[Jewelry making - Article 00660] - Re: [Orchid] Closing metal jewelry program

[John Burgess]

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G'day.

    Karen Kristians was writing in the Orchid I just received. about a
    class closing Sorry to learn another class has been closed and
    especially in the light of the fact that this is the third I have
    heard about. I suppose this is OK if there are too few students for
    it to be worth what it cost to run these classes, but one has to
    wonder if this might be a management ploy in order to cut costs so
    they can spend the money on something else. Once upon a time the
    slogan was 'the customer is always right;'  in other words the focus
    was upon customers  needs (students in this case). But modern
    corporate standards have changed all that due to greed and now the
    focus is solely on profits. If the company or enterprise is not
    making as much money as those on the top feel they must have in order
    to appear 'persons of substance', then the first thing on the agenda
    is 'what can we  close down; who or what can we get rid of to enable
    us to take  more (and more)'? In other words, the slogan has now
    become  'the management is always right';  'The customers will just
    have to adjust.'  'And we will provide all kinds of other nice things
    which we will persuade them they must have.' Now where did I put that
    red flag? 

Cheers for now,
JohnB of Mapua, Nelson NZ

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