Hodd
4th Nov 2014, 18:10
BBC News - Rolls-Royce to cut 2,600 jobs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29900087)
I joined Rolls-Royce as a graduate trainee in the 1990s. Back then it was a decent employer and you were surrounded by solid experience. Over the years, the levels of project management and what I call indirect fringe positions has increased, and it's now rare to do any engineering at all.
I saw the way Rolls-Royce was heading and left to work there only as a contractor now and then. I see only negatives in being a full-time employee of this company now, and it gives me no satisfaction to see today's news rather proving my point.
The QF32 incident in 2010 was hopefully a one-off event, and to be fair, Rolls-Royce publicly admitted their shortcomings, and I would imagine steps were taken to ensure this never happens again. However, if you look at the published facts, this was caused by a basic low-tech manufacturing error. In a company with so many program managers and so much bureaucracy, it's shocking that this happened.
These latest job cuts are engineering roles mostly in the UK. Profits are of course essential in any business, but where is the social responsibility here? I’ve seen it all before, but I feel for newer graduates and wonder how Rolls-Royce hope to recruit engineering graduates in the future.
I joined Rolls-Royce as a graduate trainee in the 1990s. Back then it was a decent employer and you were surrounded by solid experience. Over the years, the levels of project management and what I call indirect fringe positions has increased, and it's now rare to do any engineering at all.
I saw the way Rolls-Royce was heading and left to work there only as a contractor now and then. I see only negatives in being a full-time employee of this company now, and it gives me no satisfaction to see today's news rather proving my point.
The QF32 incident in 2010 was hopefully a one-off event, and to be fair, Rolls-Royce publicly admitted their shortcomings, and I would imagine steps were taken to ensure this never happens again. However, if you look at the published facts, this was caused by a basic low-tech manufacturing error. In a company with so many program managers and so much bureaucracy, it's shocking that this happened.
These latest job cuts are engineering roles mostly in the UK. Profits are of course essential in any business, but where is the social responsibility here? I’ve seen it all before, but I feel for newer graduates and wonder how Rolls-Royce hope to recruit engineering graduates in the future.