Corning was a company who would hire your family if you were there and worked many years, They took care of their people. In hard times they would let you borrow money to pay your bills and pay back when you were capable.
Now you have to take a test and be a rocket scientist in order to get into there to be a utility worker. Which is stupid, there are people out there that need a job and don't have a genius IQ who can put their back into their work and make as much as an improvement as anyone.
What happened to the Corning I worked for?? Yeah, I pasted their test but I know many who scored low and were truned away. Their loss and another companies gain.

Corning is an industry leader in display components. It has a good employee’s benefits package. The people who I work with are friendly and cooperative. Employment includes a tremendous benefits package that's unrivaled by any in the industry. In my job I'm always working with cutting-edge technology that you can't find anywhere else in the world. In short, I love my job.

If you are not a very self driven and focused individual you can flounder at Corning. Like many other companies, advancement at Corning seems to depend at least as much on politics as it does on evading layoffs. Upper management gives priority to their chosen ones and the people with no interaction with senior management get laid off.

Just read in the newspaper on the 3500 layoffs -- seems like mostly manufacturing jobs -- but the time this is over all manufacturingg would have moved to China or India ...