Monahan Filaments to shutter Middlebury plant; county sheds 69 jobs

This news doesn't surprise me at all. Thankfully I got out when it got sold. I pity my friends who stuck with the new company. I told them they would never make it, but i was told to have some faith. Well who was right? I just hope that everyone gets new jobs, and learns that having to take pay cuts, and hour cuts just to stay with this job was not worth it in the end.

I worked for Monahan Filaments from January 2nd 2008 until January 17th 2009 and that is one of the most ridiculous operations I have ever seen, the management doesnt know what there doing from one moment to the next and there's always some Union / Management drama the place was a craphole and the management there all think there "big shots" and better then all the hardworking employee's who were Actually contributing to the company and working hard to actually try and do something to get out of the hole while management got in there way and made bad decisions and stood around in there suits afraid to get dirty and stood around in five or six people circles sipping on there coffee acting like there talking about something important something critical to keeping the company running an make it lots of money! My whole time working there I recall one meeting we had it was a Union / Management meeting were they told us that the sales dept. took 5,000 orders and 3,500 of which we werent going to make any money on we only took them hoping that if we delivered they would throw more buisness are way. Ha what a joke that was we were constantly made to do things that made no sense as far as a employee making a decision that would save the company money B/C we actually ran the machines and knew what would be the best way to make more product and less scrap but the "Big shots" there would make us do it there way because they were all on a power trip there an they thought they were running a multi million dollar buisness the only thing they were doing was running it into the ground and fast!!! I have been waiting for this ad in the paper and it comes as no surprise it got here so quickly my Advice to all Buisnesses potentially going to hire the Employees of Monahan Filaments hire the Union Employees The Machine Operators , Cutter Packers and Material Handlers but if someone from Management there try's to put a application in take the application an put it in the employee bathroom as toilet paper cause thats all its good for unless you want a egotistical "Hot Shot" at your work then I advise you to do so!!!
------- Travis Michael Carosella

i worked there while it was specialty filaments and then when monahan took over. it was a joke the whole time. the building was falling apart around you, at least on the factory floor where the real damage could be done. but the offices were beautiful. god forbid anyone actually put money in to the machines instead of new desks, which when i was there sherry ramsey got a new desk but yet parts for machines were not bought. im glad to hear it is going up in smoke.

number one, when you work there you see everything. and yes there was a new desk in the managers office, we were there when it got delivered, and when the new man who took over he re-did the office. and as far as the people who are out of a job, it is their own fault. everyone who was there through all the s*** that happened with the selling and shutting down, they should have known that the place was not going to last. So no i dont feel pity on them at all. if they were not smart enough to get out when they could they get what they deserve.

The employees of Monahan's management or union employees since Monahans bought the plant. The Monahan hired a plant manager who had no idea how to run a filaments plant would not listen to any of the employees under him management or union employees many of whom had many year of service in the plant and great knowledge and ideas on what should have been done,. The Monahans let this man ruin what should have been one of the plants best years into a loss. By the time the powers that be addressed his short comings it was to late the economy had turned south. The statement that we are the Middlebury because of orders is not entirely true at the time of the annoucement we had orders and things began to look up It is my opinion that the Monahans just do not want to work with the union and for them it was an easier way to move our jobs to Arcola that I feel is the bottom line We the people of Monahan Filaments will lose our jobs because the Monahan decision mainly John Monahan were poor and caused a profittable company to loss money Not the management within the plant or the union workers that is the sad truth and our jobs will be moved to Monahan's home town of Arcola Ill. Which many in the plant have felt was the plan all along,

I think that Monahan's planned on doing what they did right from the start of them purchasing the company.. They seemed to have a very negative attitude about the future of the company.. I think that they purchased the company at a very cheap price , intending to do exactly what they did , for example , selling machines for big money , machines that came from the heart of this community, built from the hard work of people that have worked in that industry for more than 40 years, in that factory..
Not to mention the lies that they told the employee's in the last few months about the company's profits, the fact that the company was making a profit for months, and the company was making profits , even before they announced they were closing the doors, and that came , from some of the "top" people , and Monahan was told himself that he was shutting down the wrong plant..
There are many more things that are negative about how they operated that company , too many to mention..
So , I think we should say a big "sarcastic" thanks to the Monahan's for stripping this community of alot of jobs , a business thats emplyed people for alot of years, and for making the unemployment rate even higher for the state of Vermont !