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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DCAMM94 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January/29/2014 at 08:21
Mornin' Gents.  One more deposition, and then prep for some settlement conferences.  Yippee.
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Mornin' all, 14* here on the way to 28* another day in paradise.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote budperm Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January/30/2014 at 07:17
Wait a minute!!!!  thats not RIGHT!!!
 
It's  4°F right now here.  How'd you manage to be 10 degrees warmer!!!!
 
Supposed to warm slowly into the low 40s by Saturday.... (normal seasonal temp) Yippee
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Will be windy and 56F today. You know what that means, High fire danger. There were fires scatered all over yesterday. One burned a mile N of the office It took out 2 structures. Then Friday, Ta da another plunge. Best part is a 20% chance for precipitation. Of course that is 80% of no precipitation. Rain Snow or Ice any type of mosture would be nice.
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yep the apple cart has been upset....
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Well surprise surprise surprise....
 
25F and rising!!!!  Yippee  Yippee  Yippee
 
Unfortunately its pretty overcast so no sunbathing today....
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Morning all
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Howdy.
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back to work.  Been closed the last couple days
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Day three of rain here.
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How'd the area do?
 
And thats no excuse you have a PC at home...
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WE got about 2-3" of ice.
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And total chaos ensued.....  Were there any rioting, pilfering or looting?  Baltimore had that happen severa lyears ago when hit by 18"+ unexpectedly....
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no nothing crazy like that.  just  a bunch of improvised sleding on some homemade sleds.
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Any type of moisture would be good. Starting the year with this deficit and it should be the wet season. I does not look good for this spring. April with the wind is the worst wildfire danger around here.
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Maybe Ed could do an Incan rain dance
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Maybe. I have heard the rumor that he spends a lot of time in the can.  Loco
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Thunder God?   Laugh
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Well if that don't beat all...
 
Got finish with a visit from my Engineering manager.  Although we at CDIY (DeWalt) had a banner yeaer and broke all sales records it seems our greedy mergers and acquisitions obsessed CEO and team "F"ed up to the tune of 130 million on one of their acquisitions.... 
 
So what does this mean? you might ask....
 
They just froze all hiring, promotions, raises and capital expenditures for 6 months....
I now have to ask permission to buy thing over $150 no matter how mission critical...Loco
 
  I have been afraid of this since the merger....  Stanley across all their business units are barely profittable running a lowly 2-4% margin...  Dewalt 2013 margin was 15%.  Stanley management has been continueously changing our structure to emulate theirs' and severely running up our overheads.  They have increased the management team by over 20%, tripled the size of the accounting department and gone from division based budgets and accounting to individual accounts for every single Project Engineer!  micro-management at its best and we still turned a 15% profit.  Now we have to take up the slack for their micro-management as well as their mis-management.
 
Never let a weaker company take charge of a stronger one.....it's a BAD recipe!!!
 
 
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Yeah, too be sure. Too many bean counters is what screwed up (partially) my Dismal career.
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