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NY Tel
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Re: Celebrating "Labor"...?

said by dellsweig:

A MODERN PARABLE .

A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.....On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US . The last quarter's results:
TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.
Ford folks are still scratching their heads.
IF THIS WAS NOT TRUE, IT MIGHT BE FUNNY
It is not funny but as I have discovered that is the way we (our corporate CEO's) have chosen to run their companies with good-old-boy relationships lining each other's pockets.
Did Chrysler have to hire the guy from Home Depot after he "allegedly" almost trashed the morale and profitability of that company? NO, but they did.
I worked for company once and every year they would try a different tactic when the previous one wouldn't work and each September 30th they would fire massive amounts of people so they could fund the "new initiative" for next year, never learning from the previous year's mistakes.

I still say history repeats itself and this is the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire just in a different latitude and longitude.
We even have the LEAD problem except not in our aqueducts....

amigo_boy

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said by NY Tel:

It is not funny but as I have discovered that is the way we (our corporate CEO's) have chosen to run their companies with good-old-boy relationships lining each other's pockets.
Also keep in mind that some of these corporations have private agreements not to hire each other's employees. Palm and Apple (if I recall correctly) were recently in the news about this.

Executives move around with soft landings based upon who they know (and private deals to pay off non-compete agreements). But, if you're part of the rank-and-file you'll never be considered (as the two corporations strike a détente in the interest of keeping labor costs low).

Mark

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