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Originally Posted by dubman
how does this not kill you?
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Its killing me. I have had my fill with corporate america. Its a sinking ship anyway and I've decided I'm not going down with them. Phrases like "Hold it, I'm not saying I disagree with you, I'm saying you're wrong" chill me to the bone. Dissected, it reveals the true mindset of corporatism. There is no reality other than what makes me look smart and makes me more money by way of the corporation making more money. And it's shocking to people that there's 16.5% unemployment now?
I developed software for a small almost family run company based on the classic american business model. That means you build capital and use that for your re-investments, not credit. You base performance on *profits*, ie the shit you get to keep, not earnings or some enron style metric of "profitability", You keep the value in the company, not squeeze out every dime, leverage it up to the hilt, and hand it off as some frankenstein magic profit machine to some other poor sap investor like you're a speculator swapping houses.
But our success by this model made us attractive to investment arms of fuck off big corporations like GE (not to name any names). So in come all these hot shot 30 year olds in leer jets from chicago who buy up our small business and proceed to corporatize us the way the rest of the god forsaken country works. They turn our accounting department into a fantasy football pool, so that they can just sit there and watch the stats. They put a patsy in for the CEO, pass around a bunch of "Six Sigma" books so we can all educate ourselves on how to really run our company, throw in a couple moles to brow beat us with their expertise.
now people who were like family can't look each other in the eye, our decisions are based on anything but reality. I have about 6 bosses, all of them well below my education level.
So I'm getting the rock out of here because 1. its going to go down in flames eventually, just like every ponzi scheme, just like the american economy which is itself a big ponzi scheme. 2. I'd rather work a squeegie on an off-ramp than be a corporate shill, and nothing less is asked of me every day at work.
how does that not kill anybody?