Snow and Ice

I have some thoughts about the mission and the dreaded snow and ice. So here it goes. Why is it that the leaders will not allow govt cars to be on the road. Because there is a risk of them getting wrecked, and the recruiter getting hurt. But we are willing to have them risk their lives in a POV come to the office and make phone calls to high school seniors who maybe out of school. I know there are those out there that says that's the judgement call of the leadership. I have touched on this all before about the snow and ice. And another thing about the phone calls is it not about time that those things go away? I mean really we live in a age of caller id, social networking, facebook, blogs like this, and the like. What gets me is this, people know who is calling, if they answer 90% of the time they are going to tell a recruiter no their son or daughter is going to college anyway. You know what? Don't care we are doing good anyway. So honestly I don't see the point of making all these phone calls. And yes I am talking from a station commander point of view here. That is one of the most pointless prospecting tools we have is that damn phone prospecting. Why not send everyone out with a list and just knock on people's doors most of the day. I know when I did it, I found a lot of people this way. Sometimes I found people I was not out really looking for. Even the FM says this is the most effective way to get contracts. And to me the bottom line is about everything. Anyway bottom line is this. Why have these guys come in and make phone calls, I mean really is one 8 hour day going to make that big of an impact on the end game? No it won't. I mean the top brass will shut down operations in the name of training. Make everyone attend training no matter what you have going on. I have been told to tell recruiters to schedule the apt or that packet getting built and have them at training. That crap right there has hurt more people getting in than a few snow days.