I agree.Definitely time for a hanging Chad! Whoops,I
mean hanging,Chad! OK,no more Florida jokes.I`m sorry.
--- Chad Evans <hemidak@Msn.com> wrote:
> we ought to find eaton and string him up by his
> balls!! sorry had to get
> that off my chest.
>
> hemidak@msn.com
>
>
> >From: Stlaurent Mr Steven
> <STLAURENTS@mctssa.usmc.mil>
> >Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> >To: "'dakota-truck@buffnet.net'"
> <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> >Subject: DML: RE: DC Troubles finally make major
> headlines
> >Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:32:20 -0800
> >
> >Just about what everyone was saying.
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> >From: dakotamike@netzero.net
> [mailto:dakotamike@netzero.net]
> >Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:38 AM
> >To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> >Subject: DML: DC Troubles finally make major
> headlines
> >
> >Hey folks,
> >
> >Just found this at ABCNEWS, one of the headline
> buisness/tech news
> >lines. Time for us to start applying the
> pressure...
> >
> > Far from a 'Merger of Equals'
> >- It was supposed to be a perfect union of
> carmakers.
> >
> >
> >
> >When the two companies merged in 1998, Daimler
> Chairman Juergen
> >Schrempp promised a "merger of equals." But it
> wasn't long before
> >Chrysler executives complained the bullheaded
> Germans wouldn't listen
> >to the Americans.
> >"We don't demand things of people; we seek people's
> cooperation,"
> >says Gerald Meyers, former chairman of American
> Motors and now a
> >professor at the University of Michigan business
> school. "These two
> >cultures were therefore bound to collide."
> >
> >And collide they did.
> >
> >Americans Feel Deceived
> >
> >From the beginning, the high command in Stuttgart
> issued orders to
> >Detroit about everything from where the
> headquarters would be located
> >(Germany) to what kind of business cards would be
> used.
> >
> >The relationship began to fall apart quickly. Since
> the merger, the
> >company has lost nearly half its value. Somebody
> had to go, and it
> >was the Americans. Daimler eventually sent in a
> German management
> >team.
> >
> >Schremp's promise of a "merger of equals" had been
> fiction, and he
> >even admits as much. He told the Financial Times
> that if he had been
> >honest with the Americans about German dominance
> before the merger,
> >they never would have made a deal.
> >
> >So what was the reaction at Chrysler?
> >
> >"One of people who'd been deceived," says Meyers.
> "People who'd been
> >hoodwinked. This wasn't just a small, a small
> decision. This was just
> >plain dishonest."
> >
> >The two cultures had never been compatible. Take
> the Daimler annual
> >meeting, where stockholders are fed sausages and
> dumplings. In
> >Germany, there's more attention paid to wining and
> dining the
> >shareholders than to giving them precise
> information.
> >
> >That's the reason Kirk Kerkorian, Chrysler's
> largest shareholder,
> >sued Daimler for $9 billion, charging fraud.
> >
> >"Apparently in Germany, one can say pretty much
> whatever one wants to
> >the shareholders of a company," says Terry
> Christensen, Kerkorian's
> >lawyer. "Here in the United States, what you say to
> the shareholders
> >has to be true."
> >
> >Dejected Employees
> >
> >All of this has demoralized Chrysler's workers.
> >
> >"Most of them are disgusted and frustrated because
> they seem like
> >they have been shafted," says one.
> >
> >The rank and file now expects big layoffs, and they
> worry the company
> >will be sold. Schrempp insists that isn't true, but
> few of the
> >Americans he has dealt with are willing to take him
> at his word a
> >second time.
> >
> >
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