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Started by RAT900, March 01, 2011, 07:53:25 AM

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Duck-Stew

#15
March 01, 2011, 06:34:27 PM
As your own productivity goes up, so does the likelihood that there will be changes in the project rendering you recent productivity null & void (& usually a few more days' work...) [roll]
Bike-less Portuguese immigrant enjoying life.

RAT900

#16
March 01, 2011, 10:15:24 PM
High producing employees must be given more work to subsidize poor performers,

high producing employees should never be promoted

they are too useful where they are
This is an insult to the Pez community

RAT900

#17
March 01, 2011, 10:30:06 PM
Force reductions/Layoffs must always target customer-interacting staff in "the field"

in order to protect the critically important jobs of internally-facing corporate staff
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RAT900

#18
March 01, 2011, 10:33:58 PM
Quote from: akmnstr on March 01, 2011, 02:19:27 PM
Rat, have you been a lifelong corporation man?  I'm picking up a twinge of angst here, but I'm liking the anti-man tone.

[popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn]

Yes I have....worked for some outstanding companies and some real clunkers...many of them no longer exist....many have no right to still exist
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ducpainter

#19
March 02, 2011, 04:08:51 AM
What gets me is that since this isn't your first trip around the block that it took this long for you to come to this realization, or rather just now got fed up enough to vent.

Curious.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Monsterlover

#20
March 02, 2011, 04:10:57 AM
Id bet my next pay check he's vented before...
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

ducpainter

#21
March 02, 2011, 04:12:07 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 02, 2011, 04:10:57 AM
Id bet my next pay check he's vented before...
Not to us. ;D
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Monsterlover

#22
March 02, 2011, 04:15:56 AM
Now you get specific..
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

ducpainter

#23
March 02, 2011, 04:17:30 AM
It's all in the recovery.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


The Architect

#24
March 02, 2011, 04:22:35 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 02, 2011, 04:17:30 AM
It's all in the recovery.

Venting to a new group (especially on the net) helps relieve the cranial pressure.  Unfortunately the relief is only temporary.  The temporary release acts as a reminder which then increase the pressure.

It's like peeling back a band-aid and poking at the wound to see if it's gotten better.  The poking only brings back the pain. 

RAT900

#25
March 02, 2011, 05:38:14 AM Last Edit: March 02, 2011, 05:48:04 AM by RAT900
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 02, 2011, 04:10:57 AM
Id bet my next pay check he's vented before...

That would be a safe bet...probably haven't spewed here before...

I think what bothers me most goes back to how Ralph Waldo Emerson put it What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say

When companies pretend they care about the work force....

some actually do and their actions show it....and generally it is also reflected in their bottom-line

those that care least tend to use email to bombard and spam employees

with insultingly false attestations of caring, concern and "evidence" of their benevolence

and yet at the end of the day, the raises do not even keep up with inflation, the benefits are cut annually with a greater contribution portion being pushed onto the employee

the undercurrent of dismissive disdain and the addiction to off-shoring employment to 3rd world sweat shops is ceaseless

If you are going to feed shit to your workers at least be up front and say "here's your platter of shit, bon appetit"...

don't say....

Hey folks we love you and want you to enjoy this exciting new dish we cooked up in your honor: Excrement Tartare with Digested Corn Garne' topped with a piquant sauce we call Revenge of Montezuma.....we are saving you a real surprise for dessert
This is an insult to the Pez community

ducpainter

#26
March 02, 2011, 05:42:10 AM
So why not step off the wheel?
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


RAT900

#27
March 02, 2011, 05:45:52 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 02, 2011, 05:42:10 AM
So why not step off the wheel?

I am 3 years shy of early retirement with vestigial medical benefits and pension (age 62)....I have to ride this out for that cheap brass ring...

if I am lucky enough to stay under the radar and not be targeted when I get too close to the finish line I am gone gone gone

This is an insult to the Pez community

ducpainter

#28
March 02, 2011, 06:17:31 AM
Quote from: RAT900 on March 02, 2011, 05:45:52 AM
I am 3 years shy of early retirement with vestigial medical benefits and pension (age 62)....I have to ride this out for that cheap brass ring...

if I am lucky enough to stay under the radar and not be targeted when I get too close to the finish line I am gone gone gone


Best that you get out your frustration here then.                               ;D
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


sbrguy

#29
March 02, 2011, 07:12:53 AM
everyone is replaceable in the workforce, everyone is expendible no matter how important the person thinks they are.

#1 rule in business, profits and money are the only goals, everything else is just pr spin.
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