Comments on: Delphi Closes Bathrooms

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:20:36 +0000

Reminds me of when our secretaries retired, both within 3 months of each other. In order to “save” money they didn’t hire new ones for several months (general hiring freeze in place). For several months we had no secretaries and instead we had engineers answering the phones, doing the filing, etc. As I was about the only one willing and able to do such tasks, I was basically a secretary making engineer’s wages for those months. Explain to me how paying twice as much money to an engineer as a secretary to do a secretary’s job saves any money? If Delphi’s engineers don’t have enough to keep them busy, rather than shifting them to maintenance/cleaning, why not fire them and keep the maintenance people for less money?

By: montgomery burns

montgomery burns — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:24:06 +0000

Heh. Well I don’t think closing bathrooms is that big a deal but I love the happy face spin they put on it.

I did some work once for an aerospace company that was having troubles and trying to save money. They decided to cut back and even eliminate health insurance to salaried employees. I thought it would be a downer but it’s actually a good thing to loose your health insurance, you’ll be better off!

By: AKM

AKM — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:03:05 +0000

Wouldn’t firing the MBAs who came up with that ridiculous management talk and spent days in meeting in order to close up bathrooms be fired instead in order to save money?

And as an MBA myself, I know exactly the type of guys who wrote this…

By: ronin

ronin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:02:26 +0000

At an office I know of, they have reduced cleaning expenses. They used to empty deskside wastebaskets nightly. Now it is every second or even third night.

Empty coffee cups, wrappers, trash of all kinds overflows now, littering the areas immediately adjacent to people’s desks.

By: Campisi

Campisi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:34:27 +0000

Not to mention they haven’t even bothered salting the employee parking lot after our ice, sleet, and snow fell. Walking to one’s car is an exercise in not falling on your ass. I’m waiting for them to post the bulletin board with our “weekly chores”. Why did I get a college education again? Oh that’s right, so the only garbage I would have to empty is in my home.

Try living in Seattle. Even with a college degree there’s still ice everywhere. :p

*blames Greg Nichols*

By: arapaima

arapaima — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:08:00 +0000

This sounds like a crappy situation for them.

By: snafu

snafu — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:54:03 +0000

I fail to see why reporting the closing of bathrooms is news worthy. Next will be every other flush. Bring your own TP, use the Shell down the street. Weeeee, were closing bathrooms, let’s call the press, Betty get in touch with our Delphi correspondent, this is huge.

There are some other items that need flushing. Besides what does housekeeping do? They clean the bathrooms, empty garbage then, the rest of the day or night whatever shift they are on they watch tv, text, or play video games. Even housekeeping is not being held accountable for completing their job functions. Perhaps they could get Battenberg and Dawes to come help clean up the mess they left.

By: Rhiadon

Rhiadon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:21:20 +0000

I’d say that closing restrooms isn’t particularly unreasonable if those plants are indeed devoid of people. They however are not devoid of people. We will now have a serious throughput issue.

It’s really just a big “Oh crap!” kind of move, which I guess is sort of appropriate.

By: truthbetold37

truthbetold37 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:55:31 +0000

I work in a big 3 facility that has taken light bulbs out of the ceiling fixtures to save on electricity. Now the furnace probably runs longer!

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:22:04 +0000

cntrlwiz:

Whether or not it’s unreasonable (and I agree with you that closing unneeded bathrooms is a good idea), it’s a sure sign of the cratering of Delphi’s fortunes.

As eamiller said, highly profitable companies don’t have employees wiping down their desks with disinfectant to save money on cleaning.

By: cntrlwiz

cntrlwiz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:14:57 +0000

–Consistent with the closure of Plant 9, Plant 10 and ITC, and in line with
the site population, several restrooms will be closed. Notices will be
placed on the doors of the restrooms that will be closed and the locations
for alternate options will be posted

Why is this unreasonable?? Closing the bathrooms in plants where people aren’t working sounds efficient to me.

By: porschespeed

porschespeed — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:11:33 +0000

Not to mention they haven’t even bothered salting the employee parking lot after our ice, sleet, and snow fell.

“While we applaud your efforts at cost-savings we must ask you to redouble your efforts as we have experienced increased losses in other areas…”

By: eamiller

eamiller — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:53:16 +0000

By: jkross22

jkross22 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:06:53 +0000

And for new employees, we will issue colostomy bags to increase efficiency and further reduce dependence on bathroom maintenance.

By: JK43123

JK43123 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:52:09 +0000

Furthermore, employees are hereby instructed to please urinate on each other to reduce water costs associated with flushing. Thank you.