This reminds me of a story a friend of mine told about his experiences with American telephone systems. Got new management (probably a merger) and they went through making waves and the local manager was an ass.
Had a big meeting about staffing, and my buddy, who isn't afraid of much, poked the guy next to him and said "are you going to tell them or should I" -- guy said you, so Dennis got up and said "I've got some bad news for you. You came in here, threatened everyone, trashed what they were doing, made it impossible to get things done correctly, and everyone put out resumes. The best people are already gone, and everyone else is waiting for a job offer. If you don't remove yourself from your job and get some real management in here, you will be the only person at work" And sat down. Two days later they had a new boss, but the damage was done. As he said, the best people were already gone, and many of the good ones left shortly after that. Management morons who have only a Harvard Business School MBA and no actual (running a machine to generate product) experience are incapable of managing a cow defecating, and will generally destroy a good business long before they learn that every single thing they "learned" in "management school" is bullshit made up to keep people like Hatchet Al well paid, and America de-inductrialized. Note that Hatchet Al singlehandedly destroyed about 90% of American light industry/housewares -- his answer to everything was fire everyone and contract overseas, then leave before the stock price plummeted and the company went bankrupt. He is still used as an example I think, without noting that every single company he "fixed" went out of business within a couple years. On Oct 22, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > Exit interviews are the only way to provide feedback to upper management, > that isn't also invented by them. In other words, if they institute some > changes > that piss-off/demoralize everybody, and half the people leave, they can easily > justify demonizing the 'traitors'. At least, until it's too late and the > company folds. > > In yet other words, if you leave they'd rather think "money-grubbing bastard" > than the potentially-true list of: > > Outsourcing to India makes my job harder, by making my customers > unhappy. > > Your policies are telling me that my family/home life isn't important. > > Your policies are telling me that _I_ am not important. > > ... > > They can still ignore you and make up self-serving crap, but at least you've > tried to help, > on your way out. (Not that they'll thank you for it!) > > It's hard to believe that management always seems to subscribe to the > engineering maxim: > "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is!" But if it weren't for this, old > companies wouldn't die and make > room for new, slightly-smarter ones. > > I was once offered more money to stay after I turned in my notice. I told > him that I > was getting a 2x salary bump, a promotion, and stock options (that eventually > paid > off my mortgage, bought me my Dodge diesel, and my 560SL), and that I didn't > see > how he could counter that. He just said "yeah, I had to try, but I can see > why you're > leaving." > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
