How Bad Will It Be?

Schein was down 6.4% today...how bad will Patterson's earning be? Did anyone hit their quarterly numbers?

 

It's going to be a blood bath... Probably worse than Schein

 

It's time to start reducing headcount at the sales side. Oh wait, everyone is either leaving or already gone.

Pivot to toilet bowl.

 

Nah, just get rid of the lazy reps.

 

Pretty sure I just heard on the earnings call that PDCO has benefited YTD $47m in FY19 from the 2017 tax law changes. Convince me otherwise if I got this wrong. Meanwhile outside sales reps lost the ability to itemize unreimbursed business expense including auto. This is worth mentioning as the company has successfully transferred a fair amount of it's tax liability directly onto employees. Not interested in turning the thread political, but the POTUS has really let us down on this one. This will hurt his support in 2020 far more than the Mueller Report.

 

So no more Patterson...

 

how can I get transferred to the animal division who seems to be doing much better? Must be because the didn’t suffer from the Anderson, Pumkinhead and Poopenheim effect.

 

It's because most of Animal Health's sales come from the AHI acquisition, a company not tainted by the likes of Anderson and his band of "leaders".

 

i think you meant to say band of “losers” of which 2 are still employed

 

Should have said 3.....my mistake....I forgot about the Guggler.