03-20-2013, 08:08 PM
LRRPF52 Wrote:G36 sight above bore height is a deal-breaker for me. Ergo's suck a la HK, who refuses to listen to guys who have decades of high quality saturation experience as subject matter experts on infantry small arms. HK can't be told, put simply. Their designs are uberperfekt in their minds, and they don't really have many original designs to speak of, considering that their most popular lines are from pre-War and WWII German companies that had a few engineers escape to Spain (CETME), and Eugene Stoner.
This is what stuck out the most for me. There are no key performance parameters established. How do you move forward with that?
The mindset of some German/Swiss/Austrian companies really seems to revert to the whole "Aryan Superiority" thought process.
A very good friend was on the BMW Board of Directors. He had to fly over to Germany several times yearly. They always arranged for his travel far in advance, and they always paid about 3 times what he would have paid if he had purchased the ticket. He pointed that out to them, and asked that he be allowed to buy his own ticket and have it reimbursed. They very gently but firmly told him that his travel arrangements would be done as they were done for all directors. He pointed out that it was costing the company 3 times what it should. They replied that they would re-evaluate when the time came to renew the travel arrangements contract with their travel agency. Nothing ever changed. It drove him nuts, because he is an extremely conservative financial manager, even watching someone else waste other peoples money drives him crazy!
But that seems to be the mind set of many of those otherwise well run companies.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt