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Originally Posted by cheesy

OH. MY. GOD.

The idiots mounted four wheels on a loader backwards.


Jason's Super Secret Contact(Dean)sent him this pic this morning and J forwarded it to me. We are supposed to get a video of them trying to put it on track later today. I foresee an utter failure as I don't think the loader will even steer.


I guess the Hits May Keep On Coming.

Oh. Now this is impressive. My first question would be, "Who took the wheels off for mounting the new tires?" Stunned. That person in the room?

[cheesy]

Hola. Back from a 15 day, 4200 mile drive through the southwest, the Colorado Rockies, and the Midwest prairie. And I have gossip.

First off, the remaining MTM sales guys have been challenging the CEO, who is leaving at the end of the year. A while back I mentioned that he slapped a $1200 charge on rail puller schools and the major railroads gave us a roaring "Fcuk You". We kinda, sorta lost that business as every BNSF welding truck I saw in Arizona and New Mexico had brand new Simplex pullers on their welding trucks.
Well, my buddy Keith decided to give the middle finger to the CEO regarding the $1200 charge for schools and put on a couple at the old fee of $0. He ended up selling 23 pullers at $21K each. After that, the CEO threatened to fire Keith while at a trade show, but he did that in front of the guys he sold the pullers to and while Keith was in the process of selling some more equipment to them. Per Keith, the customer, who is 6' 8" and 300 lbs, lightly placed his hands on the CEO's shoulders and told him to get lost and that he wasn't long for the world if messed with Keith.

In other news, it looks like the Mothership may really be getting ready to sell the company. They have emptied the European warehouses and dumped tons of inventory on Beaufort to make Europe look busy, even though most of the factories are shut down or running with a skeleton crew. We call it 'polishing a turd'. Us old farts on the sidelines eating popcorn are figuring it will be sold to a private equity firm, its assets sold to the highest bidder, and be swept under the rug. Lately, when the MTM guys call to get price and availability for a potential sale, all they get is "What's the return on investment?" A happy customer that continues to buy from us in the long term does not seem to be the right answer anymore.

Lastly, when the CEO announced he was leaving, France asked Al and Harold to come back until the end of the year. Both said, "Who is this?" and hung up.

[TominMO]

Good stuff!

[tknj99]

I think every bean counter deserves a 300 pound burly guy's hand on their shoulder

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Bean counters- the bane of American Industry.

[cheesy]

Welp, it took them 11 months but they finally pulled the plug on my company email account. Yay!

[cheesy]

Got a call the other day. I didn't recognize the area code, so I let it go to voicemail. Checked it later in the day and it was a customer I hadn't spoken with for quite a while. He was having problems with his 360.

I called the next morning for grins and found out that he'd called Beaufort the day before he called me. He was told someone would call him back shortly. I don't when shortly is, but no one got back to him within 24 hours. One of his cohorts told him to call me, not knowing I was retired.

Luckily, he was able to troubleshoot and correct the issue without my help so I just let him rant about Beaufort. When I could get a word in, I said why do you think I retired and Jason quit?

I think it was Charlie The Stupid in CS that he spoke with. Being more competent than Charlie is a pretty low bar but anyone Beaufort hires for CS either leaves when they see how screwed up things are or make Charlie look like a Rhodes Scholar, so they are shown the door. I spoke with both Brianna and LuAnn before they got canned. I don't think there was a functioning braincell between the two of them.

So much fun.