[GreenKeys] OT - was Oil, Navy, and well greased operations... (or something like that)

[Jon Schlegel]

Gotta jump in on this.

Corollary:  Spend time talking with vendors/reps/salespeople.  They 
can be useful back channels for info that may be somewhat guarded...

JS

At 02:27 PM 1/25/2009 -0500, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Randy or Sherry Guttery" <comcents at bellsouth.net>
>To: "Don Robert House" <Packard42 at gmail.com>
>Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:53 AM
>Subject: [GreenKeys] OT - was Oil, Navy, and well greased operations... (or
>something like that)
>
>
> > Don Robert House wrote:
> >> As we used to say in the Navy... "The first liar never has a chance!"
> >
> > I preferred the saying: "Want a challenge? start a rumor at the fantail
> > - and running as fast as you can - see if you can beat it to the bow -
> > you'll loose every time!"
> >
> >
>Almost like the place I work.  People on the outside know more about what is
>going on than the workers at the plant.
>
>It is a very large plant that has about 40 acers under roof and a lot of
>outside space. There used to be about 3000 workers when I first started
>about 30 years ago.  Now we are down to about 500. A coworker fell and broke
>his leg last week.  The news went from the plant somehow to another store
>across town, to someones house, then to a house down the road about 20 miles
>and then back to a cell phone of a person I was working with.  That is how I
>found out about it.
>
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