Sales Are Down But Profits Are Up? A Labor Dollar BS Story
07/21/05 Tuesday Morning Corporation Announces 5.2% Increase in Net Income for the Second Quarter This is straight from Tuesday Morning.com's Investor Relations page....if I hear one more time that sales are down I'm gonna scream. These people are bullshitting everyone they can just so they can swagger around the halls of Tuesday Morning corporate and feel good about themselves. They are not honest people when it comes to their business sense, and I can guarantee that they think they are better than everyone else on the planet because they're making big bucks. You, Tuesday Morning have made one gross mistake. In the age of the INTERNET information is now two way, and not only can you issue your little feel good press releases, but the very people that you take advantage of can fight back. They are permeating the internet with negative postings about your company and you can't find them because the site has to be listed with a high search engine ranking, which no new site attains. So, continue your quest to throw your weight around and prove...prove what...there's no reason on this planet to run a company so negatively. And I'm really serious about you all reading the article in the latest issue of Forbes Magazine, dated September 5th, 2005. Page 156..."Quelling Your Inner Jerk"By Robert Lenzner. There is a very good message that applies here to all CEO's, COO's and anyone else who thinks their a step below God. Take a little lesson from the news...people are not accepting 'business as usual' any longer.
posted by Ed @ 6:34 PM
14 Comments:
Ed what a great post! The only thing is that you were kind. The top management of TM thinks they are GOD!
This was posted on Yahoo message board:
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=l&board=19173580&tid=tues&sid=19173580&mid=&start=691
COPY AND PASTE YOU THEN WILL BE ABLE TO READ THE PRIOR MESSAGES!
It is sad to see how this country has turned into such a selfish nation!
Re: To Diomega
by: diomega (38/M/Santa Monica, CA) 09/01/05 11:14 pm
Msg: 856 of 856
You know nothing about me slacker. You no longer work there, you obviously own no stock, you haven't the means to short TUES, so why do you hang on? It seems to me that you know what an underachiever you really are and you feel a need to lash out at your ex-employer --a common response from underachievers. And now for something completely foreign to you, some facts:
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm): 6.68%
Operating Margin (ttm): 10.97%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm): 20.27%
Return on Equity (ttm): 36.23%
Income Statement
Revenue Per Share (ttm): 22.442
Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): 3.80%
Gross Profit (ttm): 341.22M
EBITDA (ttm): 114.36M
Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): 61.62M
Diluted EPS (ttm): 1.48
Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy): 5.20%
You are a gnat, meaningless, irrelevant, and most of all a bitter, sore loser. I am superior to you in every way.
Posted as a reply to: Msg 854 by usmclvnv
SO I GUESS WE ALL ARE UNDER ACHIEVERS!
Something that I found:
There's a lot of ignorance at work! This ignorance frequently leads to a fountain of problems as well as many losses of opportunity for both organizations and working individuals. People regardless of their roles and professions in the workplace, whether seasoned by decades of work roles or newly entering their first work role, normally do not understand the underlying principles and forces that drive their successes or failures and dysfunctions. Misunderstandings of the fundamentals and dynamics in work roles brings both parties troublesome points of view such as entitlement, resentment, indifference, helplessness, abuse and adversarial perspectives. Lack of complete knowledge of "work role mechanics" prevents all in the workplace from reliably seeking, finding and harvesting the results they desire.
Furthermore, work relations are deceptively complex and include multitudes of variables, dimensions and subtle layers that are seldom appreciated. The many challenges of understanding the full landscape of work relations have inhibited the offering and the acquisition of any reliable or universal knowledge. Within these tangled complexities reside the underlying causes of the effects constantly impacting every worker, manager, recruiter, candidate and enterprise. Rare are those people or organizations that have any formal or dependable science to rely upon in diagnosing, navigating or conducting work roles in the best manner to gain maximum yields (or equally vital, to avoid negative yields). In our sophisticated world, there remains an absence of shared principles, a common language and standard methods for work roles.
There may be no area in modern society, our businesses and our lives that is so primitive, unimproved and as haphazard as the way we seek, form and sustain our work roles and the relationships within them. Few of us would tolerate this incompetence, illiteracy and ignorance in any other aspect of our businesses, lives or institutions that are important to us. Yet for most of us, bettering the outcomes of our work roles and our work relations has vital importance and potential that may ripple throughout our careers, enterprises and marketplaces as well as our societies. Knowing and applying the "mechanics of work relations" gives a person and organizations unique power and real control over their destiny.
I found this at mychoiceengine.com
Well it's official the memo came in!
Managers were told to cut down the payroll! What payroll?
They lost a store, so tighten the belt!
I wonder what TM will do for those employees that have lost everything!
Any idea?
let's all pray for our coworkers and their love ones, that they are well and on the way to recovery!
