Greetings good citizen, one of my favorite hobby horses was the in your face lies the media shamelessly broadcasts for a paycheck.
If you or I did that in the performance of our jos we'd be fired with cause...or made CEO.
[Listen to me, I haven't worked in years and the above is partly the reason. To be a 'member in good standing' of the capitalist management system you have to sell the lie.
My employees and my customers liked me because I never lied to them...and I like to delude myself that my readers like me for the same reason. Conversely, My bosses lived in terror that I would expose them but I didn't because that would have made me totally unemployable.
That said, I tired of the management path that typically ended with being terminated for no reason despite much of what we do regularly defying logic...
Even back in the employee saddle I still managed to vex my superiors because they knew whose fault the problems really were...theirs.
If your assignment is flawed in the first place, whose fault is it when it goes sideways? Yours or the person who accepted it?
What am I talking about? Being given ten minutes to complete a twenty minute task, it's how I landed in management in the first place. I'm rather adept at pulling rabbits out of roasting pits [thinking my way out of tight spots usually with acceptable levels of collateral damage.]
But if the whole operation was flawed (and they ALL are due to the 'central premise' being flawed) the best I could manage was to re-arrange the deck chairs into their most favorable position.
And down they went.
Most of my resume is 'phantom' and I am in good company in that. The greatest generation would pride itself on having worked their entire career for one employer.
The ONLY people who manage that feat under 'fiat capitalism' are the progeny of the operation's owner.
Back when it was one of the nation's largest employers [due to war] the manufacturing sector was commonly referred to as 'The Gypsy Trade'. Unlike auto mechanics, machinists had wheels on their tool boxes because the only way to get a raise was to quit.
If the 'prevailing wage' in a given area was X and the guy that owned the shop down the street needed to hire more guys to meet contract he just won, that was 'raise time'. If you didn't quit, your would get nickel and dimed. If you pushed your tool box to the next shop you'd get at least quarter!
So we find where 'loyalty' died. Some blame the 'skinflint' capitalist while the capitalists blame the worker for 'taking advantage' and truth be told they were both wrong 'economically speaking'.
I remind you that it is not my purpose to tell you what to think but to provide you with something to think about!
IF 'job one' is Survival and Specialization greatly enhances our prospects for survival, this makes money 'necessary' for specialization because the learning process prevents the individual from accomplishing the tasks they need to perform to ensure their survival.
Money exists SOLELY so you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself.
Misusing money is a crime.
One of the greatest crimes being committed society wide is not paying a worker enough to live on although that crime has long since been eclipsed by denying those who refuse to live on wages that can't support them from making any money at all. [The classifying of jobs that prevent the environment from being poisoned as 'unprofitable' or, at the least, damaging to profitability are a prime example of the WIDESPREAD MISMANAGEMENT I refer to in just about every post!
The ARMY of the UNEMPLOYED has waxed enormous...were somebody to arm them the resultant bloodshed would be 'unimaginable'.
So how long [and it's already been a horrendously long time] will you put up with the 'jaw-boning' and all of the 'happy talk' coming from people who obviously don't know their ass from a hole in the ground?
Nobody [not even the mythical Trumpsters] believes things are getting 'better' or going gangbusters because the evidence to the contrary is everywhere you look.
Um, I once again belabor the obvious when I point out that this is NOT and 'Accident' or intended to be anything more than 'plausible denial'.
The 'Happy Talk' is a fig leaf. We all know what's underneath but the fig leaf pretends to cover it.
Does it disturb you that the infamous 'they' [And I mean 'the criminals'] regularly 'jaw-bone' the stock markets and the Justice system does nothing?
Why do YOU suppose what passes for our economy 'doesn't work' [despite all the myopic 'happy talk'?]
That concludes today's broadcast, tune in tomorrow when we explore whether you are an idiot or merely a simpleton?
Until next time Head,
Gegner
If you or I did that in the performance of our jos we'd be fired with cause...or made CEO.
[Listen to me, I haven't worked in years and the above is partly the reason. To be a 'member in good standing' of the capitalist management system you have to sell the lie.
My employees and my customers liked me because I never lied to them...and I like to delude myself that my readers like me for the same reason. Conversely, My bosses lived in terror that I would expose them but I didn't because that would have made me totally unemployable.
That said, I tired of the management path that typically ended with being terminated for no reason despite much of what we do regularly defying logic...
Even back in the employee saddle I still managed to vex my superiors because they knew whose fault the problems really were...theirs.
If your assignment is flawed in the first place, whose fault is it when it goes sideways? Yours or the person who accepted it?
What am I talking about? Being given ten minutes to complete a twenty minute task, it's how I landed in management in the first place. I'm rather adept at pulling rabbits out of roasting pits [thinking my way out of tight spots usually with acceptable levels of collateral damage.]
But if the whole operation was flawed (and they ALL are due to the 'central premise' being flawed) the best I could manage was to re-arrange the deck chairs into their most favorable position.
