Pitting the Owner

The BBQ Pit
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… of the company, that is. In one month’s time, he’ll visit us and let us know what our direction is going to be to pull the company out of the tailspin into which he put us a year ago by making us build a third, useless factory when we didn’t have the sales to justify it, or the realistic possibility of increasing sales 20% in THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING RECESSION!

So how does the tailspin start? Fire the president of the company, the guy who took us from unprofitability to profitability in three years without sales increasing, solely through improved productivity; the guy who generated so much goodwill among the employees that the local electrical workers union at both facilities simple stopped even trying to have unionization votes because they lost the last one so badly; the guy who maxed out our investments on new products so that we could ride the wave when we finally pulled out of the recession and things heated up again. Offer him a shitty severance package, and don’t even fire him yourself–instead, let your 24 year old son do it as he tells you that he’ll be the new chairman of the company.

So now management has to wait a month to find out who’ll get the axe next–the now-redundant VP of Finance (the parent company’s Finance department can handle us), the Manager of the IT department (we’ll go back to having one of the parent company’s guys on location, and they’ll do all maintenance and development), the Marketing department entire, which has been ordered already to stop all new product development (which the parent company will provide).

HOW ABOUT SELLING THE THIRD FUCKING FACTORY THAT’S OPERATING AT MINIMAL CAPACITY AND IS SUCKING OUR BLOOD?

Nope, can’t do that–then the owner’s gamble on the recession ending early would be… lost. Can’t have that.

Thank God I’m completely juiced on Wellbutrin right now (for quitting smoking–the anti-depressant side is just a welcome two-fer).

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I would love to have seen the above rant if you weren’t stoned.

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Actually, the Wellbutrin is pretty interesting. I feel no different than before, but there’s a floor on how much anxiety I can feel. I’m not happier than I was–I just can’t get depressed about anything. Angry, yes, at seeing a fundamentally healthy company dismantled for the owner’s ego, but not really depressed.

Nic-fit, you have no power over me!

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Sorry about the company. Congrats on the quitting smoking.

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:rolleyes:

Wellbutrin dosn’t make you “stoned” it is an antidepressant.

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I dunno, I felt pretty good taking it. Took the edge off, as they say on Southpark.
In favor of your argument, it took morphine for three days to get me to quit. Maybe hospitals don’t suck as much as I thought…