petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
@nxadm relocating, except there's zero qualified people or expertise where it's heading so I wouldn't buy their next product 😉
Feb 5 at 4:31pmTusky
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Feb 5

@nxadm ah, the unions are now informed...

https://vrtnws.be/p.VLGoy9LPm

The article is quite misleading, the printers are produced in China but the team they fired is the one that designs them (R&D)

#Dymo has little other printer related development in the US, only software and drivers. All expertise on thermal printing is gone 🤯

Dymo-producent Sint-Niklaas schrapt 23 jobs door verhuizing naar VS: "Trump-beleid speelt mee" | VRT NWS: nieuws

Newell Brands Belgium in Sint-Niklaas, dat labels maakt voor de Dymo-labelprinters, wil 23 werknemers ontslaan. Dat meldt de liberale vakbond ACLVB. In het kader van de Wet-Renault starten volgende week gesprekken met de directie.

VRT NWS
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Feb 6
I just realised the entire company now has only 2 firmware engineers left, both in the US, one is a chinese national and the other has a dark skin. Let's hope they do not meet ICE
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Feb 6
Anyway, it's quite amazing that this news is ignored and even the unions don't call for action. R&D is just gone:
- mechanical design of printers, cassettes and labels
- chemical specialists for labels and carbon
- electronics engineers
- firmware development, including the only ones who know how their NFC 'drm paper' works
No more new #Dymo printers in the next years and probably impact on label production 🤦
Brother, Zebra, Brady and others must be having a party.
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Feb 6

but peter, I hear you say, surely the management has a grand plan, they know what they are doing...

well, the US manager for R&D barely knows who does what and where, and this 'exercise' was even done a level above him (or he lied)

in fact, he speaks highly of one of their US developers because of the hours she puts in, that's the metric they look at... I happen to know that the reason she works so many hours is to get her work done, she does less in 5 days than I do in 4 🤷‍♂️

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Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Feb 7
*homelab cleared of leftover prototype and development materials*
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼2d ago

Seems it's final now, and as I suspected there won't be a dev team in the US, they will buy complete 3rd party (design, development, production - so basically Dymo printers will be whatever some Chinese company created, just slap their name on it)

And since the current development is now also halted, it looks like the last firmware I made for them will be the LME640 which is on sale for more than a year now...

RIP Dymo