A Scary Fact.

[brewens]

34. They create the problem and then point to the problem and make that the reason to cut

things. I've actually had two jobs like that.

I took a wine delivery job at the beer distributor I worked for when they expnded into the wine business. The old school beer guys that ran the place really wanted nothing to do with it. The lady owner forced them into it, her expand and deversify strategy that should have been sound.

I quickly found out that the bosses intended to make it work partly by not paying top dollar as our competition did. We ended up with an alcoholic wine salesman that never did his job. Before long, as soon as we had expanded, they were cutting slow selling products (that shouldn't have been) and everything else they could do to put us on a downhill spiral. It lasted about three years.

They dumped the wine business because it just wasn't profitable they said! So our competition ends up with our wine lines and everything else we had in that department and does just fine with all of it. They probably wouldn't have gotten away with all that if the manager had not been part owner as well. It was he and his son that were the main problem along with an assistant manager that was caught in the middle of it all. I couldn't blame that guy for just wanting to dump it.

I'd probably be in the same boat now if I didn't work for a not for profit blood center. We're an independant sort of but controlled by a much larger corporation. They are basically forcing the people calling the shots locally to make things work or we'd already be shut down.