Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

Agree! especially, if you don't have internal connections and protection.

Micron has changed so much since the Appleton days and not necessarily in a positive way. Try to find something else before you are forced to.

Mafia

HR IS THE WORSE AMONGST THE WORSE.. Its all about how you are aligned with senior leaders in that department. If you are not constantly watching your back and s---ing up to the upper leaders you are toast...... I am lucky to have found a way out.... good luck !!

An absolute shell game. WHAT A MESS

Sounds like good people are getting the shaft. There used to be a group like that at Boeing called the "Wichita Mafia". They were told to either move to Seattle with a Engineer title, or be fired. It's hard to envision an entire company that way . . . but not anymore. I'm an investor in Micron. I am curious how the wait for 2017 will affect the stock price in the meantime. That is why I am reading this. I talked to my broker and he said his cousin works at Micron there and makes big bucks. So there is a tie-in there. When a company is "top heavy" it isn't good. Then getting a loan from Wells Fargo . . Not a competitive scene. I'm going to drop my long investment by 50 percent and play a flat position with the other 50 percent shorted. This will double my cash on margin with no gain or loss and I can use the extra for a loan, while I wait to see what happens until 2017 without risk. Then I will sell whichever direction won. Thinking more on this for a half an hour, I can see another tie in where management made moves to assure that their capital gains carryover from the downturn in stock in the recent past- was preserved. This I understand now is due to a known stock sell to the licensee. At least this tells me that more shares are NOT being authorized, that would water down the stock - Executive Management is selling off their stock, so that more share will NOT have to be authorized to be to make more outstanding shares. This group will be the new blood. So the "Yes Men" may soon be sick on the toilet in increasing numbers starting with more "2s". I had this premonition that is telling me not to sell my stock, not matter what happens at the end of October. I get it now. That would be the sell - off due to the uncertainty over the private sale of 5% of the company outstanding shares to its licensee. But the surprise will be the higher price of the shares that were sold to this licensee, bringing up the share price sharply. So on second thought, I will stay long and adjust for margin calls with Puts of short positions. I'll resort to eating Swiss cheese hunks like an apple, chased down with grape fruit juice rather than blow fifty bucks a day eating out to save up for the margin call just before raise in stock price rises. I'm going to hate the next two weeks. But hey, the nice thing about being an investor is going on a much needed diet now and then.

Micron needs to demand more from management personnel. Managers and supervisors in this place need to be held accountable for the amount of money they make compared to what they are often actually required to do. Micron! You are not getting your moneys worth!

We have a supervisor in our department that can't spell. Literally not only spell but doesn't know how to compose a sentence or or a paragraph. However this person has been here for almost thirty years, so it was felt they had to be promoted to supervisor.Not one person thought.... Well if we have to have a person as unqualified as this to be promoted maybe we really don't need that position filled. NO! Stick someone; anyone in that spot, after all Micron has lots of money. Who cares that this supervisors reports have to take direction from a moron. That is the" Micron Way"

Micron! Stop promoting people to supervisor and manager positions just because they have been here since dirt!!!!!! Interview qualified people! If you can't find any then open it up company wide. Restricting the talent pool means the same people keep applying over and over. Get some new blood in here. How can anyone not know that? If all you have to pick from are people that are not the best, then go find the BEST QUALIFIED wherever they may be. There are thousands of people working here! Think outside the box once every ten years, For Gods sake!

This is not just they are too many: Lack of intelligence, uneducated ( Just got promoted based on time of service and internal connections ) and these Managers are decision makers, most of the times wrong

decisions!

Yes. Leaders in micron is too many and is a problem.

Micron may look good for the coming few quarter as the dram price is on the up trend. But If the company structure remain unchanged, it will still face difficulties, which the company is very much dependent on demand and supply cycle in the market.

R&D is important. Working and direct contribute staff is important.

In micron, Management staff is plenty, VPs, directors, assistant directors, managers, section managers, supervisors and etc, people in these catogory can count in hundreds. Some of them even have only few staffs under them. It's just a waste of resources, and extra cost is added.

Some of them don't even contribute but taking high pay. And worse off, creating office politics.....causing unnecessary problem. This group of people are the one to be sent to The chopping board instead of working staff like Operators, Technicians, Engineers and etc when come to lay off exercise.

With so many management staff, can they really turn around the situation when time is bad?????????

What effect does the next earnings announcement have on a possible raise?

WOW!

What does the next earnings report mean for us?

Five managers in an area of thirty people? It's not unheard of but it does seem excessive. The problem is if you take this same type of situation and multiply it company wide where it may exist ,you are talking lots of money. There was a time in this company where upper management would monitor these type of situations and work to be much more efficient and wasteful, Now the attitude is "If there going to pay me I will take the money" Where is the integrity and the concern for doing the best that you can do for the company? If management has this attitude what do they expect from everyone else? How can a person maintain a positive attitude when you see these guys screwing the company?

