Why Hewlett-Packard employees hate the company
I work at Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest computer maker. I work there but I am a temporary employee. It is not a temp to hire position but a permanent temp position. You see Hewlett-Packard has a policy of when a regular employee leaves or quits their replacement will be a temp worker. This will be done until Hewlett-Packard has reached it’s goal of staffing with temp workers at a rate of 60% versus 40% regular employees. So I have a snowball’s chance in hell to ever become an HP employee.
What Hewlett-Packard does not realize is the fact that temp workers have no vested interest in having HP succeed as a company, they just want their weekly paychecks. That being said you will start to notice a marked decline in the quality of HP products in the future, all because they do not treat their employee – whether temp or regular, with respect or offer them a stable future with the company.
Hewlett-Packard, you suck!
I know someone working as a contractor (fancy name for temp) for 10 years before being converted to perm. This is how most corporations save money nowadays. Plus the outsourcing. We are considered lucky to even have a job.
Look at how they treat contractors at: http://contractorsplight.blogspot.com.
That is how most temps view themselves at the HP location I am at – lucky to be working.
My opinion is this: if the state or federal USA government made the diffination of “temporary worker” as a person working no more than 30 days. Any days over 30, worker is now considered permant and is entitled to vacation, sick, and medical benifits. That might put a stop on the amount of abuse that goes on with major companies NOT making the committment of hiring regular workers.
Crying about being a temp employee with HP? Where I come from…you are lucking to have a job at a great company like HP, temp or full time.
Hey DR – I guess you have never worked at HP. Well, where should I start? I commute 43 miles each way to that low paying job ($9.00 per hour). No benifits, no holiday pay, no vacation (been there almost 2 years now). It now costs me close to $50.00 a week in gasoline. Some of the regular HP employees have taken early retirement because they can no longer afford the commute – they live further than I do. I would quit right now but I would be denied unemploymnet benifts.
Also reading your post I wonder if you think that a “temp” is another word for part time?
FYI this HP location is NOT in California but in another state with high unemployment.
That explains the crap service I get both from the telephone technical suport and the repair department in the UK. No good complaining the management just let it go in one ear and out the other – now there’s customer service for you.
Apparently you didn’t hear out intrepid President…we can all just go out and get retrained for high-tech jobs…the same ones that get shipped to Bangalore for $180 a month (IT support call center) as soon as you’re trained! An average programmer in India makes $6000-$12000 a year. That’s why we get Bob from Bangalore and Nancy from New Dehli every time we call now. $9.00 an hour is too much! And you want benefits? OMG!!!!
Hi Tom, as you well know a temp worker is not allowed anywhere near HP company meetings that discuss training, employment or the future of HP. They even had secrity guards around the meeting areas to keep us out. Of course the security guards were also temps!
I hear you. I’ve been stuck as a temp for 2, count them 2 looong years at a major telecom company. I’ve been sitting side by side with, and doing the same job as, people who make double what I make. Every time they need more help, they refuse to make any temps permanent. Instead, they transfer in perm. people from other departments who know nothing about the job and make the temps train them. I only stick with it because even at my lousy wage, I can’t find anything that pays more. They also recently forced me to move to graveyard shift with no shift differential. It blows.
Being a “TEMP” at HP myself I can relate to JJ.
I can even accept the fact that there are no benefits, but the treatment as a 3rd class person really can get to you!
I hate ‘ em so much and I wold like to see this company going down…….