CompuServe Messages

Having worked for CBM in the past, I can tell you one thing that is going to change your entire perspective on information you get from "reliable sources" at CBM. Various employees at CBM make decisions, draft plans, and set the ball rolling to get some things done. Down the road, for one reason or another, the plan never actually gets executed. Why? Usually there is no money/time/resources free for that project. There are a LOT of good people that work for CBM. They are well intended, hard working folks for the most part. When one of them comes up with a plan to bolster sales, take some market initiative, or whatever, it usually involved some kind of risk or capital investment. Since a job at CBM is a hard thing to hold onto, you'll rarely find anyone in the organization that CAN approve a project (i.e. commit funds/resources) to do so. It's simply a matter of covering one's own butt and keeping thine own job. Self preservation is a big thing at CBM. And who can blame them? When you see colleages all around you being let go, you tend to take a different (i.e. more careful) approach to your job. What has this got to do with your high-up contact? The information you got from whoever you got it from, may in fact have been accurate at the time. But chances are good to excellent that the information ceased to become true, or changed radically in scope by the time it became relevant. I've seen it all too often. Great ideas are going to be enacted, and then it gets nixed. It's all pretty much in the name of the short term bottom line.