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**George Cleveland** · February 15th, 2007, 12:52 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:45:22 -0600, wrote:

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:58:39 -0600, George Cleveland
wrote:

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:04:45 -0600, wrote:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:48:18 -0600, George Cleveland
wrote:

After 18 years of service to my company they've informed me and 120 of
my compatriots that our services will no longer be required after June
or there abouts. So... my plans to fish with Jeff and any other North
Calahackians we could rope into it in October are squished. WTF, I
probably would have been skewered by a wild boar or bitten by a coral
snake.

Sorry to hear that. It wouldn't seem, given the above to be too
personal - what do you do?

TC,
R

I'm going to be busy. I'm chief steward for the Union. Since we are in
a multi-city local and the president lives 75 miles away I'm going to
be point man for the affected workers when it comes to dealings with
them and the state, federal and company bureaucracies. We qualify
under the Fed and State Mass Layoffs acts and are supposedly going to
have everyone from the U.S. Department of Labor to the local food
pantries meeting with us.

I'm a healthy 54 year old. I'm in much better shape than the two guys
in my department who are my age and have recently gotten out from
under the knife with heart surgery. They're screwed. I'll get by.
There may or may not be a severance package, we'll see how our
meetings with management turnout. And if they hit their target date of
the end of June I'll be very surprised. I wouldn't be surprised
(although I can't count on it) if I'm still there in September. But by
any calculation a trip to North Carolina in October is out of the
question now.

g.c.

Um, George, while I'm glad to hear that you apparently aren't taking
this lying down, you didn't actually mention what you do...G

TC,
R

Printer. Web Flexographic machines. Consumer products. They were the
thing of the future 15 years ago, with lithographic being old news.
Unfortunately someone forgot to tell that to the lithographic press
makers and in the last 5 years or so they've revolutionized the
printing world. Fast run speeds and incredibly fast set up times (that
used to be their downfall). There are new flexo presses out there that
are great too but the company doesn't want to spend the cash to put
them in. Most of their business is in the SE and most of their capital
improvements have been put into those plants. We make a lot of money
for them, approximately $100,000 *profit* per worker but they feel
they can make even more running our jobs in other plants. The division
is very profitable but the corporation as a whole is pitiful. Major
losses every year. Our CEOs are well paid though, so thats something.

g.c.