New GM chief-I don't know anything about cars

[Henry Hawk]

disregard my previous post.........I get it now.

(I did not read who started the post...oops)

[Gardengirl]

Exterm,

What do YOU know? I know plenty more than you and that's obvious.

[Freethinker]

It DOES matter when you have management that knows next to nothing about the product... It matters a lot.

If you think it doesn't matter, then go back in time to when management came from employees who proved their worth and worked their way to the top, and realize that companies were fiscally healthier back then.

Now, board managements bring in whiz kids from some other industry, and think they can work magic with another industry they know nothing about.

You let the accountants do accounting. You do not ask an accountant for advice about how to cut costs. He'll show you on paper where all the money is flowing out, but then, he won't understand WHY it may be crucial for that sector of money to be flowing out, to protect even more flows of money from exiting the building.

Let me give you one example... One of the things I saw happen repeatedly was new management coming in, and immediately setting about to cut costs.

Now when you choose a vendor, these are the top three considerations, and in this order EXACTLY:

1- Quality
2- Service
3- Price

What happened over the past couple of decades is that seasoned and experienced employees were run off, because hey, no one is that important to the company. ANYBODY can figure this stuff out.

And some managements started demanding lowest bids only, without allowing for quality or service. This is STILL going on, and it is very dangerous. You get corrupted machinery and transport lines, and on and on... which then causes serious maintenance problems, and ends up costing the company more in the end... and then management decides to piecemeal sell the problems to some poor independent smuck with little capital, who then ends up losing employees when the corrupted machinery fails in a major way and people end up dead.

THIS is what is wrong with corporate America today. Enough is enough. Get rid of the money-grubbing idiots who think they can run a business they have no experience with at the most basic levels.

[dan foster]

Exterm,

What do YOU know? I know plenty more than you and that's obvious.

Not the way I see it.

[Exterminator]

Exterm,

What do YOU know? I know plenty more than you and that's obvious.

About what...having babies?