Has your office/company laid people off? PART 3

[sputnik]

Originally posted by birdman86


I've got two buddies from separate offices that got laid off yesterday. One of them was told 500 people going, the other was told everybody hired since August 2014 or something like that.

Rumors on Reddit are as high as 1000-1200.

[haggis88]

Originally posted by birdman86


I've got two buddies from separate offices that got laid off yesterday. One of them was told 500 people going, the other was told everybody hired since August 2014 or something like that.

I'm off to an ATCO Gas site next week, hopefully all of those guys got kept on, they were excellent guys to work for


Some good news for Canada, GE are bringing the Waukesha plant here....

https://www.genewsroom.com/press-rel...-move-products

I get the feeling it will go to the GTA, or thereabouts....but commuting distance to Calgary would be nice

I know Enerflex/GasDriveGlobal has shops in Calgary, and field locations in QC, and BC for doing the Waukesha and Jenbacher lines...so would GE want to come to Calgary to directly compete with EFX?

I know our company (fully owned GE subsidiary) just added Waukesha and Jenbacher field services into our umbrella, so it makes me wonder what GE's overall plan for their Gas engines is in Canada

[R154]

horbeiger picked up waukesha cause enerflex c/o gasdrive got their collective dick slapped form ge for being assholes to their dealers.

Companies got pissed off that enerflex got the packing end as well as the sale gen. Even gas compression companies like bidell started to waiver. They were making sales and fucking people over by giving their projects preference for lead time and price differential. So much so that even marathon (gen ends) made a fuss about supplying. Cummins told them to suck a dick and held their feet to the fire, therefore stamford isnt playing ball.

Since then they (enerflex) have lost waukesha.

PS: Jenbacher used to be retailed exclusively through waterous (WAJAX) but is now a distinct line.
Jenbacher is specifically used for powerplants. GE holds the exclusivety for all engineering and installation as well as maintenance. They will NEVER sell the rights to Jenbacher.

Jenbacker is only competitive in moderate size power plans, its not used for standby /small o&g prime.

CHP is becoming a big concept among people using gas. Waukesha doesnt currently produce an as built line with scrubbers and in-house heat exchangers. Players like Liebherr and Guascor are shoving their way in.

Guascor through kohler is coming online in 2016 and Shindoa is producing cheeeeeap gas engines.

Even Wei-chai is blasting the market with nat-gas engines.

[Mibz]

Originally posted by R154
horbeiger picked up waukesha cause enerflex c/o gasdrive got their collective dick slapped form ge for being assholes to their dealers.

Companies got pissed off that enerflex got the packing end as well as the sale gen. Even gas compression companies like bidell started to waiver. They were making sales and fucking people over by giving their projects preference for lead time and price differential. So much so that even marathon (gen ends) made a fuss about supplying. Cummins told them to suck a dick and held their feet to the fire, therefore stamford isnt playing ball.

Since then they (enerflex) have lost waukesha.

PS: Jenbacher used to be retailed exclusively through waterous (WAJAX) but is now a distinct line.
Jenbacher is specifically used for powerplants. GE holds the exclusivety for all engineering and installation as well as maintenance. They will NEVER sell the rights to Jenbacher.

Jenbacker is only competitive in moderate size power plans, its not used for standby /small o&g prime.

CHP is becoming a big concept among people using gas. Waukesha doesnt currently produce an as built line with scrubbers and in-house heat exchangers. Players like Liebherr and Guascor are shoving their way in.

Guascor through kohler is coming online in 2016 and Shindoa is producing cheeeeeap gas engines.

Even Wei-chai is blasting the market with nat-gas engines.

[killramos]

^ lol no kidding

[R154]

Sorry Mibz, I didnt write my post very eloquently. But I'm pretty sure that some of the people in the industry (power generation/utility) will decipher it.

[haggis88]

Made sense to me, although I didn't know much about the whole Waukesha/Jenbacher side of things as my background is all aeroderivative jets

Cool to see someone else in the industry, what do you do R154?

[killramos]

Haven't seen it posted yet but spyglass is formally going into receivership...

http://boereport.com/2015/11/26/spyg...-shareholders/

Gonna be a lot of people let go over that one

[schocker]

Just saw that
http://calgaryherald.com/business/en...-debt-covanant
Dealt with them a bit over the years, sucks to hear.

[R154]

Originally posted by haggis88
Made sense to me, although I didn't know much about the whole Waukesha/Jenbacher side of things as my background is all aeroderivative jets

Cool to see someone else in the industry, what do you do R154?

Power Generation, Prime/backup. Design & PM.

[Feruk]

The Spyglass thing isn't overly surprising. Their assets weren't particularly good. They're the first of probably half a dozen companies in a similar boat.

[killramos]

Spyglass has been dead man walking for a year. Still to bad.

[Cos]

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[R154]

Originally posted by Cos


We don't need backup...........

bwahahahahaha.



CSA282

Eat it Utility.

[Cos]

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[R154]

To be fair, Alberta has hands down the absolute best power infrastructure, anywhere. Once the HVDC project is done we'll also have some of the most technologically advanced mains in the world.

The floods proved that we rarely have outage level events. But when we do, people are sure glad the lights and elevators work.

These days most of my work is going down to the states. Custom Gens/distribution.

[schurchill39]

Originally posted by killramos
Haven't seen it posted yet but spyglass is formally going into receivership...

http://boereport.com/2015/11/26/spyg...-shareholders/

Gonna be a lot of people let go over that one

A co-workers' wife works there and she is on vacation right now. That's going to be really shitty news to come home to

[schurchill39]

EDIT: Double post

[argent]

Statoil Canada restructuring ~20%

[16hypen3sp]

Girlfriends hours just got cut as of yesterday.