And down they went.
Most of my resume is 'phantom' and I am in good company in that. The greatest generation would pride itself on having worked their entire career for one employer.
The ONLY people who manage that feat under 'fiat capitalism' are the progeny of the operation's owner.
Back when it was one of the nation's largest employers [due to war] the manufacturing sector was commonly referred to as 'The Gypsy Trade'. Unlike auto mechanics, machinists had wheels on their tool boxes because the only way to get a raise was to quit.
If the 'prevailing wage' in a given area was X and the guy that owned the shop down the street needed to hire more guys to meet contract he just won, that was 'raise time'. If you didn't quit, your would get nickel and dimed. If you pushed your tool box to the next shop you'd get at least quarter!
So we find where 'loyalty' died. Some blame the 'skinflint' capitalist while the capitalists blame the worker for 'taking advantage' and truth be told they were both wrong 'economically speaking'.
I remind you that it is not my purpose to tell you what to think but to provide you with something to think about!
IF 'job one' is Survival and Specialization greatly enhances our prospects for survival, this makes money 'necessary' for specialization because the learning process prevents the individual from accomplishing the tasks they need to perform to ensure their survival.
Money exists SOLELY so you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself.
Misusing money is a crime.
One of the greatest crimes being committed society wide is not paying a worker enough to live on although that crime has long since been eclipsed by denying those who refuse to live on wages that can't support them from making any money at all. [The classifying of jobs that prevent the environment from being poisoned as 'unprofitable' or, at the least, damaging to profitability are a prime example of the WIDESPREAD MISMANAGEMENT I refer to in just about every post!
The ARMY of the UNEMPLOYED has waxed enormous...were somebody to arm them the resultant bloodshed would be 'unimaginable'.
So how long [and it's already been a horrendously long time] will you put up with the 'jaw-boning' and all of the 'happy talk' coming from people who obviously don't know their ass from a hole in the ground?
Nobody [not even the mythical Trumpsters] believes things are getting 'better' or going gangbusters because the evidence to the contrary is everywhere you look.
Um, I once again belabor the obvious when I point out that this is NOT and 'Accident' or intended to be anything more than 'plausible denial'.
The 'Happy Talk' is a fig leaf. We all know what's underneath but the fig leaf pretends to cover it.
Does it disturb you that the infamous 'they' [And I mean 'the criminals'] regularly 'jaw-bone' the stock markets and the Justice system does nothing?
Why do YOU suppose what passes for our economy 'doesn't work' [despite all the myopic 'happy talk'?]
That concludes today's broadcast, tune in tomorrow when we explore whether you are an idiot or merely a simpleton?
Until next time Head,
Gegner
one of my favorite hobby horses was the in your face lies the media shamelessly broadcasts for a paycheck.
ReplyDeleteIf you or I did that in the performance of our jos we'd be fired with cause...or made CEO.
The ARMY of the UNEMPLOYED has waxed enormous...were somebody to arm them the resultant bloodshed would be 'unimaginable'.
ReplyDeleteIf the 'prevailing wage' in a given area was X and the guy that owned the shop down the street needed to hire more guys to meet contract he just won, that was 'raise time'. If you didn't quit, your would get nickel and dimed. If you pushed your tool box to the next shop you'd get at least quarter!
ReplyDeleteNobody [not even the mythical Trumpsters] believes things are getting 'better' or going gangbusters because the evidence to the contrary is everywhere you look.
ReplyDeleteBut the simple like to pretend, even when ignoring the obvious presents enormous danger...
Money exists SOLELY so you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself.
ReplyDeleteMisusing money is a crime.
What am I talking about? Being given ten minutes to complete a twenty minute task, it's how I landed in management in the first place. I'm rather adept at pulling rabbits out of roasting pits [thinking my way out of tight spots usually with acceptable levels of collateral damage.]
ReplyDeleteBut if the whole operation was flawed (and they ALL are due to the 'central premise' being flawed) the best I could manage was to re-arrange the deck chairs into their most favorable position.
ReplyDeleteMoney exists SOLELY so you don't have to do EVERYTHING yourself.
ReplyDeleteMisusing money is a crime. [Misuse = Over/under paying anyone...no single talent is 'more valuable' than any other!]
What am I talking about? Being given ten minutes to complete a twenty minute task, it's how I landed in management in the first place. I'm rather adept at pulling rabbits out of roasting pits [thinking my way out of tight spots usually with acceptable levels of collateral damage.]
ReplyDeleteOne of the greatest crimes being committed society wide is not paying a worker enough to live on although that crime has long since been eclipsed by denying those who refuse to live on wages that can't support them from making any money at all. [The classifying of jobs that prevent the environment from being poisoned as 'unprofitable' or, at the least, damaging to profitability are a prime example of the WIDESPREAD MISMANAGEMENT I refer to in just about every post!
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