Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 28, 2024

The last couple of days raise speculation about Rita falling off of the wagon.

Not tell me that budget wents to upgrading her water bottle to wine bottle.

It’s short and to the point. I like it!

WHAT?? no kitten videos???

“But, I got a huge bonus.”

And on the back it says, “KICK ME!”

one of my early jobs, as a teen was walking up and down in front of a diner in a sandwich board. the message, both front and rear, EAT HERE OR WE WILL BOTH STARVE

Worked at a company that worked out this problem in the opposite way. Hired a whole bunch of salesmen, assuming that would multiply sales…

The salesmen were ineffective. Partly because they were poorly trained (did not understand our product), partly because our market was down, and partly because the company was paying bottom dollar so it was getting lackluster efforts. After a few months, our executives decided that we were bleeding money – so they laid off 80% of our engineering and technical staff to balance the books…

Our company product was engineering consulting services. That layoff not only decimated the staff capable of doing the work, but it also included 95% of the certifications and years of experience our engineering and technical staff had. They had cut the highest paid people, who also had the certifications and experience…

The company couldn’t complete existing contracts, and it couldn’t win new contracts. It closed its doors about a year later.

I ran into one of the those management “decision makers” about ten years later… he complained to me how the engineering and technical department had let them down…

Great idea!