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...sitting back and talking to the media about his heroic protest, Bell should go back and try to provide his Black law students with the best education possible, so that 10 years from now, they can increase the size of the pool of Black professors. Or he should quit and go educate the poor Black children who are the true victims of educational discrimination...
...guard service is really only as good as the supervision it provides," says Michael Anesta, the director of personnel for Steinway & Sons, which stopped using Burns two years ago at its Queens, N.Y., piano-manufacturing plant. Former Burns official Gary Slodowski quit in 1990 after winning the company's manager-of-the-year award. "With the LBO, the company started to deteriorate," he says. "They've got away from the building blocks, such as service and visiting clients every day. Collecting cash became the main thing. With no one to pay attention to the other details, you're going...
...former Burns vice president says that when he quit in 1990, the firm was shooting for only "95% compliance" on its own internal screening rules, and that "this was broadly ignored, or only followed on a cursory basis." Burns' managers, for example, are required to mail three requests for written references for each guard applicant. "As long as you had copies of those requests in the file, no one cared whether you actually got them back," he says. "It was documentation for the sake of compliance, as opposed to trying to really get at something...
...Nuys, Calif.-based Pinkerton's (1991 revenues: $640 million) has also suffered from turnover and service problems following a leveraged merger four years ago with a firm called California Plant Protection (CPP). Mark Savage, a former award-winning Pinkerton's manager, says he quit the company in 1990 in part because its management "was cutting corners and pushing people to their limits." In terms of clients, he adds, "companies like Burns and Pinkerton's always take for granted that they will lose business and that if they sell more than they lose, they're still growing. They...
After a growing cadre of homeless people began to disrupt the quiet confines of the library, some librarians quit in protest. They said they were sick of being hassled by street people, and Kreimer in particular. So the governing board adopted a code of conduct that barred people with "offensive" bodily hygiene and banned staring at other patrons...