From Realtor to Business Development Manager…Welcome Robert “Rob” McClintock!
What an exordium-“A high-impact business and operations executive” Huh? to a well given real-estate sales associate of Coldwell Banker, residing in Clearwater, Florida. http://www.floridamoves.com/real_estate_agent/10405/Robert-Rob-McClintock.aspx
So Rob, are you pledging yourself to full-time employment at L-3 and relinquishing your passion for real estate? After all, Coldwell Banker has taken ‘great pains’ in training you to the highest standards and with your love for helping people to buy & sell properties you’ve committed never to move from Florida! With such passion for real estate why are you partnering with L-3? Are you simply moonlighting? Perhaps Steve Iozzino noticed your bio which reads ‘you are an assured responsive “Customer Focused Service” individual with an intense attention to detail. Well it seems another off-site L-3 business development manager was added to the roster under Mike Davida. By the way whatever happened to that other off-site naval business development manager, Captain Rick Kitchens? Is he sailing the 7-seas in search of the Golden Fleece? L-3 hires all this brass and they simply evanesce into thin air.
Is it derigueur that absentee employees take Reverend Ike’s Hocu$ Pocu$ Focu$ $elling course? Perhaps they can all rendezvous at one of the many resorts Reverend Ike frequents. He was just in Camden and recently received another bag-full of money. The costs are staggering, spiraling upwards of $2M after totaling all the costs including time & training.
However, even after compensating Reverend Ike we still have money left over to hire military retirees who are getting a tidy sum of nearly $8K per month in retirement benefits. We continue reading all the hype about strategic focus and business capture through a network of connections as if generals and admirals are chomping at the bit to help us. First of all, senior officers have a ‘cooling off period’ after retirement and are trammeled in making any contacts for favors in anything having to do with their former job assignments. Please reference Title 18, U.S. Code 207. Retirees are reminded they have certain military responsibilities and obligations after they retirement from active service. By the time the cool off period is over and they work elsewhere, those old contacts are gone.
I am assured that we shall hear the same old mantra about how poorly the company is doing and how we must tighten our belts as negotiations approaches for Locals 110 & 103. The old saying holds true that we cry poor mouth, but always find the money for things we want to spend it on. There’s always been a double standard between management and represented employees. Management is quick to defend and justify their own and swift to expedite punishment upon the hired help. Just think about those in management who has repeatedly violated L-3’s code of ethics from verbal abuse to punching in someone else’s time card only to have their hands gently smacked or to have the offense quietly swept under the rug while pretending to drag out some useless long investigation.
One bright spot is that we are hiring more Level 3 people for 2nd & 3rd shifts, since we have some added ‘box-work.’ The added box-work will continue to dazzle Mega Mensa as profits soar into the low teens. After all isn’t EBIT what causes the eyes to go into a hypnotic trance, numbing the brain, and electrifying personal digits? We should be fine until sales disappear and back end orders vaporize. In the meantime maybe we can enjoy a meal or two. Maybe have a hoagie-fest!