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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3614662" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>I was born and raised in Oklahoma but after college, I was recruited to Kansas. After 20+ years at my college educated profession I was making $8.20 per hour and training new recruits making $10 and $12 per hour. I retired after 20 and within a week was in a new vocation making $16 per hour and not endangering my life every day. </p><p></p><p>After several years of this, I was offered a lateral move to OKC with the company purchasing my old house and moving me with a substantial raise. This sounds great doesn't it? This monetary gain was shelled out by the company after eviscerating the existing OKC office by firing the general manager, the two salesmen, the administration secretary, four technicians out of six and closed the office. </p><p></p><p>Two technicians were left to handle the state of Oklahoma's customers and one of those men quit. The sole survivor was given a van and had a home office where he stored parts and inventory for the company. Keep in mind the Oklahoma office was still in the process of doing business daily with service calls and ongoing installations. Furthermore, the customers we had were not residential, not really commercial in the conventional sense but Fortune 500 companies and government installations that required enterprise level systems worldwide. </p><p></p><p>It was then the beginning of my year long commute to Oklahoma every week and back every weekend. The company paid for all my motel and meals and I helped out where I could then the last OKC tech quit. Holy crap talk about into the fire! </p><p></p><p>I had the entire state from Keys to Pitcher to Broken Bow to Altus. I had this position for ten years. By myself. I wore out three trucks.</p><p></p><p>Finally in 2010 the company decided to open another office in OKC. We had 9 employees with another general manager and salsemen. Then they did a stupid thing called <strong>SAP</strong>. It was a fiasco from the day it was announced. Within 4 months, the OKC office was again closed. Then I quit because they wanted me to revisit my lone wolf role for Oklahoma.</p><p></p><p>I moved to a few more similar companies and did different things and finally retired. As was previously stated, I was loyal to the paycheck.</p><p></p><p>I did get a Swiss Army watch when I quit the company, it never worked. LOL!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 3614662, member: 44288"] I was born and raised in Oklahoma but after college, I was recruited to Kansas. After 20+ years at my college educated profession I was making $8.20 per hour and training new recruits making $10 and $12 per hour. I retired after 20 and within a week was in a new vocation making $16 per hour and not endangering my life every day. After several years of this, I was offered a lateral move to OKC with the company purchasing my old house and moving me with a substantial raise. This sounds great doesn't it? This monetary gain was shelled out by the company after eviscerating the existing OKC office by firing the general manager, the two salesmen, the administration secretary, four technicians out of six and closed the office. Two technicians were left to handle the state of Oklahoma's customers and one of those men quit. The sole survivor was given a van and had a home office where he stored parts and inventory for the company. Keep in mind the Oklahoma office was still in the process of doing business daily with service calls and ongoing installations. Furthermore, the customers we had were not residential, not really commercial in the conventional sense but Fortune 500 companies and government installations that required enterprise level systems worldwide. It was then the beginning of my year long commute to Oklahoma every week and back every weekend. The company paid for all my motel and meals and I helped out where I could then the last OKC tech quit. Holy crap talk about into the fire! I had the entire state from Keys to Pitcher to Broken Bow to Altus. I had this position for ten years. By myself. I wore out three trucks. Finally in 2010 the company decided to open another office in OKC. We had 9 employees with another general manager and salsemen. Then they did a stupid thing called [B]SAP[/B]. It was a fiasco from the day it was announced. Within 4 months, the OKC office was again closed. Then I quit because they wanted me to revisit my lone wolf role for Oklahoma. I moved to a few more similar companies and did different things and finally retired. As was previously stated, I was loyal to the paycheck. I did get a Swiss Army watch when I quit the company, it never worked. LOL! [/QUOTE]
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