateshead for ever
Like I said the paintshop will keep us afloat.
Union has to represent people to ‘run’ the place ……..helmets !!…… one of the p155 takers hasn’t been seen for a year!!
Wrong. The paintshop does.
the union run this factory end ov !!! thats why the management love us
Any improvement at gateshead yet?
Giving note to files out for:
Not socially distancing.
(Shop Floor Only)
I like this change in POLICY, because it keeps the box tickers busy.
Whats a D and A test?
D & A tests tomorrow.
This is how sick the management are
Why hasn't the union been in about the fake pay rise yet?
HR Runs this factory not the management team.
The paintshop and the assembly fitters will be okay.
September if not earlier. Anyone who falls in office duties and under the control of Production are the focus next. The likes of planning, order processing, purchasing, certs etc
Plus a few from Eng will go.
The paintshop are the section that s going to keep us alive
gateshead’ is FINISHED fact !!!!!!
We all know who the linked in click bate is.
It’s like Facebook. Nobody cares anymore. There are better platforms to promote a business. Oh your stuck 15 years behind anything at Gateshead. Mmmm maybe that’s a problem.
The barrel is dry now only family members, those who are connected and hangers on are left.
Weak management from Production, even weaker from those who promote and attempt to take the site forward from a sales and marketing perspective.
Locations Globally have been saturated and still are with the legacy of Sales and stock is King. All done when blinding signs of a downturn were evident, even a cushion could see it coming. This is the level what we’re dealing with.
This stock is sitting in warehouses , or being written off to reduce capital. Best estimate £15m plus from Gateshead.
It’s been systematic ever since the takeover. Chance after chance, opportunity after opportunity.
As the Pink Floyd song goes “year after year it’s like swimming in a fish bowl”
NOTHING will stop Gateshead from closing.
Apparently covid is rife at Gateshead but don’t worry everything is ok stick in guys
Meanwhile on linked in….. all ‘management’ are ma---------g over the good old days of Anson……. Let it go guys, it’ll never recover as long as uneducated id--ts are in charge of things they know nothing about…. You’ve ruined what should be a great place to work with Massive potential……. Utter incompetence!!!
Dibble for me as plant mgr