[TheForge] happy workers, happy shareholders,OT OTand OT

Sun Dec 21 02:30:01 2003

 So to sum it up, they put accountants in charge of morale?

Andy Vida wrote:

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>>Hmm...I probably shouldn't discuss this but...
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>	Probably right...
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>>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!
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>	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.
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>	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.
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