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Originally Posted by manaboutown
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Hmmm. . . . starting to look like 30% reduction in employees (corporatism) is showing up in deferred/eliminated track maintenance. . maintenance done on a routine basis has a financial cost without a visible ROI, because nothing bad happens. . very difficult to analyze what level of maintenance is optimal. . i didn't type impossible to analyze/optimize. . just difficult so that its easy for someone to present lots of savings with elimination of maintenance because there is no proof of return. . . idiots
From my experience, smells of a consulting job who was paid to find huge savings or to optimize operations including savings to find profit increases. .
Any company which hires consultants to perform these jobs are executives with no idea how to manage a company nor division. . they are financialized executives who proposed crappy analysis and solutions which management will just eat up because that's how you get to be a senior executive. . . I have worked for executives who never hired consultants except for very unique situations, and never for internal operational answers, and I have worked for idiots who don't know how to manage anything other than an existing process and hire consultants to tell them what to do. . appears like the second case to me. .
and the train derailment stats of incident reduction is so small and somewhat random that its almost insignificant. . . what's missing from that analysis is increasing cost per derailment so that the small reductions over time doesn't result in any savings or doesn't shows increasing total costs . . .
finance guy