Posted on 03/08/2014 6:51:24 PM PST by Astute
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin, Texas, technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea.
Jacey Zuniga, a spokeswoman for Freescale Semiconductor, says 12 Malaysian and 8 Chinese employees are "confirmed passengers." She says no American citizen Freescale employees were on the flight.
Your evidence is...?
When BMW builds cars in SC to sell to Americans are those outsourced German jobs?
There’s no plane is there? :-)))
Malaysia and Tianjin are large manufacturing fabs, and it appears we lost some managers. That said, a lot of the fabs for Freescale are in the US, R&D is in the US, and design centers are in Asia, US and Europe (Israel as well).
check freescale’s products. they make crypto coprocessors
Geez, I just had a chill down my back and the hair on my forearms stood up after reading your post:
“So did mine. We lost a team of engineers back then, and Corporate immediately declared we’d never again have entire teams on the same plane. Years have gone by, and the suits that decided that have long since been replaced, including the CEO. The new suits figured they were much smarter than the old ones. Until a couple days ago, we were pretty much back to the old ways.
BTW, that company is Freescale.”
Apparently, many corporate travel arrangers with companies get some nice freebies when they cram a lot of employees on the same plane or make them fly two or three stops to get some place when a less costly non stop with better connections is available.
No wreckage found so far. Kinda suspicious since a bird hitting the ocean from height would break up and leave a lot of floating stuff.
If it’s in the water the crash beacons would be on transmitting.
“That’s terrible, but why does a US company have that many foreign employees?”
Sad thing for those people.
The only thing American about many of these global companies is the name. They want us and our military to be patriotic, but they no longer have a clue what it means.
I used to be a corporatist when USA CEOs were patriots who put America and Americans first. I see them now as opportunists willing to sell out the USA and our national sovereignty because it gets in the way of their anti-conservative liberal globalist movement. The only thing many of these global corporations want from America are their fingers in US taxpayer handouts.
I have no idea why they dropped the rule. If they did it to save money, and it can be proved, they’re going to lost that saved money to the families that can sue over it.
Did I fail to post this before on this thread?
Anyone who has worked for a big corporation today knows you start out loving them as family until you finally discover you are not really family but a means to an end to cut costs.
I subsequently retired and started my own business. Now I’m older but less clueless.
Older yet but sorry I’m not happy being screwed over so a CEO making many millions can make even more. If other conservatives see me as wrong on this let me know. Greed and avarice is not my version of America. My version is honesty.
I see conservatism as making sovereignty and country and long term culture first, and national stability and security too, and not about giving elite outsiders with billions in their back pocket, the media in their hip pocket, the right to take from long term American citizens as America.
Americans need to wake up that our country is going to the dogs, while Commie Marxists promote their own just as they did in the Soviet Union.
Because they work for Americans in China for dirt cheap wages and Obamas gov't vacations off their profits.
I can testify that Jesus Christ in peoples life sure can make all the difference in the world.
May Jesus come quickly!
First of all, I'm not sure what role Freescale plays today in the industry. They used to make PowerPC processors, but those are history now. I do not see their name often. In the current and emerging processor market (ARM) they are a nobody. Maybe I'm not looking; but theirs is not a household name here. The only Freescale products that I recognize are legacy ones. And they make some interesting RF semiconductors; but that's specialty stuff.
Second, if someone wants to inflict damage to a competitor, destruction of an airliner is hardly the most efficient way to go about it. Targeting low level employees who fly to a training (for example) is not going to hurt much. Taking out a VP, or a lead designer, would be more damaging - and that can be accomplished by sending two strong guys with blackjacks, masquerading as a routine robbery gone wrong. If two "robbers" is not a good option, a live grenade behind his entry door will do the job. High level, key employees do fly often - but they are not easy to predict; they are busy people, and they change their flights faster than they book them. Catching them at home is much easier.
Sorry for your loss....it must feel sureal that this is “your company.”
I’ve felt worse. One day I came in to work, and they had a sign directing everybody to the cafeteria where they had “grief counselors.” One of our IT guys (the best one) had been killed in a plane crash in Taiwan. Fortunately for his wife and kids, he was on a business trip.
Makes one wonder what they have tens of thousands of people doing, huh? Maybe....you just don't know much about Freescale? It's true the name isn't out there much. If you were an automotive designer you might have a little more knowledge about the company. You can't build a NASCAR racer without them.
My condolences go out to you and your family.
Some international companies (based in USA) have stopped reporting their overseas headcounts,,,case in point?
IBM
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