L.O.T.U.S.

Troubled Norfolk sports car manufacturer, Lotus Cars, this week announced yet another 200 job cuts.  Since 2000, the company has shed some 900 jobs and yet somehow always seems to maintain about the same number of people.  We'd like to say it's a boom and bust industry and that's the norm, but it simply isn't true.  Lotus cars has a unique ability to lunge from Bust to Bust with a slight levelling of fortunes in-between.  The launch of the Toyota powered Elise into the Federal market 3 years ago, should have been a boom.  But the strength of the Pound against the Dollar, meant the company sold the cars for no profit and had to make them so expensive in the states that dream of a 2 year waiting list evaporated in a little over 9 months.  Truth is Lotus Cars has been mismanaged for years, well since GM sold out in the early 90's.  Parent company Proton, wouldn't know how to design and build a car if they had Henry Ford working for them, and the current directors and senior managers of Lotus are a bunch of incompetent yes men desperate to hang onto their high salary positions.  Lots Of Twats Using Spanners would be a better name or Lotus Of Twats Utterly Spineless.

The current MD of Lotus Cars is one Clive Dopson.  A former Ford Motor Company Diesel engine man, Dopson took over at the top of the cars division in 2004.  His main interest in life is seeing how many hours to the gallon he can get from his lawn mower and he knows how many boxes of grass he has ever got off his lawn.  And this is the bloke in charge of what was once Britain’s leading sports car maker.  What a loser and what a cunt.  But good news, this twat has left too taking a huge payout in the voluntary redundancy scheme.

Director of finance, James Stronach cant add up.  Every year the company misses is budget and they only ever seem to realise in the last quarter of the financial year.

Head of Supply Chain, Selwyn Mould has no spine.  A small man, who looks as if he has had sand kicked in his eyes all his life by the bigger boys on the beach.  Mould has overseen the resource of several safety critical components to the Far East, India and South Africa.  One disaster after another.  Roll bars that don't fit the car, ball joints that fail, steering racks that knock, oil system components that leak and door latches that won't keep the door shut.  But Mould will continue to draw his massive salary while once again the troops are slaughtered.  What do they all know, this wanker has taken VR also. 

Car Manufacture is managed by the ever mincing Luke Bennett.  Nice bloke, couldn't manage a wank in a handkerchief.  Bet he doesn't go.

In fact, none of these tossers will lose their jobs, no senior managers ever go, just the troops.  Thus the top heavy structure gets even more top heavy meaning the next round of jobs cuts will be but a few months or maybe a year away. One has to ask.  Is there really any business case for keeping this year on year loss making car company going?  I don't think so, do you?

Grass cutting Dopson