Muscatine

Thanks for the wonderful diatribe.   It's up to your usual quality.

I do have this vague feeling that Stanley wouldn't have grown from 50 or 60 jobs in Muscatine to 300 in Muscatine without a few being hired to work on jobs from overseas.   Or to put another way, I don't think those 50 or 60 could have been stretched to do all the overseas work on top of the more local work.   You don't seem to admit that overseas jobs require designing which means more jobs in Muscatine.

But go on about your business of name calling.

It's not a revelation that construction management has people in the field, although they do have a couple in the office most times.

I know you worked on construction.   But doing what?
Did you dig the trenches?   Carry the forms?   Do the sodding?   Push wheel borrows of concrete?   Answer the phone?

I think you could handle those.

I have no idea what BB does in his job, but I am smart enough to know that the jobs that you listed are hired locally, not hiring someone to travel to the worksite for low-level jobs.

Your original statement of Stanley hiring more workers locally for overseas contracts sounded like when/if they got a contract to do a job somewhere other than Muscatine, they hired more engineers right here.

Additional contracts does not equate to new local jobs.

Ahh lads, but it does.   It's not a one to one basis but more work does equate to more jobs and some, usually most, are in Muscatine.   Although over the years some other branch offices have been assigned overseas work, Muscatine still gets the bulk of it.

The number of employees does not fluctuate with contracts as a rule.

Whose rule is this?  You can't possibly believe that when you get work for 300 people and you only have 200, that you don't hire more people.   Or maybe it is more understandable if I say you need 300 people and you only have 290.   The point is, that at some degree of shortfall in emloyees, you hire more.

That's the real rule.

Face it, BS is wrong.    Again.

"Additional contracts does not equate to new local jobs.

Ahh lads, but it does.   It's not a one to one basis but more work does equate to more jobs and some, usually most, are in Muscatine.   Although over the years some other branch offices have been assigned overseas work, Muscatine still gets the bulk of it.

The number of employees does not fluctuate with contracts as a rule.

Whose rule is this?  You can't possibly believe that when you get work for 300 people and you only have 200, that you don't hire more people.   Or maybe it is more understandable if I say you need 300 people and you only have 290.   The point is, that at some degree of shortfall in emloyees, you hire more."

I believe you are ignoring the concept of Scheduling!  Project Managers normally schedule jobs to match their resources (the scheduling is often part of the bid specification).  Adding staff to work on any new project is not a normal business practice.  It does happen on rare occasions, but not normally.

Just when do you hire additional staff if not when you get more work?   If you ran Stanley's the last 50 years it would still be a 40 or 50 member operation.   Same for HON.

When HON gets an order for 1,000 desks and chairs, they don't tell the purchaser we'll schedule the work in September and get the product to you in October and November.   If it's a big enough order and the prospects are for more, they hire more people and run another shift.   If the work continues to increase, they build more manufacturing facilities and hire more staff as they are doing right now.

When the USAF wants an airfield in Oman, Stanley doesn't say maybe next year of the year after when we can fit it in our schedule.   No they staff up and do it when scheduled.

BB is not wrong.  You are.

Now BS is not only wrong but so are you.