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| metlhead:
Anyone else out here to kill geese this morning? |
| jackelope:
Hopefully the National forest is still open for fun this summer and fall. Also hopefully it doesn’t all burn to the ground. |
| CarbonHunter:
--- Quote from: baldopepper on February 14, 2025, 10:52:22 PM ---I was employed several years ago by a fairly large, international company with offices literally around the world.. With profits down two years in a row, a decision was made to cut costs by closing some offices and letting people go. They offered what they called an early retirement offer to nearly every employee. 6 months pay and 6 months health insurance coverage. Problem was that every good employee who knew they could easily find employment (mostly with competitors) were the ones who took the offer. (Myself included) That was not enough so.they laid off another large group starting with the newest employees and worked their way up to reach their goal This left them with a management group who should have been selectively let go for poor preformance. Additionally the younger ones who made the cut were concerned about future cut backs and most of the better ones started immediately looking elsewhere..Company never really recovered, sold off some divisions and is now a shadow of its old self. Their record has made it difficult to recruit top people. Hope we're not seeing that same type thing in our government. --- End quote --- I think you will see a lot of the good government works go to private contractors and make a ton of money selling the same services they were performing back to the government. Likewise the government won’t be properly staffed to see how the private sector is fleecing the government. You thought $40k hammers were bad just wait until this generation of federal workers buy $400k “hammers” and they show up with a squeaky rubber head and a plastic handle. Baldopepper I am currently in a situation with my employer that you were in several years ago. Big private equity money came in and bought the company I worked for and started making a bunch of changes to increase value so they can resell their investment in a couple years. Now 2 years in the company value is tanking and the people are leaving. They can no longer attract decent talent and every KPI is going in the wrong direction. 2 weeks ago they increased prices dramatically after last year saying don’t lose on price. Now they are going to be the highest priced business in the field in our area. And I was told that I am required to maintain the margins I was getting before the 50% price hike. (They inflated the cost of labor and materials to the branches to cover corporate expenses) Well last night I just ironed out the details of the offer letter I should be receiving next week to go to a competitor. Hoping for the best from a fresh start. |
| CarbonHunter:
--- Quote from: jackelope on February 15, 2025, 06:51:41 AM ---Hopefully the National forest is still open for fun this summer and fall. Also hopefully it doesn’t all burn to the ground. --- End quote --- I’m hoping there is no attempts to sell our government land or lease it to a corporation that prevents us from using it. We all know there is some in government who feel we should sell it and they are typically Republicans. |
| Buckhunter24:
--- Quote from: dwils233 on February 14, 2025, 09:36:32 PM --- --- Quote from: Buckhunter24 on February 14, 2025, 07:10:15 PM --- --- Quote from: addicted1 on February 14, 2025, 06:57:18 PM --- --- Quote from: MADMAX on February 14, 2025, 05:45:41 PM --- --- Quote from: CarbonHunter on February 14, 2025, 05:29:00 PM ---I saw earlier today that the US Forest Service seams to be the hardest hit with today’s terminations. Honestly we were finally starting to see some actual management of our forests since Clinton stopped logging and I think these across the board actions will set forest management back even further. --- End quote --- Give it some time I believe Trump will be directing his team to start doing some realignments, restructuring and new hiring --- End quote --- Fat chance, most areas have lost a significant portion of their workforce that had the boots on the ground. To think this will get turned around anytime soon beyond laughable. The terminations will continue through next week, for an agency that was already lean. Oh well what’s a few more people to add to Washington homeless population. --- End quote --- Ramp up the cut then we can look at bringing back some employees. --- End quote --- That's not realistic. That's like having a doctor tell the surgeon to just start pulling out organs and well see how it goes during the post-surgery recovery. Targeted cuts might have been productive AFTER auditing and understanding the impact. Broad base decimation doesn't actually protect the financial and resource interests of our country. That's why you don't just have some random person come in and fire your IT staff to save money... System dependency and vitality. Musk did the same process at Twitter. Market cap went from 44b to 9b. It doesn't make operational sense or business sense --- End quote --- No doubt it seems bass ackwards. I would have much rather seen the red tape reduced. Its easy to feel frustrated with the majority of the FS districts production. There are a handful of districts that have been headed in a good direction, I sure hope they can maintain it. |
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