Briscoe has a contract specifically prohibiting him from talking to other teams and nobody will tell him anything. SHR's dysfunction should not be in play here or with any other employee that has the same agreement with SHR. What can they do? Nothing has been said about dissolving SHR or continuing at this point.
Employees without a contract are what is called a voluntary work force. If the company dissolves they get unemployment. On the other hand, independent contractors under contract and with an agreement to refuse to talk to other opportunities have a right to know what is happening and have a pretty good case in the courts if they can prove damages if they aren't informed so they can make other plans for next year.
We can agree to disagree, but I don't think it's callous at all to say they don't "deserve" anything. They don't. Literally. And the labor is in exchange for money. That's the deal.
Well I 100% respectfully disagree with this. The workers who actually want a future in their field will be spending a significant amount of time trying to secure their future in the field. Time, effort, emotional energy and brain power they could be putting into SHR performance. It has nothing to do with "slacking off" and everything to do with focus and attention. Put another way...there will be a SIGNIFICANT increase in people calling in sick (interviewing).
This entire last paragraph legit blew my mind.
I honestly don't know, sorry. It would be cool though!
If Gene and Tony were actually going broke, I would tend to agree with your position. The fact that neither one will be missing any meals says to me that they can do a LOT better by their employees than leaving everyone in suspended animation. Tony in particular has been on all sides of this coin. I'm truly disappointed that he seemingly has so little empathy for the people who helped build this little empire and to which a charter sale will most likely mean a substantial return on "investment" for him.
Can you prove that statement? What exactly would you like him (or them) to tell people? Daily briefings of uncertainty while they figure out details of things? The company is clearly losing money, but yet Gene & Tony continue to pay these people out of their pocket...that's not enough?
Again if certain people have contracts that forbid talking to others that is a problem. The rest? that is what unemployment insurance is for to help the transition if they can't find a job quickly. That is our system. It isn't perfect but nothing is.
I wouldn't go quite that far but yeah, if we're aware of it here, you can bet they know more than we do and knew about it before the Internet did.
Check the Rushville Social Register for those deep-pocketed Stewarts. Dairy Queen has a couple of copies on hand.
Are they closing up shop or just sending feelers out to see what the waters are if they decide to go that way. Of course here with the R-F team experts it's a done deal and they are taking the cash and going down the road.
Reality is that the top teams are trying to hire all of the top guys who are working at SHR because those guys are in demand. Gragson and Briscoe for sure and probably Berry will find work. We'll be hearing about it. Some drivers aren't going to be around to make room for them.
Toyota Driver Development live action photo.
Not sure about this, they are consistently running well now in days. Now with SHR dissolved, that will mean more resources for the likes of FRM, Penske, RFK, and Rick Ware.
Jenkins is on the job, he's a racer. I was glad he bought a charter, he will do something with it. It will be interesting to see who he gets to put in the seat. Ford losing 4 cars will have them putting some of their spotlight on FRM to take up the slack.
Tongue in cheek......there careers aren't any more ruined than a TD2 driver looking for a ride......but Tony.
This is so weird.
