The Malaysian Insider

Well, you guys don't have to boycott anymore. Intel left you. Now go to Palestine and join the Jihadi movement. Be careful what you say in the future.

Didn't the Human Resource Ministry said that the employer has to prove that business is down and loss making before shutting down and retrenching? The signs were there since Nov-08 but our dungu ministers said Malaysia will not be in recession. It's not surprising more than a 1,000 machines are being repossessed in Penang alone by the finance companies during this time until February. Most of these companies were vendors of these multi-national foreign companies and were already hit badly the last 3-4 months.

Our half-past-six MOF still in denial mode.

Two Intel plants to be shut down in penang. But didn't our politbureau assure us that 'semuanya okay' recently?

So, your news of a shut down must be a fabricated lie? Remember, our leaders have been telling us repeatedly that we can buffer the global recession.

Dr Mahathir and those who support USA's product boycott. Congrats - Intel is the first US entity to make your wish come true. Will you give jobs to the Rakyat who are victims of the Intel PEN shut-down? If you cant, please keep whatever wishes you have TO YOURSELF rather than voice out to whip up and rally sentiments of the short-sighted, long-sighted but not the far sighted Rakyat. Please..please & please!

UMNO has existed on fallacies;

a. Ketuanan Melayu - laughable, tuan when you are hungry..?
b. Insulation from the rest of the world - not when you are ranked as one of the top trading nations of the world.
c. Translatable - Dewan BP thought they could translate all English to Malay given enough resources, that is until the internet revolution took off and there were more books being published than they could translate.
d. Islamic law - they think it is perfect when it is far from it - God's law is only perfect when implemented by God. Man is known to be fallible by the holy books - so how can they implement God's law.
God will know when to reward and when to condemn you, no need for man to try to use HIS name.
e. Racial polarisation - another of UMNO's invention.

Intel lastest action is a series of ungoing and continuous signs that UMNO's fallacy no longer has a place in this modern world.

Do you honestly believe that this has to do with boycott?? At some point i heard they said go ahead boycott,we're too small to makes any different and now Intel close because of what the old man said. Intel also shuts their plant in Philippines, is it because of the boycott over there also ? Come on.. go vent your anger on Jihad somewhere else.

err... DR M, so the boycott on US companies is till on? It will be better if you willing to hire these unemploy workers and show that Malaysi Boleh.

Are we still ok najis??!!!!!!!! Are we?? Answer me you brainless animal, husband of out of proportioned evil witch! Answer the people of Malaysia!

I think they would say that they've won because they boycotted USA stuffs...then the CPU sales have dropped so fast! AHahha

Anyway, their wish have come true...Intel's gone for now....happy now? More unemployed people in times of recession! Pity Guan Eng that it happened in his State.

Let's wait and see which big companies will be packing and leave soon? Previously was Western Digital in Sarawak.

Back during the height of the 1998 Reformasi movement, I said at a public meeting attended bt Dr. Chandra Muzaffar that "I write for one of those lie sheets which you so disparage."

Well back then, I wrote for a mainstream newspaper.

Even without mentioning the name of my publication or company, word of me saying that in public was the talk of the editorial floor.

Now I wonder why Intel did not move up the value chain and continuously re-skill its workers to meet with the challenges of globalisation, free trade and open borders.

No, this closure was not caused by the "boycott".
But the impact is just a small taste of the result of a boycott.
You want a boycott to hurt an American company, this is what a hurt American company does.
And more will follow.
Dr M said "sacrifices" have to be made for our principles.
I'm sure those ex-Intel workers, and their Western Digital counterparts in Kuching, feel happy that their principles are safe.

So what?? why so afraid??? why we have to depend on Intel?? no others way to make $$?? why blame on State Government, and blame others. God gave us Legs, hands, eyes, and others. Perfect to be a human, can't you all think how to survive??

I work in Intel, and I can safely say that this is not a result of the boycott. I don't even think Intel management has heard of the boycott. It is a result of the poor sales and also the factories in question are old and small compared to their counterparts.

Despite the bad press, it might turn out to be a blessing in disguise, as the Intel R&D team in Penang now have some space to grow when the economy recovers. To those that talk about moving up the value chain, perhaps they are not informed that Intel Malaysia is easily the biggest R&D facility in Malaysia. We have a bench strength of more than 1000 engineers in R&D.

Now-now, who ever yang tak suka dok kat sini boleh blah... well, this intel shutdown nothing to do wit TDM....or the boycott or the previous government. While you speak rubishly here, ppl are and were suffering. Enough talking, just lay down n tell us ur plan to help those ppl...or stop talking if u do nutting!

This is most definitely NOT the result of the boycott.

Think about it:
The boycott is less than 1 month old. Our population is less than 30 million. Not all of us are joining the boycott. Intel is the largest chip manufacturer in the world. Do you really think our boycott has anything to do with the closures?

bigone, Western Digital's Kuching plant closed BEFORE the boycott started. I don't think even a worldwide boycott would have an effect before it even starts.

