Chris,
I agree completely but I think I've got a solution - get some venture capitalists to back us - probably take about a $100M - start a new company where we get paid to stay home - short our current employers stock - wait about 3 months and when our previous employers stock starts to fall we buy it - fire the managers and go back to work at our old companies.
Forget it, Sh**, Da**, Fu** we're going to need new managers - managers can't live with them, can't shoot em.
Paul Hawco
Mechanical Engineer
... technically illiterate management jumping on a bandwagon and the same technically illiterate management buying labor strictly based on cost. The thinking goes, 'Competition is offshoring jobs, therefore we have to offshore jobs. We're paying our staff $50/hr; offshore says they pay $25/hr therefore the bottom line demands we offshore jobs.' Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. When these same companies start outsourcing the marketing VP positions because offshore marketing VP's cost less, I'll think about changing my mind on it all.
Management in this country has been jumping from trend to trend for 25
years. Thinks about it--MBO, quality circles, ISO9000, supply side,
Taguchi, leveraged buyouts, the Japanese model, six sigma, there must
be hundreds. But we still have recessions, savings and loan crises,
Enron, irrational exuberance, panic selling and airline management too
stupid to hedge their fuel costs when there's a mid-east war. Andrew
Carnegie and John D Rockefeller may have been robber barons, but at
least they knew that you can't build something lasting by following
management trends.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania1864)
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