A long-time in-plant manager reminisces about his in-plant’s fate after his company merged with another.

By Mike Renn

Number crunched

Unlike standard mathematics that has a way to unravel the secrets of the universe, corporate math doesn’t always add up in a way you like, even when it is correct. It is just hard sometimes to warm to the answers. Numbers are great arbitrators because they are so dispassionate. Numbers are not swayed by ridiculous print deadlines met regularly.