On Janesville City Council to consider $227,500 loan to Grainger
Posted on April 10 at 12:19 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
1924 you are exactly right. Every year they used to give the employees a folder with how much they actually "make" when you include PTO, profit sharing, and insurance.
Which may be true, but profit sharing doesn't help you pay the bills.
On Janesville City Council to consider $227,500 loan to Grainger
Posted on April 10 at 12:13 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Once again, none of these jobs are in the warehouse. The warehouse doesn't start out anywhere near $14/hr. Last I check, starting wage was still $10/hr. If Lab is adding without subtraction, then why are there so many temporary workers currently in the warehouse, in departments where there were never temps before. Why haven't they replace any of the workers that left from early retirement/voluntary separation/transfer? They will continue to deplete the warehouse, like so many have predicted before, and expand the CSR and Credit Department. That huge building will be nothing more than a call center and a drop ship warehouse. Mark my words. So basically they are giving them 200,000 to get rid of warehouse employees.
On W.W. Grainger looking to grow in Janesville
Posted on March 16 at 3:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Oh and LabWorker, I'm agreeing with you. I've also heard the rumors that Lab will be absorbed by the new Chicago DC. The people that are still there know the job market sucks and will stay till the bitter end, the least they could do is be honest. Especially with the Warehouse people, but that is asking a lot. My g/f has worked there for about 6 years, I know she is very nervous.
On W.W. Grainger looking to grow in Janesville
Posted on March 16 at 3:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I know that. I should've clarified my statement about the 100+ jobs. How many people form Janesville (Current Lab Safety Employees included) will get those jobs. I'm guessing most will be transfers from Lake Forest.
On W.W. Grainger looking to grow in Janesville
Posted on March 16 at 6 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
actually it states that 60% is still shipped out of janesville, which is a nice way of saying, they lost 40% of their orders to SC and Cali. If they are building a million sq. ft. building in Illinois, it doesn't make much sense to have two warehouses so close together, does it??
On W.W. Grainger looking to grow in Janesville
Posted on March 15 at 5:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I'm guessing moving the credit department to Janesville (aka bringing 100+ jobs to janesville) won't include hiring outside the company.
On W.W. Grainger looking to grow in Janesville
Posted on March 15 at 4:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Obviously this article is about the "other" world at Lab Safety, the fourth floor, the office.
Anybody that works(worked) at Lab Safety knows that there are two worlds that are vastly different. The way the office is treated vs. the way the warehouse is treated is vastly different. Talk arbitrarily to someone that works upstairs and then talk to someone that works in the warehouse about the company and you will think they work for two different companies.
This is not Grainger's fault, this happened long before Grainger took the reins. And if they hadn't who knows where Lab would be now. We should feel lucky that they did or else Janesville would have 800 more employees in the unemployment line. The ego of the people in charge, unqualified promotions, and the general dead weight throughout the company is what lead to this.
I just wonder when the other shoe will drop. Once the Million sq. ft. warehouse in Illinois opens I just can't see much use for Janesville. The warehouse part of it at least. I imagine the bright and sunny world of Lab will always be there. And it should. THAT company is great to work for.
Just keep thinking "all us well" and see how that works for you.
Posted on September 7 at 7:35 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Signs that might be omens say I'm going, going
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
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On Janesville City Council to consider $227,500 loan to Grainger
Posted on April 12 at 6:13 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Trust me, the employees hated LSS long before Grainger took over.
A town with money is like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one is sure how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it~L. Langley