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opic: thermotron
who is ron wiley?

well i guess business has picked up..

because there is no "for sale" sign out side your building.. ..

i had spoke with the new National service manager

Ron wiley a while back and

he had said that randy hertis the michigan service dispatcher
and was no longer there and i can't imagine he left by choice,

or went far,

so i was wondering where he was now?.

Also he said that Doug mahn the vibration sales man was no longer working there..

i can't imagine him leaving .. (so it's probably a lie)

he was the project manager on the ill fated litton project..

When i told litton that a project that size should have a project manager..

Thats when i found out that doug mahn was "the man.". ha ha ..

good communication huh? ..

But no loss because your ( Espec) company got the follow on contract..

But i understand you have Mr. Rouloffs there now.

the replacement of Dick Mckinly.. funny

"Curt"the sales guy he replaced bo bjarno with in San Jose ..

said that jim roulfes and the
sales staff had to go around with a good grip on their ankles "
to survive..

just keep smilling i guess..

and say yes sir!! DAN

Thanks for this moment of your time...
P.S.

"It's not me, it's the complimentary peanuts."


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thermotron technicians
Mood: mischievious
Topic: thermotron
Most manufacturers have a rate schedule and limitations on hours to perform certain procedures leaving a technician / small business holding the bag for unforseen problems that arise. There is not one person that I know who owns a small business (2-10 employee's) that likes or wants to do warranty work.
I realize there are companies out there who will "rape" a manufacturer if given free reign, and there in lies a lot of your problem.
I may or may not be addressing the problem that your speaking of but tried...





So, therm, why can't you get help?

What did you do that techs don't want to work for you?




Its not that we are having turnover issues at all. We are trying to add new techs in some different locations. As well, we can find help...just not always the help that we want. Our hiring process is fairly extensive <----leads to a much lower rate of turnover for us in the long run. It is difficult for us to find 'good' technicians, in some areas. The biggest challenge is that I'm located in Michigan, most of the time more than a few hundred miles away from where the position is that I'm trying to fill.



Hey, Therm, checked out your website- "them must be them new fangled air conditioners I been hearin about."

No wonder you have an extensive hiring practices. . . You must have a hell of a training program! I'd be kind of leery working on something like that. But I suppose it would be kind of cool opening one of those things up to see what's happening inside.

I wish you the best of luck finding a tech, I can see why your having a hard time.






Yeah, we've had a few interviews in before talking about how they can fix anything, and there isn't much they haven't seen. Then we take them out into the plant where these are made and some become humbled very quickly. I've actually had 2 that we've flown in town say, uhhh....this is a little beyond me. All it takes is a willingness to learn...we'll teach you. Extensive training program for sure. Thanks for your well wishes
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good people are hard to find
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former employee thermotron

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"BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IN LIFE. ULTIMATELY, GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE. THE SUN CAME UP THIS MORNING. THE WORLD WILL NOT END." KEVIN HOLT
A job lost and perspective gained
Gastonia man was fired a week after notifying his firm he had been deployed.

MIKE DRUMMOND
mdrummond@charlotteobserver.com

Kevin Holt of Gastonia bears little likeness to the chiseled warriors depicted in Army posters.

He's 41, heavyset and has a habit of pushing his eyeglasses to the bridge of his nose.

He's a citizen-soldier.

The former sailor enlisted in the National Guard in July 2004 as a way to supplement his income and heed a call to service.

Last summer, between supervising a chow line at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit, Iraq, and running food convoys, Holt sat at dusty computer keyboards, hunting and pecking the answers to his online college course. He hoped a business degree would help him land a job.

Thermotron Industries, based in Holland, Mich., fired Holt in April 2005,

near the height of the Bush administration's call-up of National Guard members and just a week after Holt told the company he was being deployed to Iraq.

Holt serviced Thermotron's environmental test chambers, which expose electronics and other devices to temperature extremes. He covered a patch of the Southeast for the privately held, mid-sized company, making about $54,000 a year.

Holt says Thermotron accused him of trying to bill the company for Yellow Pages advertising he had ordered for his side repair business.

BellSouth had mailed the bill to Thermotron by mistake, an error Holt said his boss had resolved more than eight months before.

The married father of two worked seven years for Thermotron, which has a growing defense-contract business.

The termination was an about-face for a company that two months before firing him had given Holt another glowing annual evaluation.


Fellow soldiers in the National Guard's 505th Engineer Battalion said they thought the timing of the firing looked fishy. They told him about the law designed to protect civilian jobs of part-time soldiers called to active duty.

Holt tried to get his job back.

He filed complaints with state and federal labor departments.

He thought his case was a slam-dunk.

Thermotron sent letters in its defense.
It produced copies of the Yellow Pages bill it said proved Holt tried to deceive the company.

The company denied that a supervisor had told Holt the billing mistake had been resolved.

Holt provided documents but couldn't produce anything showing Thermotron fired him because his military service conflicted with the company's need for a repairman in the Southeast.

Channels prove fruitless

Like thousands of service members,

Holt's journey through government channels proved futile."They wanted documents," Holt says of labor officials. "But I was getting ready to go to war."

By November 2005, with Holt in Iraq, state and federal labor officials had sent letters to his house.

The agencies ruled Thermotron fired him "for cause."

Richard Castillo, the U.S. Labor Department's assistant director in Michigan, said Holt could request the agency refer the case to the Justice Department for possible litigation.

But Castillo would recommend "no further action be taken."

Ronald Lampen,

Thermotron's vice president of service operations, noted agencies ruled in the company's favor.

