i'm not pregnant either. LOL
>From: steve preston <steve239dak@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: Re: DML: RE: DC Troubles finally make major headlines
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:23:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>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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