Walmart vs. Costco - An interesting comparison - Page 3

piece-itpete · #21 06-17-2013, 03:20 PM

So if they lost business - it wouldn't matter?

Pete

BlueStreak · #22 06-17-2013, 03:58 PM

What do they do, Pete? Do they straighten up and treat people better when they lose business? Or do they layoff, cut more and/or shutdown altogether?

Rarely, do these people accept resposibility for a businesses failure. It's darn near always someone elses fault. You haven't seen that? We've all watched these people get rewarded for driving a business into bankruptcy. I watched a company I used to work for do that. The guy drove us $3,000,000,000 (NINE zeros!) into debt and bankruptcy court. Plants across the country got shut down, thousands lost their jobs......The board paid him $14,000,000, then "asked" him to leave.

Woo. I wish someone would "punish" me like that.

Dave

Rex E. · #23 06-17-2013, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

What do they do, Pete? Do they straighten up and treat people better when they lose business? Or do they layoff, cut more and/or shutdown altogether?

Rarely, do these people accept resposibility for a businesses failure. It's darn near always someone elses fault. You haven't seen that? We've all watched these people get rewarded for driving a business into bankruptcy. I watched a company I used to work for do that. The guy drove us $3,000,000,000 (NINE zeros!) into debt and bankruptcy court. Plants across the country got shut down, thousands lost their jobs......The board paid him $14,000,000, then "asked" him to leave.

Woo. I wish someone would "punish" me like that.

Dave

No sh!t, just be late four times and see what happens...I learned years ago on time meant 20 minutes early

mpholland · #24 06-17-2013, 08:37 PM

I normally get to work at least 20 minutes early, but I like to bullshit with my boss while I drink a cup of coffee in the morning. I also travel over the I-5 bridge from OR to WA on my way to work and you never know when there will be a bridge lift. I am fortunate to be one of those guys that make a decent living and like my job. Not getting rich by any means, but there is more to a job than money. I usually only make about 50K, but I have a 4-10 Mon-Thur shift from 5am-3:30pm so I miss the heavy traffic. Employer pays 80% of the premiums for a much better than average med/den/vis package. It is a small company, there are only about 35 total employees and we all get along. It is almost like another family away from home.

bobabode · #25 06-17-2013, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

In truth I would wait for them to turn around.

My thoughts exactly.

Rex E. · #26 06-17-2013, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mpholland

I normally get to work at least 20 minutes early, but I like to bullshit with my boss while I drink a cup of coffee in the morning. I also travel over the I-5 bridge from OR to WA on my way to work and you never know when there will be a bridge lift. I am fortunate to be one of those guys that make a decent living and like my job. Not getting rich by any means, but there is more to a job than money. I usually only make about 50K, but I have a 4-10 Mon-Thur shift from 5am-3:30pm so I miss the heavy traffic. Employer pays 80% of the premiums for a much better than average med/den/vis package. It is a small company, there are only about 35 total employees and we all get along. It is almost like another family away from home.

Are they hiring?

I'd be more than happy to come back up that way.

Zeke · #27 06-18-2013, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Rex E.

Are they hiring?

I'd be more than happy to come back up that way.

Same, here.

merrylander · #28 06-18-2013, 07:01 AM

I am just happy that I once worked for an honest company that still pays my pension. In fact they just published pictures of Florence and I on our wedding day and as we are now with our two granddaughters standing on our deck in the pensioners magazine. I imagine that the actuaries are shaking their heads as I retired in 1983 at 52, thirty years ago. Being out of the rat race is just fine.

BlueStreak · #29 06-18-2013, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by mpholland

I normally get to work at least 20 minutes early, but I like to bullshit with my boss while I drink a cup of coffee in the morning. I also travel over the I-5 bridge from OR to WA on my way to work and you never know when there will be a bridge lift. I am fortunate to be one of those guys that make a decent living and like my job. Not getting rich by any means, but there is more to a job than money. I usually only make about 50K, but I have a 4-10 Mon-Thur shift from 5am-3:30pm so I miss the heavy traffic. Employer pays 80% of the premiums for a much better than average med/den/vis package. It is a small company, there are only about 35 total employees and we all get along. It is almost like another family away from home.

Awesome. Good for you.

So, far I have yet to have any problems with my immediate bosses at my current job. It's the ones above them. They almost seem aloof and disconnected. Every now and then they see the numbers and have a fit. Then, the solutions they come up with have nothing to do with the real problems. I don't get it. These guys just will not get on anyone to do their job. When they do get on someone, it's usually the wrong person. They'll get on the guy that performs every day, but slips up once. The person leaning on the post, scratching his butt, they'll walk past and say "Hi, hows it goin'?" ten times a day and do nothing. They don't have a union to contend with, it's a "Right to Work" state, so...........

It wasn't like this at all when I started there in 2003. I don't know what happened, but it can't be good.

The job I had before this one is the one I mentioned earlier. I LOVED that job, and what happened there really left me bitter, and opened my eyes to a lot. We had that place tuned like an Indy racer. Constantly getting industry awards for quality and efficiency, but the big whigs in Southfield, Michigan made a fugging mess of it and ran the corporation into the toilet wrecklessly buying up other companies with heavy debt and asbestos liabilities, just to pump up sales volume. "10 Billion by 2002" was the mantra..........shit. What made it worse was the constant and blatant LIES. "Everythings fine, nothing to worry about."....as I'm following the saga in the financial and industry news online and watching the utter stupidity run out of control. GAW!!!!!!

Anyhow; Rant over.

Carry on.

Dave

d-ray657 · #30 06-18-2013, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by mpholland

I normally get to work at least 20 minutes early, but I like to bullshit with my boss while I drink a cup of coffee in the morning. I also travel over the I-5 bridge from OR to WA on my way to work and you never know when there will be a bridge lift. I am fortunate to be one of those guys that make a decent living and like my job. Not getting rich by any means, but there is more to a job than money. I usually only make about 50K, but I have a 4-10 Mon-Thur shift from 5am-3:30pm so I miss the heavy traffic. Employer pays 80% of the premiums for a much better than average med/den/vis package. It is a small company, there are only about 35 total employees and we all get along. It is almost like another family away from home.

I think that is one of the keys to your satisfaction. Not big enough for the corporate BS.

Regards,

D-Ray