Demand is shrinking worldwide, especially for semiconductor manufacturers. They need to reduce operating costs. So they are consolidating their resources - shrinking payrolls, closing inefficient facilities, reducing operation time, etc.

The economic tsunami started in the US, then spread over to EU, Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Australasia and affecting every country of the world. The tidal waves created slowing reaching the shores of all these countries. This is only the tip of the iceberg and will get worse over the next few months.

MNCs and local businesses are all adversely affected from diminishing orders from overseas buyers. It is imperative for them to trim their excessive overheads in consistent with the sluggish lower sales.

There are so much the govt need to do:

1) Create "Unemployment funds" to help these retrench workers financially
2) Labor & manpower dept should help find or relocate these workers to other trades
3) Enforce the "retrench foreign workers first" policy to protect Malaysians
4) Emulate constructive workable policies from East Asian countries which join hands with all affected industries in reducing salaries & work hours but not retrench workers.

Conduct constant monitoring on global economic trends & adjust applicable policies accordingly !

By now the federal govt & opposition states should shrug off their differences & work closely in tackling this current economic crisis that will inevitably taking care of the rakyat's welfare irrespective of race.

No financial experts or analysts can predict precisely how bad & how long this will last. But we must be well prepared before it is too late!

I find it funny when some people blame it on a non-existent boycott. Are you people living in nutshells? The world economy is collapsing, big companies are consolidating to make sure that they won't get into major problems i.e. the detroit carmakers who's reduced to begging for bailouts from US government. In times like this, people like to play the blame game way too much.

He had call those worker worked in US company resigned.

Here the dream come true.... Those workers in US company not resigned but retrenched.

Although he had developed our country for more than 20 years.

Now he want to destroy our country.......

hey Tak Takut,

Go back to tin mining, rubber plantations. I am with you. you need tin and of course rubber, think condoms..
Rice is another commodity. Most everyone eats rice. Now the is what I call self sufficient. Don't you agree? and if you grow enough you could seel them.. Malaysia Boleh!!!!

This is the reality of life. Its either u value add urself of be rendered redundant. Sad to say the govt here are only interested in producing mediocre graduates. I still can't understand how local unis can allow a graduate who's doing his masters to tutor undergraduates! Have they spend all our money buying warplanes and submarines, and as a result we have adopt such low standards in teaching staff? Where is your priorities, BN? No wonder local unis ranking keep falling. This is what hapends when u elect a UMNO branch / division head to be head of dept or chancellor. Asyik berpolitik aje..

1. HR Minister already predicted job loss, so don't blame him
2. This is not due to Dr M's call to boycott

Intel planned to move to Vietnam months ago. They closed their Phil plants a few mths ago. They gave LGE the chance to convince them to stay in Penang. Guess what ? LGE blew it.

Now LGE is saying Intel is not closing the plants (see the Bernama news). Is he saying Intel is lying ?

Perhaps someone should also ask Jeff Ooi why he made the comments before GE that Intel is closing down ? This obvious lie coming back to hit LGE where it hurts the most.

Just wait and see, investors lining up to leave Penang. Motorola, Dell, WD, Jabil, Flextronics, are just some of them....Don't say I didnt warn...

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written by shankar, January 22, 2009
Why? they didn't discuss that with you? You under estimate your employer. Remember anything anti-American is heard everywhere especially the stte department. Do you know the briefing the President of the US gets every morning? So think before you spew!!

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Shankar accused Anon of under estimating his employer, Intel, and for not believing in the effects of a non-existent boycott. He says that maybe it's because his employer didn't share the info of the grave effects of the non-existent boycott. It seems that he knows more about the goings-on in Intel better than an Intel employee. He also knows that the President of the United States is being regularly briefed on a daily basis about anti-american activities more than the average joe spewing, or should i say sharing honest personally experienced remarks like Anon, the Intel employee. All hail Shankar, for he knows everything.

The closure of the 2 factories in Penang has nothing to do with the boycotts and if anyone thinks otherwise, they are delusional. Just to correct the facts, Intel is not leaving Penang. If you know anything about Intel, they have a huge operation in Penang and the 2 factories affected are legacy factories that have been on the roadmap for closure for years. They are just pulling in the schedule of the closure of these 2 factories due to the old technology and current economic climate.

Intel still has another microprocessor AT plant within the same campus in Penang that will still be continuing operations.

come on, what type of world has become now? world is getting flatter and flatter. pls note that no more border for those MNC. today they can base in U.S.A., tomolo they can move their HQ to singapore when they are given tax exampted or other good offer by gov. i don't understand this Dr.M so stupid to suggest to boycott U.S.A. products. just see how many bumi-businessman can leave their country and stay at oversea to build up their business from zero? they just know to wait for lubang from politicians. how to competite with others? and who makes them so relay on gov?