Maybe "US" employees should show support to the victims of Katrina and start a collection of fund and donate it to the Red Cross or even better to our coworkers!
Who knows Corp. can match our donations, if not we can put TM on the map!
What do you think?
Waiting for feedback!
People who lose their jobs due to the disaster may apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) which provides weekly benefits to individuals who are unemployed and not eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance compensation. You can call 1-800-621-FEMA (TTY: 1-800-462-7585) or the local unemployment office for information.
For legal help.
Local members of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division offer free legal counseling to low-income individuals. You can get information at a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) that 1-800-621-FEMA (TTY: 1-800-462-7585) for more information.
For donations: Red Cross on the internet many web sides have this way to do it. I already donated. Is very easy to do.Do not count on this people on nothing.Here at Houston where I live you see licence plates from Louisina everywere.
LOL..Just read this on the Onion web siteN
now to those of you who never heard of it, it is a spoof site that makes fun of everything and everyone!
I laughed so hard reading this!
If only it "WORKED", AH! TM employees would have a blast at it!
New Magic Word Discovered
'Fringle-Stumpf' Causes Your Boss To Become Ill
October 29, 1996 | Issue 30•12
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Spells and Incantations announced Monday the discovery of a new magical word. "Fringle-Stumpf," when spoken clearly by a person in the workplace, will cause that person's employer to become violently ill.
A boss experiences violent stomach pain following an employee's utterance of 'Fringle-Stumpf.' Countless CEOs have been hospitalized since the word's discovery, including Coca-Cola's Ted Loesser, whose skeletal structure is slowly dissolving due to an osteopathic ailment not yet identified by science.
"The word has been classified as a fourth-level hex," said Andrew Gottlieb, Assistant Warlock of the D.S.I., speaking for U.S. Spellmaster General Willard Henforth, who is currently on sick leave. "Anyone with sufficient runelore to activate its sinister powers can visit great woe upon the person whose signature appears on their paycheck."
Diseases ranging from scurvy to pneumonia to explosive diarrhea have afflicted test bosses at D.S.I. laboratories in Washington, while control bosses, to whom only gibberish was spoken, have suffered no more than a headache.
The new magic word is believed to be the greatest breakthrough in modern spell-casting since 1991's discovery that "Bosh-Hen-Grelob" will blind an unfaithful spouse. The most recent fourth-level hex to be discovered was 1994's "Ong-Mashar," a relatively minor discovery since it only rids the body of pinworms. It is believed, however, that an anticipated rise in pinworm-related boss illnessesmay greatly popularize "Ong-Mashar."
According to Gottlieb, he origins of the new word are as yet unclear. "It is wondered whether 'Fringle-Stumpf' was a Druidic curse, or perhaps the nameof an ancient disgruntled employee whose spirit haunts cruel bosses to this day. Then again, so long as it makes one's boss vomit blood copiously, who cares?"
As for its impact upon the modern workplace, a new golden age of benevolence on the part of bosses is predicted. "No boss will want to anger their employees now," said Craig Sundborne, assistant editor of American Magic Magazine. "Firings may remain the same, since a person who lays off an employee is technically no longer the 'boss' of the angry party, but for those employees remaining on the payroll, expect some serious restructuring."
No one is more thrilled by the discovery than America's employees. "I am Gruber, Lord of Wendy's," said fast-food worker Todd Gruber, speaking from his velvet-lined throne next to the hamburger grill. "I shall complete our customer's orders if and when it pleases me."
Gruber's employer, 61-year-old Jim Herbst, was not permitted to comment, as he was busy giving his employee a pedicure. Said Gruber, "I think I shall speak some magic words... although, if a strawberry margarita were filling my mouth I would be unable to do so." Herbst then shuffled out of the store, visibly dazed.
Dozens of corporate CEOs have been hospitalized since the discovery, which was circulating across the Internet less than two hours after its confirmation. Microsoft head Bill Gates is currently at University of Puget Sound Hospital receiving treatment for swine flu and four other diseases, while Coca-Cola chief Ted Loesser's skeletal structure is slowly dissolving due to an osteopathic ailment not yet identified by science.
"Fringle-Stumpf" is scheduled to be scribed into the National Grimioreon Wednesday at midnight by a robed magi using a quill pen dipped in virgin's blood. All loyal servants of the Unnameable Dark One are invited to attend.
New Magic Word Discovered
'Fringle-Stumpf' Causes Your Boss To Become Ill
October 29, 1996 | Issue 30•12
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Spells and Incantations announced Monday the discovery of a new magical word. "Fringle-Stumpf," when spoken clearly by a person in the workplace, will cause that person's employer to become violently ill.
