The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
For one thing it does suggest he's not working hard enough if he hasn't noticed!
Sadly you don't understand the point and that is probably the seat of the problem. Your customers pay your wages and pension, not "the management" or however you try to demean the people making decisions in the business within which you have a job. If you choose to fail your customers they will decide to go elsewhere as will the people who lend money to the business so it can operate.
Dear madasa..... Understood, but why are you blathering on about not being interested about dividends and profits on a share dealing chat room? Essentially you're wasting your time which might be better spent offering your customers your full attention.
Today my postie delivered 6 letters addressed to me...from businesses selling me their services, 6 leaflets and one cardboard envelope from Amazon. Probably a bit more than normal but a decent amount given the supposed death of letters! The thing is that the Amazon package replaced a trip to a shop, the letter from Pharmacy2U was promoting a prescription service delivered to my door (replacing a trip to the shops), and the Checktrade leaflet seemingly replaces the yellow pages (if that still exists). So it seems that mail is surviving and perhaps shops and things like yellow pages and local rags are actually under fire. It will be interesting to see the results but I'm staying invested for a while despite short term wide boy trader tactics and the militants' ramblings.
@Isleworth. Surely the point of an independent mediator is that she will set the agenda and neither rm nor union needs to be proactive as you put it. Surely the role of the mediator is to find the point at which the two squabblers stop throwing their toys around and get back to remembering that customers pay their wages and pensions and should get a perfect service rather than one that might not happen. I hope the belligerents on both sides remember that there are customers out there who will be the ones hit by the egos.
@Isleworth Spy...800 odd words of rhetoric from you and you haven't mentioned your "customers" once.
@Mike1974 "Just because you and the rest of your vile generation". I think you let yourself down there and showed a little bit of your nasty side...randomly grouping together individuals and persecuting them for no reason other than their birth date smacks of the dark side. Shame on you.
@spacemen, "all the mail volumes still come back to RM" because RM is a monopoly, no one else delivers mail. However the "all" is getting smaller and a strike will force commercial businesses to do something different with the things they communicate - they'll have to, why should a business be ruined by strikers, why should they lose out? Are you really fighting for a 35 hour week? 35 hours? I assume you don't want a full week's wages for just working part of the week....35 hours!!
@Isleworth spy. "Very good. Never heard that before. Do you not think that our business model has changed to accommodate lesser letter volumes. - you mean got smaller, great, well done. You really do have your head in the sand if you and madasaballoon think that businesses won't react! Dreamers! As for Madasasaballoon's opinion that digital channels are some passing fad....incredible, you guys really are dinosaurs. I imagine the only benefit of losing business from a strike is that they'll get rid of the dead wood and hopefully employ some enlightened people who might look forward instead of back.....I think you might be part of the problem boys!
@madasaballoon. You're missing the point about letters. Your customers don't get up in the morning and decide to produce a load of letters just to keep busy. They produce letters because there is something inside that they need to convey to their customers e.g. invoices, statements, investment reviews, vouchers, catalogues etc etc..all things that your customers - businesses - need to do on a daily basis. The thing is, if you strike they will have no alternative but to look for other ways to move those messages around. After all, why should striking postmen put their business at jeopardy and risk the jobs of their employees? No, there aren't any other posties out there but there is digital - it's your phone, your iPad or your computer. Any message that businesses need to send you at home can be put on a digital platform instead....invoices, statements, investment reviews, vouchers, catalogues etc. All you'll have left is a few birthday cards...and once those businesses have made the investment to create more digital solutions, they will never ever go back to letters, why would they? By all means strike but you will be forcing your customers to make changes that will make your business smaller - why should they suffer?