Kodak film was the era of king, but now experiencing the most severe winter
Lead: foreign media wrote today, along with Kodak is about to file for bankruptcy protection, the company of the former employees had memories of past times: when Kodak was a giant high-spirited, but now, they rely on royalties reduced to a living, and the brink of bankruptcy.
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At its peak, Kodak’s global workforce to 145,000. It has attracted worldwide engineers, and scientists Dr. Rochester, NY to its headquarters city, many professionals are proud to work in the company.
Today, the veteran has a 131-year-old company filed for bankruptcy protection may be, retirees no longer had the passion,wow gold, replaced by concerns about their own welfare. Looking back, this film giants who are former employees with a sort of melancholy. Once upon a time, working here very secure, while the couple worked for Kodak’s situation is not uncommon.
Here is their story:

Terry Luther (Terry Rood), 52-year-old Rochester, New York

when Kodak layoffs the most difficult to find a new job is a factory worker and film lab people. Many of them graduated from high school to join the Kodak, and has been focused on the film industry, and now, the industry is outdated. In today’s situation, even college students are having trouble finding work, not to mention them.
He is now a hotel night airport bus driver.
52-year-old high school in 1981, Luther came to Kodak, and in the darkroom work. Last December, the effectiveness of the company 29 years later, he was fired.
as a bus driver, he was working every day from 6 pm to 2 am, low income, but occasionally a little tip. Leaving Kodak, he salary is $ 22 per hour, plus benefits.
the end, Luther will find a second job: to a local hospital valet parking. He also had a local beer and pharmaceutical distribution company worked.
Luther has three children, two in college, so he has been to live frugally, and even this had to give up some time in Kodak’s favorite thing, such as eating out.
Yuehan Mai Cowie (John McCoy), 47-year-old, New York Webster (Webster)

Kodak layoffs brought a side effect: stimulated Rochester more entrepreneurial activities.
McCoy and several other colleagues being laid off are being considered, can create an image associated with the mobile start-up companies. Was fired in August last year before the 47-year-old McCoy has been working at Kodak for 21 years. He said, Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection because of the growing potential for some of the original is still the company of friends also started business.
McCoy was fired at his wife again went to work. They consider to leave Rochester, but the 6-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son still in school here, close to home.
McCoy originally in Kodak’s digital department as a product manager, the department responsible for the production of digital cameras,wow gold, digital photo frames and digital cameras.
For this reason, McCoy and colleagues at the time set out to develop products and other wireless devices, and occasionally also developed a number of television products. They even worked on a Tablet PC prototype. But in 2008, the economic crisis unexpected, wireless camera and digital photo frame oversupply. Kodak’s budget cuts the camera business, and to put money into ink-jet printer, to bet on that.
Paul Gilman (Paul Gilman), 82-year-old, New York, Penfield (Penfield)

Man says he worked at Kodak 1956.
82-year-old Gilman worked at Kodak for 33 years, after retiring in 1989. He said the heyday of the Kodak vibrant, engineers, and scientists hope the breakthrough invention.

Kodak’s patented more than 11,000, the company has been in the past few years to collect royalties, to support the core to the new printer model transformation. Gilman also applied in the Kodak 60 patents.
retirement, Gilman and his wife mainly by Kodak’s pension and medical insurance life. He was worried that filed for bankruptcy protection will lose this income.
Roger Gaussian (Roger Goss), 67 years old, La Florida (Largo)

Gauss began in 1970 after graduating from university work in the Kodak, 67-year-old He has held various positions, the last one is the system analyst.
After several rounds of layoffs, he left in 2003.
1970′s, just to work in Pennsylvania Gaussian requires frequent travel to meet with the dealer. At that time, he witnessed the Pennsylvania McKee Spot (McKeesport) from the bustling city into a rusting iron and steel scrap are.
although insiders had urged Kodak to give the film business, but the Gaussian recalls, company executives because the obsession with short-and ignore them.
2003,wow gold, he bought Kodak stock. Gauss said that Kodak’s stock fell to his losses. He had stock options worth thousands of dollars, but when he see the investment performance last week, they noticed that their value is only $ 33. (Book Yu)
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