purringfur…….right on!

Maybe the very wealthy execs at MF will help out all their employees & share all their ill-gotten gains……yeah right…….just like they helped out all their loyal customers. Sure feel sorry for the worker bees but the execs are too busy running around trying to squeeze out every last cent to get a huge bonus before the company goes into the ground. Like they really care about anyone but themselves. Bye bye…….

I will never forgive or forget how they mismanaged/lied during this prolonged crisis while thousands of pets were sickened or killed.

They deserve nothing less than to lose their @$$ess

2CatMon, I whent to her web site too, filled with Iams cupons & of course 4 out of 5 vets recommend Iams. I just feel so sorry for people who arn’t on the web because they love their pets too. Maybe if Parade gets enough comments they might have a different article in a week or two. Always pray for the best anyhow, even if God says no.

Katie

Direct your anger over being laid off at Mr. Henderson, who delayed the recall when he knew of complaints about the food possibly back as far as December 2006, January 2007, February 2007, and into mid-March 2007.

Direct your anger at Mr. Mark Wiens, Chief Financial Officer of Menu Foods, who sold his stock on Feb. 26 and Feb. 27, 2007. That was almost 3 weeks BEFORE the initial pet food recall started.

From usatoday dot com: “The chief financial officer of Menu Foods sold almost half his shares in the company just three weeks before a massive recall of its pet food products, Canadian insider trading reports show.
CFO Mark Wiens sold 14,000 shares for $89,900 on Feb. 26 and Feb. 27. The shares are now worth about $54,000.”

http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....ares_N.htm

Where is STEVE to ask “When do the investigations begin?”

Listen online to the Menu Foods Income Fund 2006 Fourth Quarter Results conference, to I believe Mr. Henderson, talking about the price of aluminum cans going up. Well, he saved a lot of money on ingredients by buying cheap ingredients from an unknown source to please his share holders who wanted a hefty quarterly dividend check. Did you see a hefty raise? Did you see increased benefits for your families?

THOSE are the people to direct your anger at.

To the innocent Menu Foods employees who are laid off: Start sending out your resumes before your unemployment runs out. I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting to be called back. This is going to take a long time, and the picture appears very bleak for Menu. Some of the larger contracts (and they certainly share the blame as well) have turned their backs on Menu forever and are trying remake their images, and more contracts will be lost when they see their food not selling. Go back to school to learn something other than the job you are doing.

You can ask Mr. Henderson to start a “Family Fund” to help all the loyal Menu employees weather this hardship of being laid off and are trying to survive on a lower income. If you have a union, ask your union president to approach Mr. Henderson about this. Let us know what the answer is. If you can’t pay your mortgage or rent, ask Mr. Henderson if you can have a loan or ask to stay at his house (or one of many houses, if he has more than one). Ask him to pay your family’s medical bills when the situation arises.

Mark my words… The Menu Foods recall scandal will be documented in Business 101 and Public Relations 101 college textbooks as the WAY NOT TO HANDLE A RECALL. Mr. Henderson’s and Mr. Wiens’ names will be in boldface type.

Are you hearing a lot of hype on how well the company is doing? Look at the plunging stock reports for the facts. Go into the pet food aisles in grocery stores. They’re deserted. The shelves are stocked full. The stuff is NOT selling. Look at the thousands and thousands of pet owners who have vowed to never buy large company commercial pet food again. Look at the number of home cookers or raw feeders as a result. Look at the boycotts of the pet food companies’ parent companies. This is no small event in history, and you should prepare for the future of your families now.

I sincerely hope you and your families are still doing well, but any anger you feel over being laid off is misdirected at the thousands and thousands of pet owners whose pets have died or are still fighting to live as a result of Menu’s actions or lack of actions. We are not buying the food because of how Menu and its contract companies handled themselves. We now know about the pet food industry, just as you should now know how your company reacted. You can believe that your company could not speak out due to legal counsel, but look at how CEO James Burke of Tylenol handled its recall during the Tylenol tamperings. It’s a textbook case of what TO DO: think of protecting people FIRST (pets in Menu Foods’ case), and later… think of the company profits.

If Menu Foods would have followed Tylenol’s example for the recall, you would most likely still be working. I’m sorry for the innocent workers who are worried about their families’ futures and I wish them well, but Menu Foods sank its own ship.

Menu Food was not a victim of shoddy, poisonous food products from China. Menu Foods chose to take a gamble all in the name of getting supplies cheap.

I hope the company shuts down and all its officers are left destitute.