You keep making ambiguous references to some higher knowledge. Perhaps you can come down from your mountain top for a moment? Let me know what it is about Jim caseys pursuit of greed creating 400,000 jobs that you disagree with ?
I'm not refering to anything you can't read in the news, although I caution take much of that with a grain of salt.
I didn't know Jim Casey. I don't know if he was greedy or pursuing wealth and success. I darn sure know he didn't do it alone for long.
This company wouldn't have grown to what it is if it hadn't kept up with the times. Unfortunately this is the time of corporate piggishness and its fallout. 400,000 minus how many next year? UPS proved year after year that you don't have to be grossly selfish to turn a tremendous profit. Now, you may have to pull the rug out from some folks to put a disgustingly large amount of that profit into the hands of a few. Matching retirement, bonuses, turkeys, incentives. Jobs.
I'm just an extremely ambivalent truck driver. I'm here to learn and get support. If I can help someone else out along the way, that's two more small success stories. I think it's called a soap box, not a mountain. I make mistakes and I'll probably own them before anyone else has a chance to point them out. But I do think it is a mistake to choose to be filthy rich over the people who have helped keep this place a success. Filthy rich is the appropriate term when you got that way because someone else lost something. You can still be very wealthy and keep employees content. Instead, some genious has found a way to cut costs and doesn't consider what it will do to morale. Instead, a group of people seem to think they can synchronize the world of commerece from a room in a building in a city south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Are they gonna be around to play Sim UPS when that technology is in place? That must be what they're hoping. They certainly don't seem concerned about the fallout this restructuring is causing. I have to question the (uh oh here's that word again) integrity of someone sitting on their butt while the decisions they are making are causing tremendous turmoil and hostility. Personally, while I am harassed without cause, my higher-ups are threatened and verbally abused to the point that some really good peeps are gonna be lost soon, some that I can see could one day be key in the continuing success of this company. While people are being promoted to positions they are not qualified to fill because someone thinks they'll make a good lemming. What will happen to them when it becomes clear they will fail in that position? Some will get demoted while others get fired. While I wonder if it's going to happen in my building or somewhere across the country that someone comes in one morning and starts shooting. It is that bad.
I know some of these practices are tried and true. They aren't mixing well with the new plan.
I think it went down like this: Someone attempted to look to the future of the company and largely disregarded the present. But we still have to get through this time. So you made a mistake. It won't hurt anyone to own it. It's not public yet. Fix it before irreparable damage is done. I'm talking weeks. And don't go thinking I'm making threats. I am genuinely concerned about myself, my co-workers, and my company and won't do anything to jeopardize them. I am not a conspiracy theorist. This crap is very real. I am not so far from where it started and it's not nation-wide yet, is it? We need to stop before it spreads. 75% of re-engineering projects fail. I don't WANT it to. I want it to change before it shakes UPS apart. It's just a mistake. No big deal! Just fix it. Everything will work out but we have to pay attention to what are actions are doing today, as well as their impact on the future.
The time for gluttoney is behind us now. It's not a healthy way to live your life.