Enlarge Image
A boss experiences violent stomach pain following an employee's utterance of 'Fringle-Stumpf.' Countless CEOs have been hospitalized since the word's discovery, including Coca-Cola's Ted Loesser, whose skeletal structure is slowly dissolving due to an osteopathic ailment not yet identified by science.
"The word has been classified as a fourth-level hex," said Andrew Gottlieb, Assistant Warlock of the D.S.I., speaking for U.S. Spellmaster General Willard Henforth, who is currently on sick leave. "Anyone with sufficient runelore to activate its sinister powers can visit great woe upon the person whose signature appears on their paycheck."
Diseases ranging from scurvy to pneumonia to explosive diarrhea have afflicted test bosses at D.S.I. laboratories in Washington, while control bosses, to whom only gibberish was spoken, have suffered no more than a headache.
The new magic word is believed to be the greatest breakthrough in modern spell-casting since 1991's discovery that "Bosh-Hen-Grelob" will blind an unfaithful spouse. The most recent fourth-level hex to be discovered was 1994's "Ong-Mashar," a relatively minor discovery since it only rids the body of pinworms. It is believed, however, that an anticipated rise in pinworm-related boss illnessesmay greatly popularize "Ong-Mashar."
According to Gottlieb, he origins of the new word are as yet unclear. "It is wondered whether 'Fringle-Stumpf' was a Druidic curse, or perhaps the nameof an ancient disgruntled employee whose spirit haunts cruel bosses to this day. Then again, so long as it makes one's boss vomit blood copiously, who cares?"
As for its impact upon the modern workplace, a new golden age of benevolence on the part of bosses is predicted. "No boss will want to anger their employees now," said Craig Sundborne, assistant editor of American Magic Magazine. "Firings may remain the same, since a person who lays off an employee is technically no longer the 'boss' of the angry party, but for those employees remaining on the payroll, expect some serious restructuring."
No one is more thrilled by the discovery than America's employees. "I am Gruber, Lord of Wendy's," said fast-food worker Todd Gruber, speaking from his velvet-lined throne next to the hamburger grill. "I shall complete our customer's orders if and when it pleases me."
Gruber's employer, 61-year-old Jim Herbst, was not permitted to comment, as he was busy giving his employee a pedicure. Said Gruber, "I think I shall speak some magic words... although, if a strawberry margarita were filling my mouth I would be unable to do so." Herbst then shuffled out of the store, visibly dazed.
Dozens of corporate CEOs have been hospitalized since the discovery, which was circulating across the Internet less than two hours after its confirmation. Microsoft head Bill Gates is currently at University of Puget Sound Hospital receiving treatment for swine flu and four other diseases, while Coca-Cola chief Ted Loesser's skeletal structure is slowly dissolving due to an osteopathic ailment not yet identified by science.
"Fringle-Stumpf" is scheduled to be scribed into the National Grimioreon Wednesday at midnight by a robed magi using a quill pen dipped in virgin's blood. All loyal servants of the Unnameable Dark One are invited to attend.
© Copyright 2005, Onion, Inc. All rights reserved.
wow..sorry ED can you trim the comment, too many hits on the mouse!
Sorry.
This is from Lousiana, very dramatic happenings here regarding the Tuesday Morning stores and their employees. More of us would have written sooner but we've had no power. There will be more that will write because they are outraged right now.
The Louisiana TM Regional is displaced right now. He did live in New Orleans and got out.
The Zone who lives in Texas, "FORCED" (and I use that word because that is what one told us) the Managers in our town to "get in the stores" and open the doors on Wed. despite many public and government officials warning the people here not to go out on the streets, downed trees, power lines, phone lines have been out, there are bad traffic situations, basically all types of problems everywhere.
But many managers did open because they HAD to. They did this alone with no employees ALL DAY there to be with them. What happened to the 2 people in a store rule? That goes out the door in a disaster?
That was a safety nightmare.
This man did not believe that the managers "couldn't get ahold of their employees" especially since all this town had was "high winds."
Katrina, did hit this town and the employees are affected in many ways physically, emotionally, and financially.
Many of the employees are from
New Orleans or have family there. This is very hard on us. This was very wrong of this man or whoever commanded this to take place. WE understand that we have to starat over, but give us five minutes to grasp our emotions please.
These managers were put in harms way that day and even now when they close at night with two employees. As if things right now aren't dangerous enough here inour city because it is. All they or he wanted to do was get some sales apparently. Was this only this Zone, or did this come from the top down?
Everyone is in shock and trauma right now, everyone has been affected somehow. Many employees have lots of family members from N.O. and surrounding areas in their homes right now, your hot, your house is stuffed, there's no bread or meat in town, you can't find gas, it is HARD to go to work when your heart and mind aren't are just trying to help your family and you survive.It's hard to go to work when you have no power and you can't even get yourself ready proper, then you have all the dangerous things happening in your city, but if your job is on the line. You have no choice do you?
