Nobody cares about doing a good job or providing a good experience, they care about optimizing for statistic X and Y because they are being judged against the entire workforce on those stats. It's pretty loving stupid and I can't wait until we get over this "statistics phase" in business. Analytics do not give you insight.
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# ? Mar 19, 2018 02:42 |
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Most of the managers or soon to be managers I met in grad school had absolutely no idea what the metrics in a supply chain model were actually measuring. Make the abstract number you don't understand go up, up, up ( or down). They also utterly fail to understand systems and fixate on single metrics, often the ones they have a bare grasp of (rather than the ones they don't understand at all)
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# ? Mar 19, 2018 03:04 |
watco g&w anacostia railholdings are there any other big shortline holding companies or shortlines worth looking at? further advancement within my company is looking pretty lovely and im getting annoyed with how dysfunctional the organization is. i thought about amazon but the way they treat the employees really depresses me. ups promotes from within so thats out. trucking doesn't pay as well as what i already do. i'd like to avoid working at a port because dealing with longshoreman is terrible. im not boxed into working for a railroad but i like operations type jobs.
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 03:39 |
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I've heard Watco is pretty decent overall, but nothing specific.
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 12:34 |
George Zimmer posted:I've heard Watco is pretty decent overall, but nothing specific. my dad works for watco after a short stint at florida east coast. he likes watco a lot but i wouldnt want to follow him there for a variety of reasons. vains posted:watco
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# ? Apr 13, 2018 01:06 |
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Guess who got TDG classes bingo today?
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# ? Apr 13, 2018 02:07 |
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I got a weird question. Let's say someone has been working as a banker for several years and is getting increasingly frustrated with being in finance. If they were a good salesman would there be any crossover with logistics? What kinds of questions would that person encounter in an interview?
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# ? Jun 29, 2018 18:54 |
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If your operating costs are 50 cents per mile, how would you price a 500 miles back haul? Given a voyage where you can load 29,000 MT, a two day load time, three days transit and one day unload, with port costs at 12,000 load and free discharge, assuming a ballast leg of one and a half day 50% of the time and a target TCE of 25k per day, what would you offer the customer? What if the customer needs to move 110k tons per years, over ten months? Operations just told your customer their pick up is going to be a day late, what do you do? I don’t know. I’m an operation guy
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# ? Jun 30, 2018 02:12 |
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After the crisis I saw Lehman and Bear Stearns guys working as ships agents for a while. None of them lasted.
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# ? Jun 30, 2018 03:53 |
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BrandorKP posted:After the crisis I saw Lehman and Bear Stearns guys working as ships agents for a while. Holy poo poo. For reference, I’ve been working in shopping for over ten years, and I’d take another job scrubbing puke off of ferry decks before I did that poo poo.
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# ? Jun 30, 2018 04:42 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:26 |
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FrozenVent posted:If your operating costs are 50 cents per mile, how would you price a 500 miles back haul? Math? Gross. I'll stick to finance.
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