Posted on 01/21/2002 12:57:02 AM PST by Timesink
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:03:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Your choice is two-fold: take your experience and move to another company (before it's too late), or hope that your company's management is prescient enough to find other sources of revenue.
A lesson that everybody needs to learn in today's economy is that to survive and prosper, one must be nimble and flexible. I work in Texas, which is a right to work state. For the past three years, I've enjoyed the best job situation of my entire life (Thank You, God!), and hopefully it will last another 10-15 years. However, I understand that it could end tomorrow. That being the case, I stay up with the local job market, and keep networking should that worst case scenario occur.
It appears to me that you have readily transferable skills. Take advantage of that, and put those assets to work for YOU!
LOL, I have been calling it that for 20 years, and have not shopped there for about that long. Now Wal Mart needs to go down, can't stand that place either. I will stick with Mom and Pop stores where they know your name when you walk in!!
The fact that they ultimately honored it -- and, paid the ten-times penalty required by Michigan law -- did not in any way diminish my recognition of the fact that dealing with KMart means dealing with an adversary. If no one else has it, and I need it, I'll get it from the adversary. Otherwise, they can go pound sand. And I must say it looks like they're getting a lot of practice in that endeavor as of late.
That Mather Stupert is taking it on the chin is merely the icing on the cake. :)
Me Too! Wal-Mart is ruining small towns across America. I despise both Wal-Mart & K-Mart. I'll pay a little more if I have to, but the small stores are better.
PS: Reminds me of that Alan Jackson song about the "Little Man"
From today's Wall Street Journal (registration may be required):
Kmart, Regulators Launch Probe into Retailer's Accounting Practices
TROY, Mich. -- Kmart Corp. said Friday that it has begun an investigation after receiving an anonymous letter claiming to be from employees that expressed concern about unspecified accounting matters.
The U.S.'s third-biggest discount retailer, which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this week, said that it contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission and its own investigation team about the letter and that it is cooperating with the regulatory agency.
The disclosure comes amid heightened sensitivity about accounting issues in the wake of the collapse of the energy trader Enron Corp.
I eagerly await the Daschle-Waxman-Bonior inquisition into Kmart. :-)
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