He was a plankholder. He left before it really turned into self-parody.Originally Posted by 45dotACP
As I was reminded by several smart people at SHOT, it was the rainbow TiNi guns and cheesy Chicom optics that kept the company afloat long enough to develop P320s and MPXs and stand up their own optics and ammo houses.
Last edited by Tamara; 02-25-2017 at 08:07 PM.
Does anybody know when Ron Cohen was hired by Kimber, and when Kimber QC went down the toilet? According to Bloomberg, Ron Cohen was hired by Sig in 2004 and became the CEO in 2005. Before that, again according to Bloomberg, Cohen was the General Manager at Kimber "from its inception on the East Coast in 1996".
Cohen was a plankholder at "Kimber the 1911 company", which is a company that basically bought the name and 07 of a semidefunct rifle builder in the PNW.
As I remember it from the retail end, Kimber QC started its first wobbles in '01, as they basically became victims of their own success, and really took it in the shorts with the disastrous "Series II" rollout.
The company was basically built on the idea that you could buy frames and slides and small parts and build IDPA/USPSA-ready "custom" 1911s for not much more than Colt and Springfield were selling basic Government Model-type pistols for at the time. For the first few years in the late '90s, Kimber pistols were phenomenal values for the money, but the profit margins didn't scale well with meteoric growth and shortcuts needed to be taken.
How does this work exactly? And why is it good to cut pensions of the men and women that helped build the company all those years ago? It wasn't managment that got it to where it was.
There's a reason production proof parts are often required to be run at production rate and in production lot sizes. Weird stuff can happen just by trying to do exactly the same thing, but a lot more of it. That applies to both in-house and contracted parts and processes.
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Not another dime.
Eliminate that which is killing you. It's basic survival. The old mantra of maximizing shareholder value is horse shit now. Just look at Amazon. They treat their employees like animals and they have the highest rated reputation this year based on the Reputation Quotient Ratings and they received over half of the internet's sales growth in 2016. You can be insanely successful and an asshole simultaneously. Quite frankly though, the union design has shown a pattern of overplaying their hand to their own demise. That's why relying on a private company pension is a stupid idea.
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I've been in three unions in my lifetime and I liken them to social security's ponsi deal. it only works when more money coming in than going out.. Unions work great when times are good and lots of money is coming in. They can be killers when times are tough. I have a hard time blaming unions though when you see CEOs making millions as the company is tanking. It's like a run on a bank. The rumors start; smart people know if everybody takes out their money the bank will fail but everybody thinks I don't care I want my money now. Did colt cash in on the Obama years? Every gun store I go in has very few colts. I'm always told they can't get them. But there sure is a lot of kimbers and sig 1911s
They treat their employees like Russian infantrymen. Or interchangeable parts.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I've worked both sides in union shops. What I came to appreciate was that a decent union helped minimize the poisonous influence of petty favoritism.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Which union do you belong to?
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