This is worrying familiar.... Place I work for, Grandad was a great engineer but also a good businessman. Built the place up to the point where our products had a good name. Son also a good engineer but not a good manager. Can't see the point in changing a product that works. Still, past success carried us on until fairly recently when it has become obvious that the competition have been changing products that worked and now have things cheaper and better than us.

Grandkids, well, your description of Generation 3 covers it nicely. One refurbised his house on the company and once invoiced us for giving his opinion on something - the opinion was 'I don't know'. Daughter has no idea how to manage people - the carrot doesn't get a look in - and seems to base decisions on how much it will annoy the workforce rather than how well it will get the job done...

Once Gen2 goes half the company will be closed no matter how much money it makes and the other half run in to the ground within a few years. The only hope is that Gen3 will bankrupt themselves as well as putting innocent people out of a job, but I suspect even that bit of justice will be avoided...
(Slave to Percy, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:56, Reply)