That last exchange raises a question in my mind.
Doesn't it occur to the regulars on this thread that we who have entrusted large sums of money to SUNW management should be the exact opposite of uncritical cheerleaders who operate on the theory that everything bad about SUNW is false and only good things are true?
I know people here are or have been in management in various capacities. A manager's job, according to some theories, is to hire good people and then basically snooze until there's a problem (that's an oversimplification, but it worked for me <g>).
At a shareholder's meeting, which are mostly meaningless dog and pony shows anyway, the people doing the other shareholders the biggest favor are the ones who put the hard questions to the managers, not the ones who say, "Gee I love you Scott".
FWIW, I think it's wrong that a "SUNW can do no wrong" attitude prevails on a shareholder's thread, for this or any stock. There's a difference, a very large difference IMHO, between knee-jerk bashing that we get from morons like Jim Kelley or johnd and the clear-eyed discussion of genuine problems. If we pretend there are no problems, we do ourselves a disservice.
I don't by any means think there should be an overall negative tone...otherwise why invest. But there should be balanced tone, not a Pollyana tone. No matter how much money the company has made us, we live in a real world where only the paranoid survive.
--QS |
