[TheForge] happy workers, happy shareholders

[Andy Vida]

LLesniak@aol.com wrote:

> Hmm...I probably shouldn't discuss this but...

	Probably right...
> 
> In a recent company meeting the head of my company said that morale isn't
> something the company can affect or impact.  In his opinion it is an outcome of
> overall company success so get back to your cubicles and find ways to work
> harder to insure company success so we can finally be happy at work!  What?
> Environment, pay, and benefits don't count for anything?  Almost makes me hope I'm
> caught in the next wave of layoffs!

	Your fearless leader sounds like a blithering idiot.  Just
	another example of what's so terribly wrong with American
	buisiness of the past 20 years.  It is precisely this attitude
	that will bury US business if it isn't abandoned.  This was
	the attitude at AT&T.  I once attended a director's breakfast
	in Bedminster (HQ).  It was the third one by this guy Lyle Clum,
	a good old boy from Jo-ja.  Anyhow, he literally told about 30
	of us that if we didn't like our jobs, we ought not let the door
	hit us in the ass on the way out.  The stunned silence that
	immediately ensued was deafening.  I so wanted to tell him to 
	kiss my ass.  Little Lyle, as well as virtually all of the
	top management at AT&T conveniently forgot who made all those
	many billions in revenues for them.  Bloody ingrates.

	If nobody is paid well enough to afford what you have to sell,
	your business is going to die no matter how good the product may
	be.  The dumbasses running the great profit centers of the USA
	appear to have been out sick or asleep when that lesson was given
	in business school.  Believe it or not, there is such a thing as
	too much profit.  Someone should clue the bozo contingent in.