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[COMMENT: Speaks for itself....
E. Fox]
Abridged letter from
Dear Employee,
Next week, Congress and the current Administration will determine whether to
provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to help it through one
of the most difficult economic times in our nation's history. Your elected
officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical to our
continuing the progress we began prior to the global financial
crisis......................As an employee, you have a lot at stake and continue
to be one of our most effective and passionat
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I know GM can count on you to have your voice heard.
Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.
Troy Clarke
President
General Motors North America
From Gregory Knox,
“In response to your
request to call legislators and ask for a bailout for the
You are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has bred like
cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades, and whose plague is
now sweeping the nation, awaiting our new "messiah" to wave his magical wand and
make all our problems go away, while at the same time allowing our once great
nation to keep "living the dream"…The dream is over!
The dream
that we can ignore the consumer for years while management myopically focuses on
its personal rewards packages at the same time that our factories have
been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and laziest
entitlement minded "laborers" without paying the price for these atrocities…and
that still the masses will line up to buy our products.
Don't tell me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me of not knowing of what I speak. I have
called on F ord,
Mr.
Clark, the president of General Motors, states:
There is widespread sentiment in this country, our
government and especially in
the media that the
current
crisis is completely
the result of bad management.
It is not…
You're right – it's not JUST management…how about
the electricians who walk around the plants like lords in feudal
times, making people
wait on them for countless hours while they drag ass…so they
can come in on the weekend and make double and triple time…for a
job they easily could
have done within their normal
40 hour week
How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all
kinds of scare tactics…for putting out too many parts on a shift…and for being
too productive (mustn't expose the lazy bums who have been getting overpaid for
decades for their horrific underproduction, must we?!?) Do you really not know
about this stuff?!?
over the last few years …we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps with our
competitors.
What the hell has
The K car vs. the Accord?
; ;
The Pinto vs. the Civic?!?
Do I need to go on? We are living
through the inevitable outcome of the actions of the
I attended an economic summit last week where a brilliant economist, Alan
Beaulieu surprised the crowd when he said he would not have given the banks a
penny of "bailout money". Yes, he sai d, thi s would cause short term problems,
but despite what people like George Bush and Troy Clark would have us believe,
the sun would in fact rise the next day… and something else would happen…where
there had been greedy and sloppy banks new efficient ones would pop up…that is
how a free market system works…it does work…if we would let it work…But for some
reason we are now deciding that the rest of the world is right and that
capitalism doesn't work – that we need the government to step in and "save
us"…save us, hell – we're nationalizing…and unfortunately too many of this once
fine
nations citizens don't even have a clue that this is what's really
happening…but they sure can tell you the stats on their favorite sports
teams…yeah – THAT'S important…
Does it occur to ANYONE that the "competition" has been producing vehicles,
EXTREMELY PROFITABLY, for decades now in this country?...
How can that be??? Let's see…
Fuel efficient…
Listening to customers…
Investing in the proper tooling and automation for the long haul…
Not being too complacent or arrogant to listen to
Dr W Edwards Deming 4 decades ago ever increased productivity through quality,
lean and six sigma plans…
Treating vendors like strategic partners, rather than like "the enemy"…
Efficient front and back offices…
Non union environment…
Again, I could go on and on, but I really wouldn't
be telling anyone anything they really don't already know in their hearts.
I have six children, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of wanting someone
to bail you out of a mess that you have gotten yourself into – my children do
this on a weekly, if not daily basis, as I did at their age. I do for them what
my parents did for me (one of their greatest gifts, by the way) – I make them
stand on their own two feet and accept the consequences of their actions and
work them through. Radical concept, huh…Am I there for them in the
wings? Of course – but
only until such time as they need to be fully on their own as
adults. I don't want to oversimplify a complex situat ion, b ut there certainly
are unmistakable parallels here between the proper role of parenting and
government.
& nbsp;& nbsp; Sorry
– don't cut my head off, I'm just the messenger sharing with you the "bad news"
Gregory J Knox
President
Knox Machinery, Inc.
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