Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
For goodness sakes would you zip it already. It was not a miserable failure. Date of hire with fences is how most mergers were done.
Man your dad really must have taken all this stuff home every day to give you such a jaded opinion considering you weren't even on our seniority list.
Carl
"WAS" how most mergers were done would be the appropriate tense.
He was very senior for a good part of his career....retired off the 400, spent 6 years on the DC-10. If he had such a jaded perspective, why would I have gotten into this career? Why would he be so supportive? Your reasoning isn't very sound...
He absolutely didn't take it home after every trip- and was very positive about his career and the way things turned out. However, from
my outside looking in
opinion, the 20 year fences and the way things were done pretty much defined exactly how not to do a merger.
From a logical perspective (long before this merger was squeezed out through long dark intestine of management), I consider weighted ratios to be the most clear cut way of integrating lists. How they are weighted is where the jumbo crayon comes in, though. Nothing is perfect.
Agree to disagree?