"Holt's allegations are unfounded and untrue," Lampen told the Observer in a phone call.

He refused to answer further questions, then hung up.

A call to a job

Above Kevin Holt's backyard workshop, a massive portrait of Jesus stands watch.

"Bad things will happen to you in life," Holt says.

"Ultimately, God is still on the throne.

The sun came up this morning. The world will not end."

Last October Holt returned home to hugs, red-white-and-blue bunting around the mailbox ... and a job interview.

Espec North America had heard Holt was no longer with competitor Thermotron.

After e-mailing Holt in Iraq, the company agreed to talk with him when he got back.
In November, he became Espec's newest employee.


Going from civilian to soldier, from Gastonia to Tikrit and back, from unemployed to employed in a little over a year has imbued Holt with perspective.

"I grew up a lot during the experience," he says. "I never lost a job before. Never experienced unemployment. I always feared facing that.

But the calamity I thought was going to happen, didn't happen."
He enrolled in school again, this time to work on a master's in theology through an online program.

"I feel called," Holt says, "to serve as an Army chaplain."


As a Guard member, Holt says he's willing to return to Iraq or wherever his country needs him.
He also abides by the gospel of Luke, the passage that admonishes

"Love your enemies," and "pray for those who mistreat you."

holland michigan christian training

thermotron "fake-it-till-U--make--it" get accrediated

thermotron " namby --pamby--land

Thermotron Industries is America's largest manufacturer of environmental simulation and stress testing chambers. We offer a standing reputation of providing equipment and service to our customers.

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive compensation program, including bonus eligibility, overtime pay

thomas patterson from ESPEC (thermotron trained)..

said .. he didn't want 2 say anything BAD about the different liers and embezzlers he has worked with.. Gee i wonder why?

well if your can't say anything good about them except:

GOSH ! they sure are Good at lying


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adj.
Insipid and sentimental.
Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless.
n., pl., -bies.
One that is insipid, sentimental, or weak.

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thermotron F ield service training includes bonus's

remember 2 -- take the customer to lunch.. he deserves it !@!


yes at Thermotron .. you will be taught that "every-one" is the manager .. and this includes your being a Tattle --tail!! (back biter-Bannach) (or leading some one astray) to get more bonus points!!

you will learn the fine art of deception and lying..and the skill every-one enjoys the most.. "Embezzlement" and don't worry about the Preventive -maintenance contract!!

just put the the approved hours and take the rest of the day off!!

(besides except 4 changing solonids.. this equipment is really

" Run --till-- failure"






just go to the beach if you are on the west coast in california..

go visit the guys at All temp engineering .. mitch kerr and john dane are friends of thermotron former employee's... or maybe Hil Sybesma is available 4--lunch...

(it is easy 2 find former thermotron employee's and hey they know you are a lier -2"

Li´er (lī´ẽr)
n. 1. One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.
There were liers in a ambush against him.

But watch --out--- Hil Sysbesma may LIE to you and say "Geee i for got my wallet!!

""

Be sides ... "
Who's gona ---Know??

The theory of the frequency response of ellipsoidal biological cells in rotating electrical fields

References:

Sybesma, An Introduction to Biophysics, Academic Press, New York (1977).

And regardless of what they tell you.. the "west Coast Regional Manager" is nothing more than an "over-rated" service dispatcher !!


it's good 2 be in management at thermotron.. .. if you need help.. remember!!

u get all the dick you can eat 4 lunch!!! or at happy hour

and pump the customer all you can .. to get the in-side-track !!

Tattle-Tale;;;;;

Noun 1. tattle tale tattle tale - someone who gossips indiscreetly

blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale

gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, gossip -

a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others..

at thermotron.. EVERY-One is a Manager and tattle-tale

MY taxes.. and thermotron .. pay..check

MY taxes.. and thermotron .. pay..check








I took my first job out of college in 1986. I went to work for Thermotron Industries in Holland, Michigan.

Thermotron was (and is) a manufacturer of environmental test chambers. The idea is that if you want to make sure a product works under specific conditions (temperatures, humidity, vibrations, and so on), you test it first in one of these chambers.

Soon after starting I was privileged to experience the first of many “why government is worthless” rants by a native West Michigander.

I forget who it was or why he was doing it, but it likely had something to do with payday and deductions. It was good theater.

He was quite passionate — lots of “stupid wastes of money” and “stay the hell out of my life” and “killing the working man.”

I enjoyed it, but later it struck as a bit hypocritical.

You see at the time the country was in the middle of a massive military build up — huge amounts of taxpayer money (and future debt) were being poured into modernizing the armed forces.

Defense contractors ramped up to meet the need and were keen to make sure the stuff they were manufacturing actually worked.

Ipso facto, approximately 75% of Thermotron sales were to defense contractors, which meant a greater portion of each employees’ paycheck was provided by (and not taken by) Uncle Sam. Ah, the circle of life.

So I want to be clear about my point in this week’s comic.

I am not a neo-Reagnite who believes that all government is inherently bad. If the past six months have demonstrated nothing else, it has proven without doubt that any large organization can be equally adept at wasting money: banks, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers, branches of the military, and of course the federal government.

What we should want, what we should expect — what we deserve — is some accountability from them. We can’t wish them all away — the void would simply be filled by other large organizations. (Ever read “Animal Farm”?) To get accountability there is got to be some checks and balances, some auditing, some tweaking, some informed reporting — a lot messier than “stay the hell out of my life,” but potentially more fruitful.

Oh. My point: West Michigan is getting hosed by the federal government. And if we can’t get some accountability, how about some free pie?



what bullshit Do U believe..????