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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Ai yi yi, what a continuing shitshow.
I had breakfast with Harold yesterday and asked him if he was counting down the hours to Aug 31. He said minutes and as far as he's concerned, he's already retired. Apparently, the sole Service guy in Beaufort asked for Harold's help with a warranty issue and Harold told him he had to start discussing this with Harold's replacement. The new Harold has had a year to learn the ropes and still hasn't gotten his feet wet. While at breakfast, Harold got a call from one of the sales guys who was on a rampage. The guy has worked for a year to sell a machine to a transit down south. He'd finally gotten them interested. The transit had agreed to buy one and had the cash. The sales guy submitted an invoice to the parent company in France and the French said, "Nah! Not interested." That was a $250K order out the window for an outfit short on cash. Lastly, I received an email from the new international CEO requesting my attendance at a Zoom meeting. I declined. He emailed back it was required. I responded that I no longer work for you and if my attendance is required, I require $5K for that attendance. Crickets.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Mooresville NC
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Required.
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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They don't have to, these are a part of the Corporate Clothing Allowance..
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: De Soto, MO
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Hilarious that you were told you were "required" to attend. ![]()
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#1236 |
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The real problem started when the owner palmed off the day to day operations to his cousin, Alexandra. She had an MBA in finance. Instead of hiring people with railroad experience, she hired more MBAs, whose mantra is "Business is business". No, jackass. The railroad business is not like other businesses. It's an entity all its own. A Good Ol' Boy network where if you do something to piss off one guy, the entire industry knows about it by the end of the day.
Hiring a former VP from Sony(she did)or a Bean Counter from VW(did that, too)bring nothing to the table. Instead of admitting, "Opps, I screwed up", she doubled down and brought on more of the same. That started the exodus of the experienced people. It used to be that many were willing to stay on past retirement age because it was a great gig. No more. The new hires are usually unqualified. The good ones leave within a year because of the BS and the lousy pay. The new CEO is the first non-family member to hold that position. Will it help? Don't know, don't care.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#1237 |
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Welp, the 4th CFO since 2017 resigned yesterday. I think the guy's name was Rob and what little I heard was that he was an okay guy and was trying to fix things. Got fed up and bailed.
The first CFO, Dave, was a good guy with a conscience. Was told to do some sketchy stuff from France and noped out. Second one, whose name I don't recall, was from Wisconsin. Hated SC and booked when her other half got transferred to Minnesnowta. Diane, lasted the longest, only because she was a blithering idiot and unqualified. I don't know how the hell she was hired as she didn't have an accounting degree. My offer to the clowns about training CS and TS on the manuals was rejected, so I told them to lose my cell number. So, business as usual. ![]()
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Mooresville NC
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Every time I see a new post here I keep thinking there will be an announcement about the company folding or being sold off.
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#1239 |
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Location: Elburn, IL
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I can only hope.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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