They must have sensed it was coming. the lifetime employees of Corning Inc.'s consumer products division must have known the troubles faced by the 149-year-old corporation. Coming's stock price refused to budge. Other old-economy companies nearby such as Xerox Corp. were shuttering factories and eliminating thousands of employees. Analysts badgered Corning top brass about unloading the slow-growth unit that made casserole dishes and other kitchen-ware. Still, thoughts of carving off 30% of the corporation-its signature business-rattled CEO Roger G. Ackerman, himself a lifetime employee. "It hurt to admit that we couldn't make it in consumer products," Ackerman acknowledges. "We stood in front of all the people in consumer products and told them we were selling. People started to cry," recounts the executive, who in college learned something about stress management when he made ends meet by collecting tolls at night on the Garden State Parkway near Newark, N. J.
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机译：他们一定已经感觉到它即将到来。康宁公司消费产品部门的终身雇员必须知道这家拥有149年历史的公司所面临的麻烦。康明的股价拒绝波动。附近的其他旧经济公司，例如施乐公司，正在关闭工厂并裁员数千人。分析师对康宁高层负责人表示，要卸掉制作砂锅菜肴和其他厨具的缓慢增长的装置。尽管如此，还是想砍掉该公司30％的股份，这是该公司的标志性业务，该公司首席执行官罗杰·阿克曼（Roger G. Ackerman）本人是终身雇员。阿克曼承认：“承认我们不能在消费产品中制造它，这实在令人痛心。”这位高管回忆说：“我们站在消费品行业的所有人面前，告诉他们我们正在销售。人们开始哭泣。”这位高管在大学期间通过夜间在花园里收取通行费来维持生计，从而学到了有关压力管理的知识。新泽西州纽瓦克附近的州立公园路
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