Rumour Mill Today!

[Michael Alexander]

I heard from two sources today, that the mine intends to recruit quite a substantial number of people for all the various projects and to fill in a few vacancy, I heard that this number might be quite large....
Sources: 2 housewifes and one Unionist (Reliability factor: 33%)

Have you heard any rumblings?

[Michael Alexander]

On the other hand , two other sources stated today at the Dairy Fridge, that in all likelyhood, it was nonsense as the mine still had a surplus workforce.......

[Andrew Darné]

We've been waiting for some time now to hear about former FTC's that worked for us that we wanted back to fill vacancies in our team, but that's been put on hold for now.
Apparently there are some of E-Bay's work force that have to be redeployed in the rest of the mine while they are down for some time...
Interesting times... If these guys fall into our team... means back to teaching them the job that took us over a year to get right with the FTC's we had. Explains why we want them back, more productive in times of "double the work half the workforce"...!!!

[Michael Alexander]

A friend of mine, in the more senior rankings of the company was bitching to me yesterday, how he now had to do the work of 3 employees for the same salary,  not even a bonus or a thank you........

He is very depressed and is trying to find alternative work......

[John Creedy]

With the same company Mike???

[Michael Alexander]

Nope , out of the company...... funny thing, without mentioning any names in here, John, you actually know this chap.....

[Paul Alexander]

Spoiled bunch that we are, methinks certain people just got too comfortable when we were so heavily overstaffed and now that they are expected to actually do a full days work its become a problem for them. Without fail every single one of my guys who have gone out to do 'equivilent' work in the real world have all complained about how much more they have to do out there and about how you work all day every day. Its time to earn your keep people, now that the company has streamline the slackers have nowhere to hide and are being show up!!!!

[SandyB]

True  words Paul .. in my days on the mines we had many slackers ..  had so much time on their hands that they would  assemble their weekend work project  during the week to  the extent  that  it ony required  2 hours work  on the sunday and be paid for the   8 hrs worth at  double time ..so  they could idle  all fine  and  dandy  if they could apply the clever planning  to their week work as well .. think of how much money would not have been wasted ,,,
On the inverse  i just had a sesion  with our factory manager today .. told him that when our  workshop manager comes back from  sick leave to instruct him to  hire another fitter ... cos  he   got " clever" and pared his staff down to look good .. but its now to our detriment ... one on leave .. one  sick .. him now sick and  we hobbled .. sorry to say it , but whenI worked on 4 plant .. our  bonus and increase was determined by how much   you  decreased  your section  breakdown rate ...  IOW  you had to be continually  doing preventative  maintenance looking for problem areas  .. I just recently  got  rodgered with a  R 56000 rand bill compliments  of my  colleague   who  seemed to think that  DC and AC commutator motors only require  3 - 4 monthly inspections whereas my opinion was  every month .. well the  chickens all came home  to roost .. only prob is I'm saddled with  the bill .. still  puushing to get it  put on his  bill   serve him right ..My comment  to my  boss was ..  " one cannot  maintain  enough .. we have  expensive machinery  and  any  failure costs not only in  repair cost but producive time loss .. when  is  somebody  going to  switch on the lights ??

[Michael Alexander]

The gossip on the floor today... is that the demand for diamonds has picked up, but the mine is battling to produce.... the stuff.......

[Andrew Darné]

I wonder why...?

[Skinny]

We can't sell what we are producing. There is alot of stock but not alot of buyers and the strength of the dollar is also against us. Lets hope it will pick up shortly

[Michael Alexander]

Heard the Russians were flooding the market with good quality stones......

[Alfred Boehme]

And the Aussies they grow them

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

We were told that demand for diamonds in China and India was good and we need to get our production up.
Wonder whats going on....... 

[Sean]

Thats a good point that Alfred raised, are the manufactured diamonds having an impact on the market?