Hello Randy,
I wish there was something the league could do about all the great mechanics, transporter drivers, engineers, PR, and office staff (and others) that get laid off every year at the end of the season. I have lived through a few myself. It is a gut wrenching and life chang
ing time.
This year seems abnormally high. Is it really true everyone from Panther, 26 from KV Racing, 12 from Ganassi B Team were laid off? I believe it is so, and I am sure there are more. THESE ARE YOUR TOP TEAMS.
As a former team manager, and mechanic I have been on both ends of these layoffs, having had to lay people off and being laid off myself.
I know the conversations that go on in the front office, some of them cold, calloused, and uncaring. Others who have had to make these tough decisions are deeply troubled by the reality of what is about to happen.
There are some of your team owners who genuinely care about their people, and strive hard each and every day to keep them all employed. Sometimes, despite their best effort they come up short at the end of the year and have to lay a few people off.
FOR OTHER TEAM OWNERS, a seemingly growing number, this is part of the budget, knowing that after the engines are removed from the cars back at the shop after the last race, the layoffs that come will save the year and make it profitable.
As far as I know your competitors like NASCAR don't do this in such wholesale fashion.
How about instead of rewarding the owners with the 5 million dollars for purchasing the new cars, IndyCar sets up a fund, that the owners have to pay into each year, so that when the mechanics get laid off at the whim of your ever so caring team owners, they have a place to turn to. Maybe all of these mechanics who just got laid off should be given jobs at Dallara to help build all of the cars your going to need in 2013.
How about some fines and penalties for team owners who do not manage their budgets in such a way as to keep mechanics and other staff employed full time.
Please don't tell me its about the economy! This practice happens in good economies and bad economies. IT'S AN ATTITUDE AND A CULTURE that has been developing in the league over the last few years. Although it is gone on for many years, it seems much more accelerated since the schedule was compressed sometime back in 2004 or so.
Randy, as the CEO of IndyCar, you need to work as hard for these guys, the very ones who support what you are doing, as you do for the Hulman-George family.
THIS SHOULD BE embarrassing to you , IndyCar, and the team owners, but its all too often just excepted as part of the business.
I think its time you spoke up, and made some changes to encourage year-round employment for your people. Because they are your people, under your watch.
This year seems abnormally high. Is it really true everyone from Panther, 26 from KV Racing, 12 from Ganassi B Team were laid off? I believe it is so, and I am sure there are more. THESE ARE YOUR TOP TEAMS.
As a former team manager, and mechanic I have been on both ends of these layoffs, having had to lay people off and being laid off myself.
I know the conversations that go on in the front office, some of them cold, calloused, and uncaring. Others who have had to make these tough decisions are deeply troubled by the reality of what is about to happen.
There are some of your team owners who genuinely care about their people, and strive hard each and every day to keep them all employed. Sometimes, despite their best effort they come up short at the end of the year and have to lay a few people off.
FOR OTHER TEAM OWNERS, a seemingly growing number, this is part of the budget, knowing that after the engines are removed from the cars back at the shop after the last race, the layoffs that come will save the year and make it profitable.
As far as I know your competitors like NASCAR don't do this in such wholesale fashion.
How about instead of rewarding the owners with the 5 million dollars for purchasing the new cars, IndyCar sets up a fund, that the owners have to pay into each year, so that when the mechanics get laid off at the whim of your ever so caring team owners, they have a place to turn to. Maybe all of these mechanics who just got laid off should be given jobs at Dallara to help build all of the cars your going to need in 2013.
How about some fines and penalties for team owners who do not manage their budgets in such a way as to keep mechanics and other staff employed full time.
Please don't tell me its about the economy! This practice happens in good economies and bad economies. IT'S AN ATTITUDE AND A CULTURE that has been developing in the league over the last few years. Although it is gone on for many years, it seems much more accelerated since the schedule was compressed sometime back in 2004 or so.
Randy, as the CEO of IndyCar, you need to work as hard for these guys, the very ones who support what you are doing, as you do for the Hulman-George family.
THIS SHOULD BE embarrassing to you , IndyCar, and the team owners, but its all too often just excepted as part of the business.
I think its time you spoke up, and made some changes to encourage year-round employment for your people. Because they are your people, under your watch.
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