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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 54576"><p>Psstdrvr</p><p></p><p>My goodness. I've heard calls to take action, but never <em>that</em> drastic of action. I have no proof that those kind in management don't exist, but the select few I see and deal with daily appear to be working extremely hard. Like Water302 posted, one quarter's numbers won't torpedo the whole ship under. Don't start selling. Unless of course your looking to score some quick cash to buy a vowel or two for that very descriptive name. Yeah I know...that's a cheap shot...I couldn't resist though...</p><p></p><p>Now the really high up hotshots? That's where some answers need to come from as to the speculation about what caused the shortfall in earnings. And after chatting with drivers I know from the other buildings that have undergone the rollover to PAS/EDD I've got a good idea why. The new system that was billed as the miraculous cost-cutting yet more efficient service enhancing cure-all has failed to live up to all it's hype and hasn't delivered the savings that Corporate insisted it would create, and now the front-line management is getting squeezed for answers why. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the suits in Atlanta started believing thier own propaganda and built these percieved bundles of money saved from EDD into the earnings projections that they passed along to the Wall Street crowd. </p><p></p><p>It wouldn't be the first time a boardroom of MBA's had become so diluted in thier own hubris that it distorted them from the reality of what was actually happening outside the ivory towers. Probably not the last time either. I'm sure it will be the "exhorbitant labor cost burden" that is just the allmighty evil to the poor and downtrodden shareholders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 54576"] Psstdrvr My goodness. I've heard calls to take action, but never [I]that[/I] drastic of action. I have no proof that those kind in management don't exist, but the select few I see and deal with daily appear to be working extremely hard. Like Water302 posted, one quarter's numbers won't torpedo the whole ship under. Don't start selling. Unless of course your looking to score some quick cash to buy a vowel or two for that very descriptive name. Yeah I know...that's a cheap shot...I couldn't resist though... Now the really high up hotshots? That's where some answers need to come from as to the speculation about what caused the shortfall in earnings. And after chatting with drivers I know from the other buildings that have undergone the rollover to PAS/EDD I've got a good idea why. The new system that was billed as the miraculous cost-cutting yet more efficient service enhancing cure-all has failed to live up to all it's hype and hasn't delivered the savings that Corporate insisted it would create, and now the front-line management is getting squeezed for answers why. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the suits in Atlanta started believing thier own propaganda and built these percieved bundles of money saved from EDD into the earnings projections that they passed along to the Wall Street crowd. It wouldn't be the first time a boardroom of MBA's had become so diluted in thier own hubris that it distorted them from the reality of what was actually happening outside the ivory towers. Probably not the last time either. I'm sure it will be the "exhorbitant labor cost burden" that is just the allmighty evil to the poor and downtrodden shareholders. [/QUOTE]
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