Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:08:59 -0400
From: “John Dykers M.D.”
Subject: Virginia Penley’s reference to Mountaire, not by name, just the chicken plant coming to Siler
Mountaire has held a big recruiting fair for employees at CCCC campus in Siler city and in the same Chatlist with your post was announcement of another at Wren Library.
I, personally, am hopeful that as many of their jobs as possible can/may be filled by currently unemployed or underemployed citizens of Chatham. That is a matter of the market and skills available. You chided Mark for not citing references, but “Korean worker brought to Siler City” was presented only as gossip without attribution.
The qualities you bragged on about Costco are laudable indeed, even if 2012 was the most recent CEO compensation package cited.
IMO, the formula for the highest annual pay of any executive of any corporation should be the lowest hourly wage of any employee, X 24 X 7 X 52 ( for being responsible every minute of the year) x 20 for skill level and that ideally would include knowing how to do every job: but with big organizations this is impossible, so at least every job of the people that that leader supervises.
Sooooo proud of you for taking responsibility for any bad business decision. I made several myself and Abdul Chaudry has run the Meat Packing Plant successfully where I failed. BUT absurd and self serving bureaucratic decisions/policies made my business model impossible to execute, and, in hindsight, my biggest failure was not sticking to plan and then accepting a “consultant’s” bad advice. But that is the essence of capitalism; we have to be able to fail; I am out because of wrong decisions and Abdul is still IN despite a stumble or two! Glad I did better with CharLean and breeding Charolais and practicing medicine. BTW, it sounds like you and I share something important; I feel sad at failing, but not guilty. And the reason is that I gave it my ultimate effort; bet you did too.
And I am guessing that Mark does to; he does not whine as much as he used to and he did have 3 strikes!!! We ought all to give each other the benefit of the doubt until we have walked 7 miles in the other fellow’s moccasins.
John Dykers