Ted Jones
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Did he bang your wife or something?Ted Jones may have been a man’s man, a hard worker, and could obviously could sell an LP to a farmer in BFE. Bachman was a prick. Doug was the fat kid on the basketball team that got put on the court to force a technical foul and did so willingly to have his day to bask in the glory. Seriously, his first “job” was to clean chalk erasers. Tool?
Did he bang your wife or something?[/quote][quote=GoodTimes]Ted Jones may have been a man’s man, a hard worker, and could obviously could sell an LP to a farmer in BFE. Bachman was a prick. Doug was the fat kid on the basketball team that got put on the court to force a technical foul and did so willingly to have his day to bask in the glory. Seriously, his first “job” was to clean chalk erasers. Tool?
[quote=B24]To be quite honest, JOnes would have been much better off staying under 5000 FA’s, and focusing heavily on increasing production. I would bet that the cost of the bottom 3000 FA’s, plus the HDQRT overhead and training/recruiting to support them, is a HUGE drain on the firm, as well as a drain on the culture. Jones could have been a rock-star through the past 18 months, but the whole growth-at-all costs mantra (and half the company being new) creates this H&R Block atmosphere. Our size seems to over-shadow our partnership structure.
I bet the top 7000 FA's could absorb the production if we lost the bottom 3000 FA's (the other 2000 are really not producing yet). And think of the overhead we could shed. The firm just needs to focus on increasing production.[/quote]My old region has about 15 new FAs since the summer regional meeting. I must imagine the FTs eventually don't give a sh*t about training with that many people going through the door.
Jones guys are like Cubs fans. They still look at the real world through their rose colored glasses. Heck, it has only been 100 years since the Cubs won the Series! Ted was a great man and I will always consider him a dear friend of the family. But what have you done for me lately Jones ?? IndyEDJAll I see is Ted Jones did this, Ted Jones did that, Ted Ted Ted. At some point EDJ is going to have to realize what Wal-Mart did in the '90s - culture lives with the present, not the past. Just as Wal-Mart gave up on slamming Sam Walton down peoples throats that never met and never could Jones will have to make the leap as well.
If he is a "tool" ...then what does that make the guy who writes about him on an internet bulletin board?Ted Jones may have been a man’s man, a hard worker, and could obviously could sell an LP to a farmer in BFE. Bachman was a prick. Doug was the fat kid on the basketball team that got put on the court to force a technical foul and did so willingly to have his day to bask in the glory. Seriously, his first “job” was to clean chalk erasers. Tool?