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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4241229" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>My experience is that corporations cannot get out of their own way sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Case in point, We had a two man team in Wichita, me and Jim. We were both trained and I was the newest tech, he was my supervisor. </p><p></p><p>Corporate decides to annihilate the OKC and Tulsa offices. Bothe were a mirror image of each other. They had a general manager, a salesman, a secretary, two fire alarm technicians, four burg, CCTV, access, nurse call, etc technicians. They cut all positions but two alarm techs and they quit.</p><p></p><p>Long story short, after drowning in service calls, I was asked to help out OKC and Tulsa and still be on call for Kansas. OKC and Tulsa was not just OKC and Tulsa. It was the whole state from Keyes to MacAllister and Altus AFB to Siloam Springs chicken pluckers.</p><p></p><p>After a year of me putting in 80 hours every week, and crying for help, corporate offered me money to move. A lot of money with the promise of hiring help but after that sweeping of the offices, no one wanted to work for us. I ran the whole state for ten years doing sales, installation and service.</p><p></p><p>Corporate finally came around again and hired a GM and some more techs and merged the building automation group in with me. Or rather I was merged with them into a new office that wasn't a storage unit. Right after they did this, they instituted SAP programming which was an accountant's wet dream but a logistician's nightmare. After seeing customers leave because SAP operations above me weren't done, I couldn't do my job, so I quit.</p><p></p><p>Corporate will do what corporate accountants tell them to do. It isn't about loyalty. </p><p></p><p>Dad told me once, <em>"Son, did you ever stick your hand in a bucket of water? See what the water did? It surrounded you and caressed you. What happened to the water when you pulled your hand out? The water went right back into its original state as if you weren't even there."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 4241229, member: 44288"] My experience is that corporations cannot get out of their own way sometimes. Case in point, We had a two man team in Wichita, me and Jim. We were both trained and I was the newest tech, he was my supervisor. Corporate decides to annihilate the OKC and Tulsa offices. Bothe were a mirror image of each other. They had a general manager, a salesman, a secretary, two fire alarm technicians, four burg, CCTV, access, nurse call, etc technicians. They cut all positions but two alarm techs and they quit. Long story short, after drowning in service calls, I was asked to help out OKC and Tulsa and still be on call for Kansas. OKC and Tulsa was not just OKC and Tulsa. It was the whole state from Keyes to MacAllister and Altus AFB to Siloam Springs chicken pluckers. After a year of me putting in 80 hours every week, and crying for help, corporate offered me money to move. A lot of money with the promise of hiring help but after that sweeping of the offices, no one wanted to work for us. I ran the whole state for ten years doing sales, installation and service. Corporate finally came around again and hired a GM and some more techs and merged the building automation group in with me. Or rather I was merged with them into a new office that wasn't a storage unit. Right after they did this, they instituted SAP programming which was an accountant's wet dream but a logistician's nightmare. After seeing customers leave because SAP operations above me weren't done, I couldn't do my job, so I quit. Corporate will do what corporate accountants tell them to do. It isn't about loyalty. Dad told me once, [I]"Son, did you ever stick your hand in a bucket of water? See what the water did? It surrounded you and caressed you. What happened to the water when you pulled your hand out? The water went right back into its original state as if you weren't even there."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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