People are fleeing pre next round. Stock is tanking overnight. Be interesting next few months.

Earnings out and another loss! Yes another LOSS!! Watch the spin now of how we didnt loss as much as predicted, blah blah blah...

Its a joke this place is a mess and has crappy leaders. Disfucntional and decisions are made to keep the yes men and those who dont push back.

Capping 7.5 % not enough. More news to come to make it look good enough on paper to buy in 2017.

High school degree managing Engineers with BA, Masters, and Phd's is a Perfect Example of the basic Micron philosophy...... If you can survive the yearly layoff sooner or later you will automatically be promoted. Wow! What a way to pick leadership!

My manager does not have education and knowledge just finished high-school and he manages engineers with BS, MS and PhD degrees. The only thing he knows is to rely on other knowledge and advices, so you can understand what is going on while working with him and with the group...Every employee tries to do things as his own interest and needs. It's bad real bad!!

I work in a small department that has about thirty people or so. A couple of people left in this last round of layoffs. Out of this number we have five managers. Five! They all have over twenty-five years a least and a couple more of their staff are up there too.They have no more work to justify their position than the man on the moon. There is no transfer of these guys to other spots or shifts or NEVER moved to areas that could really need their experience. Instead they come in and ride the gravy train day after day. Year after year. When in meeting with them they are the most disinterested group of "leadership" you have ever seen. Same old tired attitude same old ideas. They have a good thing going for them and don't want anyone rocking the boat. They are here for the paycheck. That's it! This is leadership? What in the hell has happened to this company? I have been here and have worked in several different areas over thirteen years . This is as bad as I have seen it. When will this change?

There is no system in place to review and remove bad supervisors and managers. Micron desperately needs to implement an employee survey to review supervisors/managers. The worst manager I've ever worked for was at Micron. He would consistently demean and yell at his employees and do it in front of others. No professionalism whatsoever. No one likes him and everyone knows he's a terrible Manager and yet he's still there. He likely has the highest turnover of any manager at Micron. It's Unbelievable.

I feel sorry for the average manufacturing worker at Micron. You are being so taken advantage of. Your job is going to disappear. The problem is going to be watching things change around you steadily until this place of business is unrecognizable while the Managers and [kept in the dark] Supervisors keep reassuring us everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about. Yeah? Maybe you don't.

Correct!!! Micron has hired/promoted uneducated, very low intelligence Supervisors and Managers. These employees do not how to work and the worst thing it they promote management stuff like them.

Skill people in micron still need to follow direction and instructions from TOP people. These TOP people themselves do not know what they are doing. Do the skill people know what to do next????

We all need to be very concerned about how a lot of things are being run around here. There are a lot of very skilled people, very skilled ,that are scratching their heads.

I have been in several meetings where things have been proposed that are utterly ridiculous and not possible to achieve. The people that actually work hands on know it won't work, yet no one feels that they can express an opinion that opposes the manager or supervisor. That's one reason why these projects get cancelled half way through the process. Too many bosses making decisions that are out of the loop. They are in charge but they don't know half of what everyone does. They don't do the work. How many times have you heard that adding this or changing that will "actually improve the process". Just like Obama saying"your health care costs will actually go down" What a bunch of crap!

Too many policies makers in micron. Politics among TOP management will make lower people harder to work. Don't even talk about innovation. Wait to see how it end.......

Innovation at Micron is dead. This is because management has created a culture of 'yes men'. Those who oppose managements ideas and or decisions are the first to be laid off. Our department made some decisions that made no sense. When I voiced opposition, I was told to "just do what your told to do". I've been in meetings where everyone just looks down and doesn't voice any concern even though we all know its a bad idea or can't realistically be accomplished. Therefore, Micron's future innovation will only come from acquisitions.

Micron is in desperate need of innovative thinkers who are in a position of making the hard decisions that need to be made. We are constantly being thwarted by the same same old thinking and second guessing that has taken place here for many years. When will this change?

The slower you are the more likely there will be a reduction or another reduction in your area. Micron lays off all of the time so it's just a matter of time before that happens where you are working. Why don't you try to move to another area?

Boise is dead slow in my area. Dead slow!

exactlt what site and areas are that slow?

When is Micron going to start laying off the Japs? Aren't they allowed to now?

Did I miss something? I haven't been on here since the last layoff what happened?

When do we get a raise? When do we get our IPP?

What is the company line on profitability? When does Micron expect to be profitable again?

Not until micron makes money. Sometime in 2017 maybe

Are there any projects in the works that will make us busy again? Anyone?

the whole place is a house of cards