As the Dust Settles

Wow! What a week it has been! And here we are counting votes...still. Do you realize that other countries CAN'T develop the technology that we have in this country (cell phones, for example) and yet we can't count a piece of paper accurately that was fed into a machine designed to read it!?!
I'll say it one more time...wow.
I started this yesterday and thought about one direction but decided to take a different track. I'll get to that part of the plan on one of these.
Today's thoughts go back to my roots. Number management.  Food cost. Restaurants.
It is impossible to make a change in food cost unless you know where you are at. Each week or month we compare numbers on purchases, inventory, and usage. A hard, actual number to see the cost of an item or the justification to even have it. Many times, in my normal world, we can see, on the spread sheet, how often we actually use or need an item. It helps us plan for menu changes or how we might try to use an item that we only use in a single, unpopular recipe.
With my last company, it was the Reuben Sandwich. It was amazing. I often said that North of Miami and Rascal House, we had the best Reuben! Problem was the rye bread, sauerkraut and corned beef were only used on that one item. Not very profitable from a restaurant standpoint. We tracked it and deemed it, however delicious it was (1 pound of pure heaven) it didn't justify its space on the shelf or the menu.
But we watched the numbers to make the decision about a specific product.
In politics, we don't do that.
In fact, we don't even check the productivity of an elected official. We just remember the name, Reuben, and think how wonderful it sounds and next time we have to try it, not knowing when it might expire on the shelf.
Now we understand that productivity and shelf life are a critical combination and still, in politics, we pay no attention.
Where are you going with this, Andy? I'm hungry and want a Reuben and....
In order to have a way to monitor our selected masters, I think we should see an expiration date, use by date, or at the VERY MINIMUM, a born on date.
Pelosi: 1993
Leahy: 1975
For examples. Or we we could put it in an easy to follow way. We will use our current president for the ease of it.
Trump (R-1)
Young, Alaska (R-17) House
Leahy, Vermont (D-7) Senate
Remember, House every 2 years, Senate every 6 years
I was in high school, barely, when these 2 were elected. And were relevant to the times that we were in. Early 70s. No expiration date.
Now the point. There is not one manager in the corporate world that will pick his termination date. Nor will an elected official. But in the corporate world, bosses or shareholders will say that it is time to move on.
We are the shareholders. We are the bosses. And I feel it's time to bid adieu to those who have anything more than a 2 next to their name.
If you're not moving up, you're moving out.