On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 10:45:44 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
DerbyDad03 <[email protected]> writes:
On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 6:20:54 PM UTC-5, Leon wrote:
What passes for "Kodak" today is a shadow of what the company once was. >> >
Well now that you looked all of that up, ...
Actually I lived it. For 21 years. Got stock options at ~$50 that were worthless by the time
they vested. Not enough time in for the pension to reach the steep slope, so all I got from
them was what they matched in my 401k.
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Then as divisions were sold off or mothballed and buildings began to be torn down, there were
no more projects coming down the pike. They didn't IT project managers any more. Towards
the end we used to drive through Kodak Park, look at all the red brick landscaping material being
spread around the remaining buildings and make jokes like "That used to be Bldg. 320". Seriously,
they were decorating the plant with the remnants of old buildings.
There was a Kodak plant right next to the Burroughs plant I was
working at in the 80's in Pasadena - Data something division, I think.
Datatape - high end tape recorders and similar equipment for the instrumentation space.
It was torn down and replaced with a strip mall (Hastings Village), the
old Burroughs building (originally Electrodata, mid 50's) is still there, north of
Electronic Drive.
One of the buildings I used to work in at Kodak Park is now an indoor self-storage business.
It faced the main thoroughfare that bisects the plant, so all they had to do was move the
fence that ran along the road to the back of the building and Poof...the building was no longer
inside the plant. Sold!
Here's a fun fact: For over 30 years there was a small nuclear research reactor that contained
3½ pounds of highly enriched uranium. It was in the basement of the Research Labs, a complex
of 3 buildings that was just outside of the main plant. For a couple of years I maintained a lot
of computer equipment in the research labs and had a small shop in the same basement. It wasn't
until I was already gone that I found out that I was on the opposite side of the wall from some
weapons grade uranium.
https://i.imgur.com/6Ocgc5B.jpg
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