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January 4, 2007
Burning Question
What affected your job most in 2006?
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36 CommentsIn 2006, my job was most affected by problems in, and failure of, other people's relationships.
January 4, 2007 2:59 PMWhat affected my job was the cost of materials to customers. Some were no longer able to stay a float and had to close their business.
January 4, 2007 3:13 PMA reduction in personnel thru retirement and seeking better positions outside the company has greatly affected my job. I have been given added resonibilities without any more resources to fulfill them.
January 4, 2007 3:16 PMMy job was affected by the lack of qualified personnel to assist me in my field of metallurgy and welding technology. I am a certified welding inspector, certified welding educator and a welding technician. In addition to these tasks, I teach metallurgy and nondestructive testing at WVU at the Parkersburg Campus. I would like to retire, but there seems to be no one interested in learning the necessary skills for this vocation.
January 4, 2007 3:17 PMIn 2006, my job was most affected by not being able to find qualified personnel to fill positions.
January 4, 2007 4:02 PMAs a sales guy working with OEMs and job shops across the country: Outsourcing and raw material costs seem to have had the darkest effects.
However, I'm constantly amazed at how nimble and resourceful an American engineer/machinist can be; when he has to.
January 4, 2007 4:05 PMMandated outsourcing to (unqualified) suppliers unable to deliver quality components on-time, all in an effort to support double-digit corporate (stockholder) profit expectations.
January 4, 2007 5:00 PMRising cost and shortage of materials. Plus the fact work was so good we had a hard time getting contractors to bid projects
January 4, 2007 5:15 PMI retired in July from my employer of 35.5 years. I have changed from Purchasing/Finance for my employer to Financial Consultant/Investment Consultant to others as well as myself.
January 4, 2007 5:43 PMWithout question, the single item that affected myself and our entire industry the most was the copper market.
January 4, 2007 7:12 PMBy the poorly timed and unnessary EPA requirements for diesel emissions and low sulfur fuels. This may have caused one of the major engine OEMs to withdraw from the over the road market. It will also hit us all in the pocketbook. Remember: if you have it, a truck brought it.
January 4, 2007 8:12 PMThe downturn in the automotive industry changed my life. After being laid off, I am now directing my new industrial consulting businees. Hopefully, this is the best thing that could have happened to me. With 17 years of Tool and Die and Engineering knowledge, I have a feeling my services will be needed when things ramp up again and all the part suppliers have let their senior people go. OK now, everyone go and buy a new car!
January 4, 2007 9:10 PMWhat most affected the hvac/engineering business was the fact of: "lack / slowdown in govertment bids"
Therefore the letting go of key personnel....
Being a small (and I mean small) business owner, our biggest problem since day one, and especially this past year, has been Collections. Deadbeats, slow pay, excuses, lies (yep, I'm sore about it!)
January 5, 2007 12:50 AMAs I am the Agent/Representative for a US Company, what affected me most was the closure of the US factory and relocation to China. The transition did cause some teething problem as China factory's personnel had to grapple with the production of new products and there were initial product quality issues that had to be resolved. Product sampling and testing did take a long time due to the initial quality inconsistency. But once this teething problem is resolved, the big potential in the Asian market, in particular in China itself, is worth all the troubles.
January 5, 2007 2:26 AMCost of living went up 34% in my living area -- FOX VALLEY.
January 5, 2007 9:34 AMAmerica feeds the world, then companies leave and sell their products back to us. They keep doing this. Who will be able to buy these products?
January 5, 2007 1:57 PMDuring 2006, I was employed by a company where half of senior management irresponsibly eroded the whole company reputation by mistreating clients, suppliers, selectively paying staff, and shuffling money suspiciously among two owned companies on the side. Since a lawyer indicated these issues were mainly breeches of corporate law, and other management couldn't afford lawyers to force disclosure of issues in supreme court, dishonest people seem to be getting away with this.
The unethical behavior and its repercussions over which I had no control led me to take steps to launch my own business.
January 7, 2007 10:46 PM
