They made everyone take an IQ test, the top 150 got the boot as a lesson to the rest.

 

I don't recall his or her name. Part of the design team I think.

 

Maybe HD is beginning to reap what it has sewn, which isn't much, new product-wise.

 

Prices to high and sales are low. What do they expect . They could use some new engineers.

 

That’s what I love about civil service.
Seniority is king, workers have a number, no arguments who goes.
Private business: ***-kissing, nepotism, cliques
Strong union? Hell yes, I’ve tried all sides.

 

Harley has over 6,500 employees.

Losing 150 is either quite interesting (depending on who they were) or a complete non-event. If the 150 who were fired were the president, board of directors, design team and DEI/ESG offices, then that's hella interesting. If it's redundant or obsolete employees and just general cleanup, then losing 0.023% of their workforce is a meaningless blip.

According to the article: I saw:
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Sounds like it's no big deal.

 

I hope the designer of the new Sportster got the pink slip and the designer of the FXLRS/T seating position got transferred to HR.

 

The employee count for the moco is more like 5,000 but only about 600 employees actually build the bikes at the assembly plant in York. Electric bike production line will soon move from York to Wisconsin. The York assembly plant is scheduled for 10 weeks of shutdown between now and end of the year, usually it’s only two weeks. They say the 24’s are not selling as much as projected.

 

Could cost have anything to do with that? Where I live, a new street glide is $11K more than a new Goldwing. Im not a GW fan personally but thats a significant difference. I was at the local dealer last weekend to pick up oil, a filter and a few other items so I looked at the new bikes. I like them, I can afford one but wont pay that much for a motorcycle that's that expensive (unless its from the 1940's), depreciating rapidly and needs a ballast added to the front end to solve a stability problem, not to mention the recall that capped the top speed for the instability issue. Im no marketing expert but wouldn't they sell more bikes if they offered ones that cost less and lacked the revmax engine?

 

I heard there are going to be many more job losses at HD. Combination of inflation/economy and the high cost of the new bikes, people can't afford a new HD. The riding season is at it's peak and bikes aren't selling. My dealer has so many new touring bikes on top of their used bikes, they're bursting at the seams. You can barely walk through the dealership. I can see a 10 week shutdown because they'd have no place to store the new inventory.