[Rhodes22-list] A Note From Our CEO

[Robert J. Nickerson]

Bill,

I sincerely hope this was a lame attempt at satire.

Otherwise:
What if the sticker was put on by the spouse, the kids, the employee's 
parents?
What if in six months the business tax breaks and incentives kick start the 
economy and you need those employees back?
What if those employees learn what happened and suddenly not many good 
people want to work for you?
What if your health insurance costs decrease allowing you to keep those 
employees and make more profits?
What if those employees became "born again" and had a "revelation" in the 
voting booth and actually did not vote for Obama?

I believe that any executive who makes a decision based on what he believes 
someone else will do and what bad things will then happen is the creation of 
a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor future results.

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
To: "R22 List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 5:11 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] A Note From Our CEO


> As the CEO of this business that employs 140 people, I have resigned
> myself to the fact that Barack Obama is now our next President, and
> that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
>
> To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have
> to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot
> increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we
> will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been
> eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't
> know how to choose who will have to go.
>
> So, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 8
> Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these
> folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way
> to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.
>
>
> If you have a better idea, let me know.
>
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