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Volkswagen Plans 30,000 Job Cuts Worldwide (bbc.com)
Volkswagen has announced plans to cut 30,000 jobs worldwide with about 23,000 of the losses borne in Germany. From a report on BBC:VW, still dealing with the aftermath of the emissions-cheating scandal, aims to rejuvenate its core brand, and develop new electric and self-driving cars. VW says it will create 9,000 jobs as part of investments in new products. The cuts should bring annual savings of $3.92bn by 2020. VW and unions have been hammering out a plan to revive its fortunes since June. Volkswagen chief executive, Matthias Mueller, said it was "the biggest modernisation programme in the history of the group's core brand." "The VW brand needs a real shake-up and that is exactly what the future pact has turned out to be," he added. The car giant -- which employs 610,000 people in 31 countries -- wants to increase the brand's profit margin from 2% to 4% and to do this it will need to improve productivity at its German plants by 25%.
It's always the employees (and their families) who end up suffering for poor management decisions.
Cheat. Get Caught. Pay fines. Lay off Employees.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
I used to own a Passat years ago. Easily the worst car I ever owned, but it was the wife's pick. Thing about it was that all repairs were expensive, thanks to VW's practice of replacing entire modules if there was just a small thing wrong. Like if your indicator LED on your dashboard stopped working, the entire front panel needed to be replaced.
It would be one thing to have that on Mercs, Beamers or Porsches, but I just couldn't justify that on a VW
The company reports 30,000 upcoming, but it'll be much more in the end when the story is forgotten and nobody's watching. The company has implemented a cheating device that reports fake numbers when the press and incestors are watching: they call it the PR Department...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
If you are referring to the Syrians, what exactly in the news suggests that even a good percentage of them are German speaking? German is not one of the common languages in Syria - French is. If you are not referring to the Syrians, who are you referring to?
With the possible exception of Daimler, who merely sold cars with cheating engines bought from Renault-Nissan, I am not aware of a volume car manufacturer that hasn't been caught cheating emissions or is under very serious suspicion of doing so since the VW scandal broke.
VW acknowledged the issue, suspended everyone who could have had something to do with it, started a recall programme and it currently produces the diesel cars with the lowest NOx emissions in practice. None of the other manfucturers have even admitted that they are or were cheating, even though some are right now delivering cars producing more NOx on the road than the VW EA189 even though they are officially meeting Euro 6 on the test bench. Some, like GM, which already had a long history of cheating emissions, have even tried to cover up their cheats.
Support 75th trimester abortion rights (for either parent)!
Make the 18th birthday really special. Today, we can't just kill you on a whim.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I don't care what brand of car you own (exception for exotics needing factory service to retain value).
Never take a car to a dealership for non-warranty work. Never.
WTF were you thinking?
If you know nothing about cars, have a friend that does, find you a reasonably honest shop. You'll note that she/he won't even consider the 'stealerships'. Many dealership mechanics are honest, but the whole place _isn't_. It's not (necessarily) the dealership mechanic stealing from you, it's everybody else there...$100+ labor rate for recent 'wyotech' grads...'retail' parts pricing...you literally can't do worse.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'