How many retailers do we have?

That's nice, let me re-phrase, and ask a hypothetical question.

You buy supplies and tools, including grinders, from a major supplier. Should you care how he/she runs their company, as long as you get what you order?

Let's go a step further, let's say this supplier has a very efficient, hard working employee, that knows all the major customers and is responsible for all his customers happiness, and has done an incredible job for say 24 years.

Policy at this company is that anyone that works for 25 years gets free health care after retirement.

this supplier decides, now that someone is actually going to use that policy and retire upon completion of the 25th year, fires this long standing employee with 24 years 6 months time.

As a consumer or reseller, should we give a damn? Does it matter to us? Should it?

If this supplier will pull this nonsense on someone they have known that long, valued their work and results that much, and then stab them, why would this person not do the same thing to their customers when its time for a warranty reimbursement?

I heard this occurred, I do not know personally the parties involved,(very well), but the conversation about the questions I bring up were discussed between me and a retailer that let me in on the story. We hadn't come to a consensus, thought it would be a thought provoking topic related to glass, in a way.

It definitely relates to glass people.

Thoughts about the subject, and please, nothing about , "they should sue" know that, but what about remaining a customer and can you trust the supplier to follow through on any other promise?

fired after 24 1/2 years

you go and get some-one to brake one his legs ( approx $1500.00 for pro) at the Knees and then ask him to discuss the medical again. use the weighted bat, this is a slugger that has had a large hole drilled into the end and filled with lead, then wrap the outside with plimazone rubber. this give you a lot more force on the swing. hit knee from the sides.

works better then Johnny Cochran, and results are immediate. If you get a real tough guy, do the other leg just after he gets home from the hospital.

Java wrote: (snip)

involved,(very

discussed

Without knowing first hand exactly what is going on, you can't really make any assumptions as what should be done. If in fact the employee was terminated just so as to not have to pay out any benefits then he/she needs to talk to an attorney. If on the other hand, he/she has been found to have been stealing for the past 24 years...then they're out the door.

Andy

Andy makes a good point. People get screwed all the time. More often they do the screwing to themselves. Business is business, but pulling the rug out from someone like that without cause is pretty tough to do in todays lawyer riddled society. It's not "On the Waterfront" anymore. I would want all the details from both sides before I pulled my dollars away from the company. Bring out all the details you know Java, and let's get to the bottom of this. We have leaders of industry reading this NG that can make a difference.

The executive in question certainly knew the time line of this employee's history. Dismissal of someone at this point in their employment only months prior to a retirement is a CERTAIN lawsuit. I doubt that any business man would be so flagrant and put his company at much greater financial risk than he'd face by just honoring the retirement policy. Personally, I think there's more to this than what any of us know.

Like, for example the employee going on "cruise control" and not doing the assigned work because he/she is a "short-timer". Slackers get fired whether they have 2 weeks or 24 years.

The fact that you agreed with me almost word for word is astounding enough! I think that by the time Java heard this, the sour grapes must have set in good and solid. My guess is that he got a one-sided story all the way.

Don't let it go to your head. That's just one time. May never happen again.

OK folks, we are getting away from the point of the comment and the question asked.

Don't assume that I am wrong about what I am asking, the word "hypothetical" was included in the original post, the question was not about whether I am right or wrong or even have all the facts of that particualar situation.

The question was about "us", as customers, WHEN we find the situation I described. and to all those "doubting Thomases", I have been careful not to divulge any actual information, names companies etc until I am sure I know all the facts as presented to me, and the harmed person contacts me to say, "Hey, go after this guy for me, embarass hell out of him," in which case I will tell everything I know because I think it is rotten. Golden rule sort of thing.

SO, back to the original question, assume what I have said did , indeed, happen.

(I would be truely shocked and astounded to find that there was ANY misconduct by the wronged person, but for our discussion, it is NOT included in the scenario.)

"hypothetical"

Here's your answer Java. I would always continue to buy from the company that does right by me. Business is business. I can't afford to take up for every cause that goes on behind closed doors everywhere, and I'm sure there are plenty more worse things happening at the local town stores we buy from as well. My storefront is treated as a separate entity, like my suppliers. Nothing personal.

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I have a glass gallery and I often lurk this newsgroup.

Alex

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given the exact scenerio you describe, I wouldn't do business with the firm as I would be convinced that they are just a short law suit away from shutting their doors....if I DID do business with them, I would do everything COD and I wouldn't buy anything which might require the continued existence of the company.

Bryan "but then I'm paranoid" Paschke