What else is there to be excited about in the Slough-of-Despond?
OE is the only game in town!

Hahahaha, that sounds like it would work, you mention anything like that and those guys get all excited.

There's plenty of OE here just go hang out by one of the white boards and you're sure to find one of them getting all lathered up about it. If you want them to come find you just leave signs that say "SHINGO award" this way and they'll be there in a hot minute

There is just not enough OE to go round at Lonza!

Are you kidding there's 6 sigma up the wazoo around here. Morale is in the dumps but by god we're doing it efficiently. GO OE!!!

whats happening this week guys? got any 6 sigma left?

Slough needs to cut a lot more people, including Trotsky

So none of the other sites cut people? I thouhgt it was a worldwide reduction?

Its all gone bad, but I am sure that GB can sort things out

Too true, we need more 6Sigma initatives.

Things have really gone downhill since MS left

Slough wasn't affected,doesn't seem like any other sites cut people either. Curious didn't they say it would be a worldwide reduction? just another lie by the leadership I guess, no surprise.

How many went from the slough site, I thought you were untouched?

Things are not going to change here for a long time. Current management will never value the employees here, unless you are on the inside. so you may as well pack your bags.

Don't kid yourself into thinking JM actually cares, he's in this for himself he doesn't care what goes on as long as the numbers are good.

Look at whay happened in November, dead weight or not sacking people prior to the holiday's is rubbish, especially for the sake of making MORE PROFIT. How come we were the only site(s) to have this reduction?

This wasn't business survival, clearly our leaders trumped up this "emergency workforce reduction" to carry out a political agenda, everybody knows it,no one is saying it.

Not everyone let go was dead weight. There's plenty of people in Portsmouth that could have been (and still should be) shown the door.

Lonza is a big machine and they will get away with these business practices regardless of what they say to their audience.

If you can't live with it seek greener pastures like some of us are already doing and stop your complaining.

I agree with that, if it's that bad try to get out, its not good to stay in a bad situation, just because. If enough good people leave then it may force the changes people are saying is needed

I agree with you, but staying in a job where you think everyone else is a slacker isnt good for you or the company you work for, so maybe its time to go, im not being patronizing, in fact quite the opposite, I have been in that situation before and understand your frustration....but unfortunately people rarely change no matter how much you tut and shake yor head in meetings....

That's funny, "If you don't like something, leave",spoken like a true lonza manager.

The real workers are out numbered by the dead weight in this place. If there weren't those of us that actually cared about the job we do this place would have started to sink a few years ago and they would have had to change the upper management.

Any successful recovery we have going forward will be because of the workers, not the decisions made by the current management. About half of them that have stayed too long and are no longer "value added", they should have been outed years ago. They cannot hide forever.

Hopefully JM isn't so far up there that he cannot see what's really going on because MC only cares about himself and SK certainly doesn't care about what goes on.

at the end of the day its a job, if you don't like it find another one, management won't change and im sure alot of the posters on this site have moved on leaving the real workers left to crack on and get the job done, like they have for years now......

what happened is, there's nothing more to say. Lonza stinks but for most of us its a paying job. Yeah the leadership is horrible but what can you do, there will be no change in it

whats happened to this thread? just where is trotsky?

hey trotsky, whats happening these days, fermenting any more unrest?

I thought that MS has gone and taken the bees with him?

Kick the wasp's nest?

Beehive yourself.

I think this place needs a bit of Trotsky spice, you f$$kers have blanded up the discourse for over a year without a poke in sight. Lets kick the wasps nest.

16 members with Unite? Is this true, where did you hear this? Over a year ago I was trying to convince people to join as I saw where the situation was going. If this is true then it's fantastic, and all I can say is continue the fight back. Look at what happened at Visteon recently they occupied their factory and won many times more redundancy pay they would have otherwise. This sort of united action can really make a difference. Ed Perry and Gordon Bates are cowards, show them the iron fist of the general will and they'll go running for the hills.

They have a Currant Management Team?

Wow. Although I have to say they're doing a bloody good job, the muffin I had in the canteen yesterday had a perfect distribution of both sultanas and raisins.

If Lonza employees at Slough combined to join a union and demanded a voice bosses would be less inclined to throw their weight around. The management are only interested in producing spreadsheets to impress their superiors but when are those superiors going to wake up and realise the underlying problems at Slough. An organised union complete with union representative is the way forward. Join Unite, you can do this on line for less than £11 per month. A number of employees are already members, 21 union members that I know of so far, 16 of them with Unite. You may be glad of your membership one day especially the authoritarian stance of our current management team.

Which depts have had cuts? The announcement just said they would not be having pay reviews/rises this year.

No pay rise, what a surprise! Some departments have even had pay cuts, the poor old sods downstairs of course. It is typical of the way Lonza is treating workers at Lonza slough

WTF is WTF?

ROFL is Rolling On the Floor Laughing

Biscuits anyone?

It IS possible, but difficult. I've given up trying both, too much like hard work.

Well there's certainly something dodgy between them two, else how does the MST lead get away with so much?
BTW it is possible to be a pervert AND a racist.

Wow, accuse a guy of being a racist by intimating gay slurs.

There's buggery going on between the head of manufacturing and manufacturing support lead, there must be. The manufacturing support team are in shambles, always running out of what's needed, yet the lead is never pulled up. Apparently he's also a racist.Apparently he only ever has the black staff put through disciplnary, and even told them not to play reggae on the CD player once.He also dislikes all the plant leads who happen to be Asian or black. Incompetant, rude,arrogant, and racist, yet never pulled up by the manufacturing head: they must be buggering each other.

yes SB - they do look uneven

its all a bit of a mystery

Bizarre moderation on this forum.

Biscuit puns are deleted with frightening efficiency, but "Do my boobs look uneven" remains, and vitriolic and puerile attacks on individuals identified by initials are allowed to be posted with gay abandon.

Weird.

WTF is ROFL????

WTF is ROFL????

ROFL at Lonza! Took one Champagne drinking freeloading nutcase from IVGN and thought SHE was worth hiring. U can only think how thick management are...

heading up SHE seems to have become a bit of a poison chalice.

All the operations talent left years ago, willingly or unwillingly.

Apparently, the management wasn't too concerned about them. After all, morons are much smarter than idiots (and there are far more of them)

Once the cohort of morons is culled, they are open to a logarithmic increase of talent within field of imbiciles.

Of course, the upper eschelons will always provide their endless supplies of candidates!

Then of course, there is a steady stream of university graduates looking for thier first jobs...will accept anything.

I'd say that the field of Human Resources at Lonza is wide open and secure for years to come!

Raise a glass to the nay-sayers....we don't need you!

ROFL!

Of course the comments about LONZA get deleted. They all violate the terms of this site.

The number one company which reduces it's workforce to foul-mouthed welfare mothers (men too),within weeks of the glorious hire date.

Well, I can recommend a 4th grader that knows how to cut class and begin to dismantle a toilet down the hall.

He's young, but he has my full backing as an Operator at Lonza Portsmouth.

"Do my boobs look uneven?"

yeah, but where was 'Whu flung Dung'? (aka SB)

No, I think Fong Chong Pik was Malaysian (really nice country, lovely people). "Trotsky" was probably "Lee Kuan Yew"

>>Its the klingons on the starboard bow that are the 'tribble'<<

in non sailor speak do you mean our colleagues from Singapore? The site has been very quiet since they all went home. im beginning to suspect "Trotsky" was actually "Fong Chong Pik"