Gwynn,
Agree with your post which I had overlooked. I believe its a case of people with no 'people skills' attempting to bulldose this through. Its like " you don't have jobs so you should be grateful for the opportunity"
Talk about not winning hearts and minds! Apparantly the words "you have chosen the losing side" have been said to a manager who elected not to join! Hows that for arrogance!
And you are right, perhaps if they had dipped into the money pot they may have had a better response from the ops folk, rather than assuming they would be happy with crumbs from the table.
The whole thing is so sad, with a little thought and understanding, not to mention a little thing called 'communication' things may have been different.
Sadder is the fact that WW failed to see what a shower they all were in failing to make BAR/Citiexpress/Bacon a success and gave the same guys another toy to break.
Nevertheless lets all hope some common sense will prevail and that the thing may stagger into life. Wonder what Barbara Cassani is doing now, perhaps Willie should give her a call!!