Making the news today....

[breffni]

Another nail in the coffin of British engineering. Read an interesting book recently by Tom Brown regarding engineering. Quite a difference in how engineering in Germany is viewed and developed compared to the UK. 

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, breffni said:

Another nail in the coffin of British engineering. Read an interesting book recently by Tom Brown regarding engineering. Quite a difference in how engineering in Germany is viewed and developed compared to the UK. 

You will set Big J off .....?

[monkeybusiness]

2 hours ago, Khriss said:

One of the key matters of this C19 business,  pretty sure these jobs will not return to UK neither sadly. Very bad indicator.   K

 

 

Rolls-Royce to cut 9,000 jobs amid virus crisis

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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The aircraft engine maker is axing nearly a fifth of its workforce with the aviation sector in turmoil.

 

The thing that surprises me the most about this is that Rolls Royce employs 50000 people building aircraft engines!!! How many engines are they building?!

[Khriss]

@monkeybusiness it's all the bits n bobs that connects engines to yr aircraft, not just Old Jeff with his saffire torch brazing tine after tine on the turbofans  ?  @breffni cos engineering is perceived as a blue collar dirty working class thing in UK,  in spite of our majestic iron working around the World. If yr some squeeky money spinner in City, you get the gongs. K

[monkeybusiness]

5 minutes ago, Khriss said:

@monkeybusiness it's all the bits n bobs that connects engines to yr aircraft, not just Old Jeff with his saffire torch brazing tine after tine on the turbofans  ?  @breffni cos engineering is perceived as a blue collar dirty working class thing in UK,  in spite of our majestic iron working around the World. If yr some squeeky money spinner in City, you get the gongs. K

I understand that - it goes a lot further than 50000 employees though as there will be many many more employed in the supply chain. It’s still an incredible number for one manufacturer though imo.

[Khriss]

Just been on R4 news now -  RR is not looking at furlough ing staff for as long as it takes to start selling engines again  ?  an doesn't think the demand will suit current work staff   levels .  K

[trigger_andy]

The thing that surprises me the most about this is that Rolls Royce employs 50000 people building aircraft engines!!! How many engines are they building?!

Just passing me right now. [emoji16]

[monkeybusiness]

3 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

 

Just passing me right now.

 

Ace looking ship!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Khriss said:

@monkeybusiness it's all the bits n bobs that connects engines to yr aircraft, not just Old Jeff with his saffire torch brazing tine after tine on the turbofans  ?  @breffni cos engineering is perceived as a blue collar dirty working class thing in UK,  in spite of our majestic iron working around the World. If yr some squeeky money spinner in City, you get the gongs. K

I wonder if you logged on for the AA Arb QT on Monday K?

 

Its a bit of a tangent but very akin to the point you raise above about ‘perceptions’ of certain trades. 
 

The Dorris from the ICF, with all her current management speak - going out of her way to say words like ‘diversity’, ‘inclusivity’, ‘tolerance’ & ‘respect’ exposed herself as a pompous, irrelevant, hypocritical ass (which I thought was hilarious since the topic of the discussion was how to raise the profile of the Arb industry) when, despite all her best attempts to tick the management speak boxes, she actually exposed her true sentiments with statements like “stamp out white van brigade”, her obvious disdain for those that had “come up from the tools” and her description of those at the operational end of the business as “emerging from the woods covered in sawdust and scruffy clothes.”

 

When you add to that her body language and eye movements during certain parts of the discussion it became very clear that she’d probably never actually seen the inside of a working van, wouldn’t know how to mix 2 stroke and wouldn’t know one end of a saw from the other....

 

If it wasn’t worth watching for much else, it’d be worth it for her performance alone....

 

Now, where’s that ICF membership subscription form.....

 

Theres a slight chill and I think I’ll light the fire...

 

 

[Khriss]

@kevinjohnsonmbe am saddened I missed that - and am passionate abt how our industry is perceived. It is a highly technical and demanding profession which is a key provider for the Urban and Wildlife component of our society. Obvs fly tipping cunts and Johnny big bollocks giving it the ' we will knock that out missus - 400 knicker' need putting up against a wall.....

 

Sounds like Herself wasn't helpful   ?  K