General Electric management is using Kansas City as the lab rat experiment. Typical GE style is to lose the business, lose the reps, start the culture over in GE style. Deep pockets think longer term.
Now we have interum, inept management, we are on our way to GE world. Z Reps stock goes down with loss of business, rendering them useless to other companies. Too bad they can't grow a pair while they still have some business. They are brain washed thinking that companies won't fight their non-compete battles for them and put them in an adjacent territory while they fight it out. There actually is safety in numbers.
Soon, very soon, Crim can go back to waiting tables when Cook jumps ship.