Suppose painting by numbers with simple colours comes easy to someone with the mental IQ of a 5 yr old.
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Do you have the sales manager running that as well.
Stop worrying.....the Paintshop will keep NOV running at Gateshead.
Bricking the 3rd quarter results. Xmas isn’t going to be so Merry going into 2021.
Shambles you say and yr right.
Shambles is a complete understatement. It’s all talk no action.
Plus we have the gift to worm ourselves out of any situation. The mantra is “supplier issue” did not deliver. Not to spec blah blah. Never oh we Goosed up Cos we are excellent in our class.
We are pants.
New KPI has been introduced. If a worker can park their car we can boost the plant.
It’s a shambles
What an absolute bunch of day dreamers
As a user of the Anson/Gateshead for many years it’s time to move on. Too many late deliveries, no commitment the end user. Poor quality in relation to documentation. Poor 3 coat paint. Always fail. Which costs me and my customers.
We don’t deal direct but from another branch.
The loss is nearly £2.5m pa. to the Anson product. your loss can procure cheaper with confidence in delivery. Our gain to meet contractual obligations.
Not looking good at all. No orders. I honestly think this is it. Closure is only a matter of time.
Any rumours of any more redundancies at Gateshead
The paintshop keeps nov alive in Gateshead.........if it wasn’t for us I’d let you know ❤️❤️😘😘
Nope
Is anyone happy in Gateshead ?
Yeah...... that ‘one of those days’ is currently 10 years plus..... and counting
Ever had one of those days which is murphries law. Where everything goes wrong. Sometimes we make our problems bigger by putting off not doing it right the first time round. Just gets harder and harder
Termites.
The last quarter for Gateshead is going to be brutal.
Closed second quarter 2021 Definitely.
If the paintshop at Gateshead closes.... the whole factory will close... as we are the most productive !!!!!
If you don’t know then you don’t work at Gateshead
Jog on and stop trolling.
Who is chipolata ?
Thought Greengate is bad. You lot really hate each other on another level.
I see your product managers ability to promote the Anson product is nothing short of nothing
Nothing on twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
I take my hat off to you. Sitting there taking the money. Doing the sum total of nothingness no to save us. Oh, ur a Stanley lad sorry yr safe.
The management style and processes used are so out dated
How many years does it take to make a plant efficient.
Eternity it would seem.
Example. Purchasing have no comprehension of anything they are buying. The supplier dictates what delivery we get. We are in a weak position
Engineering can’t go to the toilet without a full specification, but masters of hiding errors. Inability to deviate from a material which is completely unobtainable to a more obtainable one.
Sales continual bull being spinned to make them look busy
Production inability to plan, unable to machine to drawings, machine collisions
Despatch nothing their fault and all’s rosey
QA no idea what’s going on there but from what I see it’s car crash TV
The above is just a few observations
No wonder we’re in a mess
Management always have and always will do whatever they want, and get away with it, and until someone at a higher level finds out and sorts it out we're gonna have to live with it. You only have to look at what the fat useless labourer/ quality manager lololololol has got away with over the years. Sacking someone for smoking outside, when he was outside having a tab himself, just about sums the place up. Doing a fantastic job 👏👏👏 Redundancy payout soon hopefully, its the only thing keeping me there🙏
Looks like the secret hideout is getting filled with stock again then, only to be dumped when the curtain comes down soon🤦♂️
NOV are reducing working capital while we are producing it.
How does that work. When nobody is buying our product.
Dear god! If the empire club has an outbreak you might as well shut Gateshead. Nobody washes their hands after been to the toilet!
That’s why they work for us at NOV, unskilled, uneducated Labourers.
Link to the bbc regards the Empire Club etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-53794351
Buckle up.
And let’s please hope all the id–ts from Stanley don’t keep coming into work after visiting the four bars closed through Covid 19 , cos we all know who drinks in them and will still try to come to work , managers included eh?
D–g test the paintshop.
Paintshop is still the most productive and hardest working by far in the factory.
Apparently they put 3 shift system on to get the the overtime bill down was it 40000 a month just on overtime so now all the so called section leaders ha who are now on shifts and don’t like boo hoo so now there is unlimited overtime because there are still c— ups one after another day in day out what a joke it is
25% OTIF is good. Keep up the bad work.
You would have thought the amount of office staff / Forman. who are on hourly rate of pay working 20-40 hours overtime a week.
We wouldn’t be at 25% OTIF
One major issue is having no supervision on the shop floor. Constantly hiding away in offices all day isn't going to sort out the problems we have.
Nobody in them offices gives a flying ffķk about whats going on, if they did they'd be amongst it, listening and acting upon suggestions, delegating tasks and improvements, basically just doing that little bit extra they should be doing in their roles instead of just turning up, sitting in an office, then doing what they should have been doing throughout the shift in a couple of hours overtime. But the truth is, none of them are capable of it. Inexperienced, uneducated blaggers, the lot of them.
Yes there is hatred, but not why you think, there is hatred because we care and are sick of seeing a great company getting destroyed by useless managers, and more useless people promoted because of where they live or whether they fawn over gullible managers . Open your eyes get on the shop floor and speak to people don’t just listen to your minions who say anything to make you happy, you don’t know what is going on because you are fed lies off your lower managers , it’s not too late, fit managers into roles they have knowledge of, not mates into roles because they are mates and the role is there
Gateshead cannot be Judged on this forum
Most of the comments on here are probably from the ex employees.
They say oh it's great. Glad I left (paid off)
Life after NOV! (Took huge voluntary)
Loads of work out there! (Underpaid)
Ect. Ect. Full of Sh**
Move on
Everyone is shy to post.
There is one thing clear of all of NOV there is so much hatred if you have Manager in yr title and work in Gateshead.
I would not like to be a manager in Hateshead.
The second most hated site second to greengage. At least Gateshead site is in the top for something. Hang your head in shame, and equally hold it high ur in the top two most hated site in the UK. congratulations
There’s a KPI for that. It’s called failure.
Toilet cleaners, labourers getting very shy of publicity , as if no one knows what’s happening , must have a hotline to admin, getting posts deleted that highlight their very short comings and lack of any sort of experience and knowledge
At least they can spell Stanley
I wonder what the secondary schools are like in stanly? Must be nonexistent.