[Green Moses]

The business ideas I was speaking about was not about Makiney's newly invented hair spray, which I heard is selling way cheap at Aldi's.

It is this: Forcing seasoned managers into misery so they quit. I know, they should leave anyways to keep their sanity, but they too have bills and kids to pay for. A job is a job and everyone needs one.

So let me get this straight, upper management: You got your positions because we all quit. Our so called work/life balance sucked and we were worked like dogs. Not even pure bred dogs, but like mutts. Some of our significant others even gave us ultimatums. So while everyone quit, a couple veteran managers, somehow thought the situation would get better and stuck around. For a company that is experiencing 75% turnover, to have managers with 6 or more years experience stick with the company is something positive. But the new management that took our shitty positions thinks opposite? Why run managers out and replace them with new guys who will either quit in 6 months or screw up all account relationships because they don't know how to say "No" in a nice way.

I would understand the "ouster" if the managers lost money for the company or lost large accounts, but this doesn't seem to be the case. To threaten a manager by saying, "You won't get anymore MT's if this one quits!" is ridiculous. How is a manager supposed to shape a new college grad, who has worked part-time their whole life and have never set their alarm before 9 a.m. Not to mention all the bong hits and hookah circles that are replaced by a sporadic lunch one week and another the next. These MT's are forced to work extensive hours, to which they aren't accustomed too, and endure stress levels because this "imaginary warehouse" that houses all these unlimited cars that Mak or DK say "Don't worry, we'll get you cars."

Managing people is truly an art, but changing their up-bringing by fooling them that 52+ hours a week is normal is almost impossible. I know personally growing up, my father worked 7 to 3. He was home at 3:30 monday thru friday. I knew that by 3:30 I better have my girlfriends dressed and out the door or else he was going to try to get to 3rd base with them too.

Upper management should feel lucky that some managers do try to make a career out of working in a sweat shop. Not threaten them with no help if another MT quits. And what adds salt to the wound is acting like you are the "Chosen One" because you now have the positions everyone had quit. And no, this message is not directed to the new VP that replaced ST. I don't know him and I heard he got rid of the 57 conference calls and 89 internal memos that us ex-eracer's all dreaded. If anything more power to him. Now get rid of Makiney! If you thought Shawn Green was a micro-machine to get rid of, Mak is his mini-me. I know because I grew up with them.

This message was approved by me and all my fellow ex-eracers.