Something doesn't smell right about this. Although I was once hired at a factory as a temp with the clear understanding that just about everybody was going to get laid off DEC 31 due to an EPA regulation, and we worked like hell. They gave you a choice, 12 hr per day 6 days a week or 8 hours a day with one weekend off per month. Layoffs were not uncommon so everybody knew how to prepare, and that was a lot of OT. Poor quality was not really an option since everything was checked and if it got rejected it just made double work for you (and everybody else.)This says the change won't take place until 2017. So it's likely they'll continue making units in this plant, and the quality could seriously suffer.
It was a really creamy job. The reason I got hired was because the motors they were making were going to be illegal DEC 31 and everybody wanted one and nobody wanted the new EPA motors. So they installed these really inefficient machines that I ran. Two basically big robots that took about twenty minutes to load and unload, but had cycles of 140 minutes where you did absolutely nothing.
But I agree, if my furnace went out I would just say, "I don't care, anything but a Carrier." (partly due to fear, and partly due to Trumpmania (I hope they are not one and the same.))
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