Sorry Folks, Dany Bahar Was On The Right Track, Even If You Hated Him

Hi There. I'm glad you enjoyed the piece......it was written from the guts, and had years of Lotus experience behind it to give it driving force. I do not know if you are a Lotus employee too, or an ex-employee....but it was nice to know that the words i wrote did not fall on deaf ears, or blinded vision. I also appreciate your best wishes.....thank you for those too. They are very much appreciated Now please DO NOT get me wrong.......i am not slagging off the Buisness, or trying to do damage to it's name or reputation. You can't blame a person with leprosy for what the disease is doing to them. I'M JUST TRYING TO DO WHAT A SURGEON DOES........REMOVE THE VILE, POISONOUS, CANCEROUS TUMOR thats stopping the body from being healthy. And that Cancer is called Incompetent British Management. The ONLY problem with Lotus, IS the management. They do not have a clue how to run that buisness. And since we ALWAYS have the same people in charge CAUSING, or mis-handling the problems, and the same people who've been doing the job on the shop floor for donkeys years, who's advice, experience and expertise is totally ignored, we find that this MUST be the only reason why the buisness is up financial s**t creek..... year in and year out. IT....MUST....BE....THE....MANAGEMENT. They're the ONLY ONES who make the decisions, they are the ONLY ONES who have access to the MONEY, They are the ONLY ONES who instruct the workforce, and they are the ONLY ONES who ignore what they're being told by us, They are the ONLY ONES with the power to make change. ALL WE, THE WORKFORCE CAN DO.........IS WHAT WE ARE TOLD TO DO. Supervisors, team leaders, and managers......who are ALL under the belief that THEY DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE ANY HANDS ON PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE TO KNOW HOW TO DO A JOB, OR BE PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT JOB......to be in charge. That's like telling a man who plays Microsoft Flight Simulator that he does'nt NEED ANY HANDS ON PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE TO FLY A SPACE SHUTTLE in real life. Now do you see what's been holding us back for years. NO PROBLEM FOR LOTUS is unsolvable.....when you have a workforce that can be manipulated, or bullied into giving that bit more to dig out the company from the mire. I.e......the flexible working pattern i spoke of last time. NO ONE WANTED IT, NO ONE WAS GOING TO VOTE TO ACCEPT IT, but it still all got forced in by tearing up the contracts, issuing 90 days notice, and telling the workforce......if ya don't like it.....p**s off. The pathetic Staff Council under the leadership of Mr J. Garwood, and who have a solicitor at their disposal at ALL TIMES.......SAT BACK, AND JUST LET IT ALL HAPPEN. Flexible working means that when the buisness CANNOT make cars, the workforce are sent home, or told not to report for work for the next several days......they will recieve FULL pay......but will have to make that lost time up later. This loss of working time can only go up to a MAXIMUM 150 hours. This IS, in theory.....a good idea from a struggling buisness point of view i suppose, and logical. The ONLY reason that the workforce are so dead against it........IS BECAUSE OF THE MANAGEMENT........we know that it will be totally mis-used and abused by them, FOR THEM. We know that NO MATTER what we do, or what efforts are put in by us, or how MUCH physically harder we work...... it will be TOTALLY FOR NOTHING, AND COMPLETELY WASTED. All that Blood, Sweat, and Tears.....for nothing, because some moron in the management did'nt anticipate the blatently obvious to everyone else who's got to do the job. Again.....this is why they won't let us have a Trade union........because it allows them to modify our T's & C's, employment law, and ANYTHING else that we can be pushed and bullied into, that gets them out of a jam as a buisness, and saves a few of the clique's jobs by hiding indiscretions. That's why you have to use the Lotus chain of command......the buck stops with the first person you saw, and he's going to turn into a brick wall when it comes to taking it further. His answer's FINAL........even if he's wrong. Just go and ask one of the lads, who was off sick with depression for several months on a Dr's certificate. During his time OFF SICK, the manager made a record that this guy OWED Lotus in excess of 60 hours flexible working hours as a result of buisness non-production, 60 hours that he'd NEVER HAD because he was off sick at the time. That manager insisted he was right, and prevented the guy in question from taking it further. As i understand from talking to him......6 months later he's STILL recorded as owing 60 hours even though both he AND his OWN SUPERVISOR (one of the Good Guys....we do have them thank god) proved the manager wrong. Now what about the members of the workforce who have lost no time at all, and are going to lose no time at all, and who are TOLD that they are coming into work on their days OFF..........for NO PAY. You probably know it Peter, as unpaid overtime. The enforced Flexible working pattern means that Dany Bahar has got people working for NOTHING, and being put in a position against their will to accept Dany Bahar's word that the company owes, and will pay them, AS & IF it suits Lotus. This is the same guy remember, who has just been sacked for sticky fingers in the cookie jar, and the men and women who are owed 150+ unpaid as yet, hours of work, have nothing but the word of a crook to go by. The rest of the management who were in it with Bahar, and who have not been caught yet, REALLY should watch out. They might not have been caught with their fingers in the cookie jar at the critical moment Bahar was caught.........but all DRB-Hicom have to do is follow the trail of crumbs FROM the jar, and it will lead to the next rat. As i said in my last post......without a Trade Union representing the workforce, Lotus with it's current production management ( before DRB-Hicom arrived i stress) WILL CONTINUE TO BE A BERMUDA TRIANGLE of missing money, misused investment, and abused positions of trust, and lost opportunities at the expense of both workforce and investors. The whole buisness is suffering from a LONG, LONG overdue treatment of it's cancerous BRITISH MANAGEMENT.They keep EVERY PROBLEM we've ever had......as a problem for tomorrow. Even DRB-Hicom have noticed that the workforce at Hethel are NOT happy in their work, and they find that this is not good for any buisness. They're now asking a lot of questions about that, and want to rectify the problems. I hope you now understand why i said on my last post about Dany Bahar not closing the door on his way out, as he's going to probably have some company soon? On a final note, another basic fact about Lotus (and i am serious about this, honestly) is this......you could ask the most intelligent, highest IQ'd, super brained, genetically modified, most mentally superior intellectuals in human history, to sit down with Einstein, Hawking, and Newton and collectively come up with a definitive, once and for all time solution to present to Lotus and put into operation......and I GUARANTEE YOU, that no matter how PERFECT that battle plan is, no matter how guaranteed to work it is, i GUARANTEE you that it would go tit's up within days because because ONE MANAGER, with a little bit of power, did'nt like it and say's "it's not in our process sheets, i don't like it, so we can't do that". What he really means is, that "it's going to open a can of worms for me,and my career, it will expose my misdeeds, my arse will be in the ringer, so we better cover this up with red tape and bullshit excuses".