I would classify the current EMT as "caretaker" managers. They have zero vested interest in the company, and could care less about any employee but themselves. RTS was the father of this baby, and realized the success we achieved was a result of more than himself. It took a while, but that epiphany finally came.
While RTS is truely a great entrepeneur, he placed all his eggs in sales, and liked to delegate responsibility like WB. Trouble is, his loyalties brought in folks who really couldn't manage to tie their own shoes, much less run an operation we turned into. He put way too much trust in those that nearly cost 6000 jobs.
DS came in and actually did do some good. Turning us into a profitable enterprize based upon operations alone puts us in a tremendous advantage when sales do increase, and they will. The furlough was not the catalist to profits either. That was but a small part of cost savings, and the fact is, we hired too many assuming those never ending sales would continue.
The real issue is we currently have a union busting lawyer in charge. He even has the gaul to deny his daddy's firm is involved in union matters at all, and said recently he had no idea the employees considered him a union buster. Why he has to be confrontational with the organized employees is beyond me. Our relationship to the old EMT was one of harmony and cooperation unlike any I've seen, except maybe Southwest. It would seem this guy is simply unable to adapt to a new way of thinking-that this group is easy to work with when we're treated with respect, much less as adults. Then again, some of the recent actions and correspondences have been rather childish in themselves. Maybe he doesn't know how.
