company meeting, Friday, 10 July 2009

[DocRushing]

This afternoon Marda and I caught (on the VRU) a recorded message --
saying that tomorrow -- between 17:00 and 20:00, Friday, 10 July 2009 --
dispatchers on duty -- available and at their stations --
will be extremely limited --
due to a "company meeting" between 17:00 and 20:00 --
because "almost everyone" will attend the meeting.
Does any of you have any insight into that?
What's happening?
Is that good news for us contractors, bad news, neither, or all of the above?
Yes, of course, we'll eventually find out -- or maybe some of it.
Still, though, does any of you have any scoop in advance?
Thanks.
Doc.

[layoutshooter]

This afternoon Marda and I caught (on the VRU) a recorded message --
saying that tomorrow -- between 17:00 and 20:00, Friday, 10 July 2009 --
dispatchers on duty -- available and at their stations --
will be extremely limited --
due to a "company meeting" between 17:00 and 20:00 --
because "almost everyone" will attend the meeting.
Does any of you have any insight into that?
What's happening?
Is that good news for us contractors, bad news, neither, or all of the above?
Yes, of course, we'll eventually find out -- or maybe some of it.
Still, though, does any of you have any scoop in advance?
Thanks.
Doc.

We have not heard a thing on this meeting. Good to see you again, it has been awhile. How are you two doing?

[DocRushing]

Joe:
Thanks for the note.
We've done fairly well -- despite the recent (and current) bumps in the road.
However, we have an uneasy feeling about the meeting this afternoon.
That pattern -- a mass meeting late on Friday --
is how the top brass -- throughout the business world --
sometimes drop bombs -- announce cataclysmic news --
late on Friday -- after the normal end of the business week.
Maybe our suspicion will prove to be unfounded.
We'll see ....
How goes it with y'all?
Cheers!
Doc.

[ATeam]

However, we have an uneasy feeling about the meeting this afternoon.
That pattern -- a mass meeting late on Friday --
is how the top brass -- throughout the business world --
sometimes drop bombs -- announce cataclysmic news --
late on Friday -- after the normal end of the business week.
Maybe our suspicion will prove to be unfounded.
We'll see ....

We will know in a few hours. The meeting is three hours long. It could just as easily be a training session or something having to do with operating company moves or plans that will not affect contractors. It does not take three hours to announce cataclysmic news.

[LDB]

Could it be the initial training for the new system that replaces our Alexander Graham Bell Special Deluxe Clink units?

[TeamCaffee]

Every year is a kickoff meeting or a Rah Rah meeting. This is nothing new except for the date of when the meeting is held. I believe it is usually on a Saturday.

[D Team Brothers]

There is a day-long meeting on sales people from across the 50 and Canada. Usually there is a barbecue. I expect that's what the three hour "meeting" is all ablout.

[aileron]

Hopefully it is not a meeting about how to go about changing the straight trucks and tractors on a flat rate, what they did with the vans.

[Doggie Daddy]

It is their annual meeting to tell "stupid" truck driver stories,which always start with the phrase "you ain't gonna believe this sh**.

[piper1]

Load planning was unavailable due to a meeting last week one day for a few hours.

If it's all barbeque related I see a visit to Green in my future!

[aileron]

If it's all barbeque related I see a visit to Green in my future!

Haha, I thought about that too, but it costs more in fuel to go there than to get my own here....

[aileron]

So, meeting is over. Anybody got anything over the c-link?

[TeamCaffee]

You guys really it was something that happens every year. Not sure why they made the announcement was made this year to the fleet.

It is an internal meeting to talk about the way the last year has gone and the companies outlook for the next year. I am sure the way Virginia handles meetings it was very official class act.

This is actually a two day meeting with the sales vendors from Canada and the United States being in attendance. The sales people were updated on what the company is providing for services. The meeting is to get everyone on the same page and the goals for the next year. The employees in the office are included in this yearly meeting to keep everyone on the same page and working as a team.

[dabluzman1]

I was in Green for TVAL calibrating Wends and Thurs.
Same ol thing except:
The old dispatch area is a ghost town as they have all been moved "upstairs".
Breakfast was as good as ever.
Oh, the new "clinks", which had been approved, are on hold because of the downturn in the economy.
On another note, it was told to us that the higher-ups in Uniontown believe this economy will right itself by 3rd quarter 2010.

[MYGIA]

"Oh, the new "clinks", which had been approved, are on hold because of the downturn in the economy."


What new "clinks"??????