Well Its finally happened! I'm sure everyone remembers those 254 employees that Jeld-wen of Hawkins laid off way back in Feb. We received our letters of termination. It was only a matter of time. The union is trying to fight it because there are people still working there that took our places that shouldn't be there. There was this one girl who started approx. 4 months before the layoffs began.......and wouldn't you know it.....She's still there. Why you might ask? you should see her and you would know. Thin, (must weigh about 110 soaking wet) Pretty, likes to party with "The Boys". Yeah, well some of us who have worked there anywhere from 10-30 years are now terminated! I guess the union wants to see all evaluation records for the last 4 years. They want to compare them and see if we were all evaluated on the same bases, (Fairly that is). Well as anyone who works at a Jeld-wen company knows, They keep who they want to keep evaluations mean nothing! We'll see. For one thing I know personally that the evaluations were not done the last 4 years like they were suppose to be anyhow. We can all see where this is going to lead. Jeld-wen is gong to drag their feet in producing the evaluations. It's going to take well over a year, in the hopes that by that time everyone will forget about what they have done to us and we will be left for dead just like anything else Jeld-wen screws up on. Well I guess for them its like Burger King every day, you know..... THEY CAN HAVE IT THEIR WAY! and that's how it is gonna end up in the end. LITTLE MAN LOSES AGAIN!

Jeld-Wen is still struggling with the economic downturn. One day you would be working in a team on meeting a certain deadline, the next day you hear that you are no more.

The recession has hit the industry hard and even the Jeld-Wen is striving to recover faster than competitors, it's still going to be a while before things are back to normal.

Just like Dick Cheney I think I've had a few mini heart attacks.I've been laid off a long time and have not found a job.I'm very streesed out.I may lose everything i worked so hard for.The layoff was unfair,i got more to lose than some high school graduate with just a few weeks on the job.

According to the telonu layoff tracker the 274 people on the so called 6 month layoff recall were terminated in May.I think Jeld Wen management should get off the dope and get back to Earth to reality.It use to be they had temporary layoffs so the their working employees could get a 40 hour paycheck.Now they have temporary layoffs and they work their employees into the ground so they can get them out on a 32 hour paycheck.The big shots on the top want to be making the big money ,even during
the bad times.They don't share the pain with their employees.They have a big sense of entitlement like the greedy b*stards on wallstreet ,like Goldman Sachs.Wallstreet is rallying like the good times are coming back.They are not,it's going to get a worse.Soon wallstreet is going to have to take a big cut in their standard of living like the working middle class poor.Get your money out of stocks,the second phase of the crash is coming.

There is a manager at the at Jeld Wen that got kicked out of a department because he could'nt get a decent number of windows out.He always seemed to have this blank look on his face as he scratched his beard , trying to figure out how to get production out faster.They put him in a different department because he was not motivated enough to get a decent amount of windows out.
Now you see him walking around the factory.He spends more time in other departments than his own.When the factory went to one shift he was kept on second shift,even though there was little production on that shift.Management on second shift ddid'nt lose their jobs like the employees.
.They terminate the employees,but keep management,even if you have bad breath!You can smell foul breath from 10 feet away!

How can you trust a company like Jeld Wen that left their employees on recall in limbo for 9 months and not one employee got called back.I predict all the window & door factories will suffer even worse sales in 2010.I predict some of those suckasses will get mando layoff at Jeld Wen.
The people running the show are pretty spineless.They don't have enough balls to tell there employees they have no hope at all of ever getting their job back.Many employees are angry at Jeld Wen.They have price increases, when at the same time commodity prices like wood and metals went down.I predict Jeld Wen will get rid of their golf tounaments,just like Goldman Sacks decided to decrease their bonuses.