10.29.2006

Rule #12 Don't Look to be Acquired When You Can't Keep Staff

If you are hoping that your company is going to be acquired and you'll get to ride off into the sunset in your Porsche that you bought with your employee's bonus money instead of distributing it to them then you should damned well work harder to try and not fire your employees for just about no reason aside from pathetic whim.

Yeah, this rule's a little obtuse for now but its gott be. The skinny is that no company is going to buy you when you can't keep people working for you or you have incredibly high turnover. Because companies don't buy shitty companies based on whims, they buy them based on solid and provable profits and solid product lines. Companies with disgruntled employees and major companies that refuse to do business with them are just not going to get bought.

Rule #12: Don't think someone's going to buy your shitty company out when you can't keep people from quitting or keep your own dumb ass from firing them without cause. Its just asinine and makes you look stupid.

Oh yeah, also try not to keep reducing benefits even while trumpeting how much mad profit you're making. Its more than just a little rude and uncalled for. And, while we're at it, why not kick some of that profit back into the company so people aren't working on freaking Pentium II machines on crappy little 14 inch CRT monitors.

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