Company is no longer genuinely interested in manufacturing components but instead wants to be an assembly and a tech company. CAT has no allegiance to long term employees, they are not loyal. Company laid off hundreds of twenty plus year employees in December of 2016 only to hire some of them back in early 2017, this time they did not have retirement benefits...
Once your position is targeted for layoffs, management does very little to help you retain your career by assisting you with employment in other departments throughout the Caterpillar organization.
Why do they have to pamper Millennials when older folks get nothing. Millennials get more vacation from the get go, but what about us old timers?