by Broman62 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 7:04 pm
I’d like to share my good fortunes with you that just came my way last week and I’m soooooo freakin’ happy...BUT a little RANT first and if Harry deems this inappropriate he can take care of it...So you’ve all heard about Mary Barra(CEO of GM) and her 12 A$$ MONKEY APOSTLES deciding to put 5 GM plants in the non-allocated state(meaning they are gonna eventually shut them completely down, never to be opened again...they are outdated and don’t fit into their future investments!!!). They decided not to make gas powered cars anymore and go with the electric cars for the future and rely on the HUGE trucks and SUV’s to make their BILLIONS!!
Now, I work at the Lordstown, Ohio complex as a skilled tradesman and we just finished up making the Cruze and it was a great little car and a great “entry level” car to lure first time buyers and those on lower or fixed incomes, just like every other automotive manufacturer has in their lineup...NOW they have nothing like this in their lineup and it is FREAKIN’ SCARY TO THINK WHO HAS MADE THIS DECISION AND WHY!?!? Unless these new electric cars are self charging, this is gonna be a total failure...IMHO!! The earth and the 7 continents...especially the USA’s (which I love dearly) infrastructure and electrical grid are so horrible and deplorable right now that I cannot see it supporting plug in electric cars...the VOLT was a prime failure example of this as I/we saw it first hand!!! So anyway, to me and a lot of the other GM workers affected by this just don’t understand their thought process but have to live with it BECAUSE THEY ARE FREAKING MONEY HUNGRY IDIOTS...JMHO!!!
Disclaimer: remember this is a RANT and when you RANT you may say things that aren’t always accurate or the whole picture but it sure feels good to get it off your chest!! The writer of the above will not argue with or get into any discussion of said statements...ain’t worth my time because I’m TOO HAPPY!! :D :D :D
So anyway, when this all came down in November it was a total and complete utter shock to everyone involved (union and management)...I never saw such dread and panic on management’s face when this announcement came out and to the workers at my plant(you know you’ve seen this hundreds of thousands of times on TV and think...“all that’s a shame but it will never happen to me!!”...well let me tell ya PAL or GAL that when it hits home and you, it’s crushing...the fear of the unknown and uncertainty!!! So for me at 56 years old and 23 years of GM time and have gone thru 2 divorces which was nothing like this, this caused me to go into a panic mode and start having anxiety attack’s...what am I gonna do, what about my family, my house, where am I gonna get a job next etc...!?!?! And for me on top of this, right after the announcement, my oldest best pupper friend Samson became ill real fast with the cancer and we had to put him down and that was CRUSHING!! Right before we had to put him down I got so bad I had to get on medication...ME...56 years old and I had never took anything more than a vitamin or aspirin...to help get my CHIT back to normalcy and believe me when I tell you...IT’S A MAGICAL WONDER PILL that has gotten me this far with taking all my anxieties and worries away...it has taken me now to “I DON’T GIVE A CHIT AND IT IS WHAT IT IS!!! And I’m proud that I made the decision (with help and encouragement from friends and family) to get on with it and move on!!! I got out of my funk awhile back that I was in and got back into my regular life things and back into doing what I love and that is slotcars and other passions I have(which ain’t to far out of the realm of slotcars :D :D :D )
So, after all this came down, everyone affected( union wise) had/has been giving an opportunity to put in for transfers now and down the road to other plants and/or I believe there will be some kind of buyout for all the OLD FARTS that they want to get rid of and believe me their are a ton of them(I haven’t reached the OLD FART STATUS quite yet :D :D ) but getting closer and if they don’t take the buyout they will force them and anyone else that hasn’t put in for a transfer to other plants and they will not like that!! Management was offered buyouts and transfers and the ones they decided to keep on, but the other ones were giving their walking papers and it was “see ya” and that just sucked!!
So to my GOOD FORTUNES...after this came down they started posting places you could transfer to and for me I wanted to stay in Ohio and so I only put in for a Parma and Toledo plant...Parma an hour away and Toledo 2 1/2 hours away!! All us northerners FEARS were we would get forced to plants in Texas or Missouri or Tennessee :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :o :o !! Right away they started accepting people at these other places(remember they are taking from a pool of 5 plants for either production or skilled trades) and at first people where flying out the door on transfers and then it slowed down and for me I started to think I was gonna end up out of state, far away from home, and it just wasn’t what I wanted so I drug my feet for awhile as other offers came thru and higher seniority or even lower seniority people were jumping on these offers to stay employed with GM!!!
SO THIS PAST THURSDAY WHEN I GOT HOME AND OPENED UP MY IPAD, THERE WAS A JOB OFFER WAITING FOR ME AND IT WAS FOR TOLEDO...now these MAGICAL PILLS have taken all my emotions away since I started on them but that was the first time I cried since my bestest buddy Samson left us...I was so shocked that I got the opportunity to stay in Ohio and only be 2 1/2 hours away from home and finish out my time with GM...I only have 30 months to go to reach GM’s magical 85 points system to retire and get the #$&# out of there!! So on Sunday I moved my 2nd ex-wife back into my house to watch over it during the week while I’m gone and to take care of our other pupper we still have/share and it worked out good cause her apartment lease was up at the end of this month and they were raising her rent $100!! It’s alittle weird right now and we are just helping each other out(I went thru 2 divorces but in both of them I went above and beyond my obligations to help both of them) but I am gonna have to find a place to stay up that way BUT, being only 2 1/2 hours away I will be home every weekend I can so I will still be able to take care of my home and the other things I was so worried about losing out on!!! I report Tuesday, April 23rd...HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY :banana-dance: :banana-dance: :banana-dance: :banana-dance: :banana-dance: !! Thanks for reading if you got this far!! :D :D
My slotcaring will be non existent until I get settled in but I will always be here and moving forward!!