Pros
The few employees that are left, great shop floor people to work with. Great engineers who are empathetic with the changing downsizing tide .
Cons
As the company had to and still does try and make bottom line cuts, they would take long and even short term excellent employees and move them into different areas and operations out of their comfort zone and put unrealistic expectations on the employees to learn their new trade or jobs in a very short time. In the process of the poor training, they would move the employee from one operation to another before there is any sense of confidence in the "new" job and then, get written up for not making the unrealistic "training" goal of that operation. The intent(though unspoken but, all the shop floor people new what was/is going on) was to get these "seasoned" employees to quit or with time, fired so they wouldn't get a severance pkg. thus, lower head counts. I also experienced bullying and harassment while working in the new area which made it extremely hard to concentrate on my new work environment. I took it to HR but, out of fear of loosing their own jobs or retribution from the individual doing the bullying, the other employees who saw and heard with their own eyes and ears the harassment refused to comment. After I was let go from my job, interestingly enough, that same person doing the harassment started harassing another person and the bully was finally fired!