Our hearts are grieved over what has happened to the people in our state and the states beside us.
We are so sad for those that have died, and those that can't get out still.
Please don't judge us. We are doing the best we can in difficult situtions. It's not that we "just had a bad hair day and didn't want to go to work at our jobs" it's much more than that and shame on you and anyone else at Corporate for thinking it was.
Watch some national news. Maybe that will help you out.
Our world and our lives have changed forever.
God will have no mercy on greedy mens souls. It could be his town and his family next. God forbid. We wouldn't wish any of this on our worst enemy.
We have compassion.
Guys I just wanted to share some information that was
just relayed to me.
A guy I know spoke to his friend that works at the
police department this morning and he told him
something that he said you probably won't see on the
news - which you will figure out why when reading. He
informed him that everyone needs to be extremely
careful right now and to tune in to what is really
happening around you. He said that we need to remember
that there are thousands of good people that are
elderly, children and helpless being housed with
people that are criminals and dope addicts going
through withdrawals out of no choice. He said that
there has already been a rape in the dome of a woman
by two men and they are writing graffiti on the walls
and some are going through withdrawals and have been
violent to innocent people. He said that these people
can not be contained to the dome and some are
desperate and that desperate people do things that
they might not ordinarily do. He said to heighten your
awareness and to put your
intelligence ahead of your pity. He said to not drive
with your doors
unlocked because there has been some cases in
Louisiana and one in Texas of carjacking. When you
pump gas, lock the car doors till you get finished.
Don't open your doors for solicitation. No one from
Red Cross or a reliable organization will go door to
door. Do not open your window to speak to people that
are on the side of the road. Some might be from the
disaster but some may just be taking advantage of the
situation and you and you might be in danger to open
your window.
He said to do your donations to the Red Cross or other
reliable source.
He said that we need to remember that there are
thousands of good people but they are being housed
with the bad out of no choice. They need our help but
not to try to go alone to do it for your own safety.
Bring donations to the drop off locations or notify
someone to pick it up.
I passed this on, because I have been kinda in a
trance from the disbelief of the magnitude of this.
When he told me this, I just couldn't believe that
people could hurt someone that was trying to help or
someone that is in a bad situation the same as you. I
thought why is he saying this, those people are
hurting they surely wouldn't hurt others that are
helping, but after thinking about it, I realized that
there are thousands of people with nothing and nothing
to lose, they need help.This is sad but it is
realistic, I just wanted to pass it on to you because
I just wanted you to be alert to what danger could be
out there to you and your family which ordinarily
might not be because of desperation. Please make your
children and friends aware that their sadness for the
situation could be taken advantage of.
We need to all pray really hard right now.
Chrystal Lemons
I used to work in the Zone of the man mentioned above and if any want to write TM about this his name is Dave Swiegart
yeah, he came to Lousiana, we all learned the other day to "check out the store in Hammond" he told someone. Did he ever do that? The interstate to there had been closed down just the day before.
He didn't go visit any stores that anyone in Baton Rouge, has reported or any other cities in the state that anyone knows of.
Why did he come all the way to Louisiana, anyway at the height of such chaos? 4 days after a huge hurricane, your gonna take a casual drive to some place 7 hours away to see how it's going there. Call some one and ask, save the money.
He told someone he couldn't find a room, when he was forwarned by store managers that rooms were not to be had anywhere due to evacuees everywhere and he came anyway. Then he had to drive all the way back to Texas, beause "he couldn't find a room anywhere."
Duh.....National Disaster.
Did he need to prove there had really been a hurricane or what?
What a great waste of expensive and much needed gas. Another huge waste of company money that could have been better spent on something else, like payroll for the employees of stores that were hit by the hurricane and can't be opened. These people still have to live somehow.
Who will take care of them financially now that they don't have a place to go back and work at?
How about the other Gulf Coast stores? Is anyone out there? Corporate has sent a letter out saying that 25 stores have been affected by the hurricane. Is this the truth or a ploy for who knows what in the future. To cover up their true business losses? What now they will blame their bad figures on some hurricane? Everyone know that sales were sinking along with moral long before this. That business report was not true. We know the real figures and they weren't good.
Maybe going to work might actually help them heal because they can think about something else. As for emotionaly healing do that on your own time, the world doesn't stop for you.
You sound like a bitter person. Got some issues going on inside of you? You don't actually wait on people, or help them do you? Must be a blast working for or with you.
You can get help for that you know. Just because you don't love yourself, doesn't mean someone out there doesn't love or care about you. It's called compassion.
P.S. I bet many of them would RATHER to be working instead of wandering all over the United States and wondering if their families are dead or alive.
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