Hi Darrin:

Thought you would get a kick out of this little quip:

Dad


A Japanese Company and an American Company had a boat race. The Japanese
Company won by a mile. The Americans hired consultants to determine what
went wrong. The consultants said that the Japanese Company had six rowers
and one manager while the American Company had four managers and two rowers.
The Americans immediately restructured it's team to have three Sr. Managers,
three Managers and one rower. In the rematch, the Japanese Company won by
two miles - The Americans fired the rower.

ole wrote:

Hi Darrin:

Thought you would get a kick out of this little quip:

Dad

A Japanese Company and an American Company had a boat race. The Japanese
Company won by a mile. The Americans hired consultants to determine what
went wrong. The consultants said that the Japanese Company had six rowers
and one manager while the American Company had four managers and two rowers.
The Americans immediately restructured it's team to have three Sr. Managers,
three Managers and one rower. In the rematch, the Japanese Company won by
two miles - The Americans fired the rower.

It couldn't have been an American telephone company. They would have announced
that due to restructuring they projected to lose by three miles, actual
performance exceeded their goals by 33% and declared themselves the winner.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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Nova wrote in
:

A Japanese Company and an American Company had a boat race. The
Japanese Company won by a mile. The Americans hired consultants to
determine what went wrong. The consultants said that the Japanese
Company had six rowers and one manager while the American Company had
four managers and two rowers. The Americans immediately restructured
it's team to have three Sr. Managers, three Managers and one rower.
In the rematch, the Japanese Company won by two miles - The Americans
fired the rower.

It couldn't have been an American telephone company. They would have
announced that due to restructuring they projected to lose by three
miles, actual performance exceeded their goals by 33% and declared
themselves the winner.


Where upon they raised rates, cut retiree benefits, and awarded the
executives additional compensation, retirement, perks, and 'freshened' the
golden parachute clauses.

Isn't it great that Bernie Ebbers is finally going to trial? Did you see
that part where the defense attorney called the ex-CFO a liar? My response
would have been: "Yeah, but he was _your_ liar."

Patriarch,
one of the burned...

On Wed 26 Jan 2005 06:30:24p, Patriarch
wrote in 7.136:

Where upon they raised rates, cut retiree benefits, and awarded the
executives additional compensation, retirement, perks, and 'freshened'
the golden parachute clauses.

Is this where we all start complaining that everything's made overseas
these days and nobody's buying american stuff?

Dan wrote in news:Xns95EAD3B846D5As2scharternet@
69.28.186.121:

On Wed 26 Jan 2005 06:30:24p, Patriarch
wrote in 7.136:

Where upon they raised rates, cut retiree benefits, and awarded the
executives additional compensation, retirement, perks, and 'freshened'
the golden parachute clauses.

Is this where we all start complaining that everything's made overseas
these days and nobody's buying american stuff?


Can if you want. I was commenting on home-grown fraud, greed and
deception.

Patriarch wrote:

Dan wrote in news:Xns95EAD3B846D5As2scharternet@
69.28.186.121:

On Wed 26 Jan 2005 06:30:24p, Patriarch
wrote in 7.136:

Where upon they raised rates, cut retiree benefits, and awarded the
executives additional compensation, retirement, perks, and 'freshened'
the golden parachute clauses.

Is this where we all start complaining that everything's made overseas
these days and nobody's buying american stuff?


Can if you want. I was commenting on home-grown fraud, greed and
deception.

No patent on that, though...

On Wed 26 Jan 2005 10:20:30p, Patriarch
wrote in . 97.136:

Is this where we all start complaining that everything's made overseas
these days and nobody's buying american stuff?


Can if you want. I was commenting on home-grown fraud, greed and
deception.

And I was ruminating on the possibility that those things and the high
percentage of import products might somehow be connected. :-)

Dan wrote in news:Xns95EBB6A3C98C0s2scharternet@
69.28.186.121:

On Wed 26 Jan 2005 10:20:30p, Patriarch
wrote in . 97.136:

Is this where we all start complaining that everything's made overseas
these days and nobody's buying american stuff?


Can if you want. I was commenting on home-grown fraud, greed and
deception.

And I was ruminating on the possibility that those things and the high
percentage of import products might somehow be connected. :-)


They might be, although, in the case I suggested, that need not be a
factor.

There's likely ba$tard$ in every culture...

Patriarch