Eric,
Yes you happen to be the biggest at this time, but far from the ONLY! I remember a few others who held the title, Rad, IRM, NSSI, CE, Numanco and the list goes on. Anybody see the common connection? Each one, in their own time, sitting on a staff of a thousand or better, raking in the bucks.
A couple of weeks ago, you make the statement that you didn't want to cheat the companies customers. Maybe you have lost touch with who your customers really are? Although your company sells our services, you don't own the product! As a recruiter, or a salesman by another name, you should remember which customers to put first, the others didn't!
The Techs, The Techs, The Techs! It always seems like the best excuse! Accountable and Responsible, it always seems to be a one sided concept, directed at the Technicians. You quote the Techs as being proffessionals, yet you don't want to hear anything they have to say! I've heard some techs tell me about the pre-departure phone calls of cancelled jobs, eight week outages with pan out to four weeks of work and the memories of oversea's jobs that never materialized! Sometime, one has to wonder if they weren't part of staffing game, used to manipulate the other players, usually at their own expense! Why don't you put it in WRITTING? Why hesitate, if your honestly selling something, there shouldn't be any resistance to a written contract, after all it protects you also!
As far as the Techs yelling about past mistakes, like you said, your company does have to prove itself! Like your company, sometimes it takes a long time! That seems rather rediculous to hold a grudge that long. Maybe they have a computer in front of them, such as yourself, and they can archieve your companies past performance! Of course there entries would be generic in nature! It could show past performance rating, written by people you don't know, or never worked for. Quit the job, for returning home to be with you family member, who is in the hospital. No Show, due to home front factors requiring your immediate attention. It's much easier and saves a lot of hard drive space, if you just enter generic codes, such as Quit, No Show, Fired!
How about the company representatives? You know the management types? You also know the ones I'm talking about! Funny how a techs name will surface a couple of times, in the office, and they are considered a problem child. The hundreds of phone calls on the disfunctional manager seem to be overlooked! I assume that being a manager, renders some form of amnesty in all cases! Again, no Responsibility or Accountability! Probably just horror stories. RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
The speculated, or soon to be finalized purchase of number two, poses some interesting concepts. You'll own the contracts, but not the people! I'm wondering what is going to happen to your loyal followers? Afterall, the ones loyal to you, aren't really the customers your interested in, it's the ones that aren't working for you that hold the most value! Like you said, if it weren't for the competition, you wouldn't have anywhere to recruit from! Another interesting concept will be the staffing commitments. After all, if there's no competition, who, or what can you blame? If even a small number of Technicians refuse to join your club and your company doesn't meet it's staffing commitments, what message will that send? It will be interesting!
I got to fly, I'm working for the other Guy, RG!
