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AOL to be Split into 4 Units
unsupported writes "AOL is apparently dividing into four units to provide a clear direction for each. The four divisions are as follows: Audience (Advertising, and AOL IM, Moviefon, Mapquest, Netscape.com), Access (dial-up, highspeed), AOL Europe (for the foreigners), and Digital Services (Premium services, phone and music subscription). "
I get it. This is like the "work" that Darryn Stevens used to do on "Bewitched" for Larry Tate. It's a kind of shuffling papers around, bringing home briefcases, and complaining to your wife that your "work" is "demanding". It's also an excuse to bring the "boss" home for dinner.
Like Mr. Mooney on "I Love Lucy" and whatever Mike Brady's boss was called on "The Brady Bunch."
(And what's Dick Van Dyke's boss called?)
It's amazing how "work" is portrayed in these shows. (Whoops -- forgot about George Jetson's boss, too.) These idiot bosses who cause so much stress and marital stife.
But when you actually grow older and sorta merge into one of these "offices" -- as a writer, developer, coder, programmer, manager, whatever -- you realize the dirty secret: that for fuck's sake, you *do* sign stupid forms and push paper from the inbox to the outbox and fret about your idiot boss. That Larry Tate hasn't gone anywhere -- he's just gotten a different bad suit.
There's no mystery. Work is bullshit. Corporations are bullshit. You have meetings. You have "ten o'clocks". It's demoralizing. It saps your spirit. You look at old episodes of "Bewitched" and you scratch your head. Larry Tate is everywhere. "Mr. Tate, you have a couple minutes?"
Why are we so fucking derferential to the instruments of our subordination? Fuck Larry Tate and his little narrow-cut Hagar slacks and his white shirts and black ties. Here's a fucking clue for our European friends, too: the new American religion is Larry Tate. It's always been Larry Tate. It's even Larry Tate for the right-wingers who think that what America needs is "moral values". The fucking red states? They're red because everybody doesn't understand that Larry Tate is fucking everywhere. I'll take your Islamic fundamentalism and raise you one big fucking Larry Tate. Sharia? That's right. "Mr. Tate, I'm so sorry, I'll never do it again." "You're right you won't do it again, Darryn, because you're fired." "But Mr. Tate." "But nothing. Goodbye, Darryn."
Even Trump falls under the spell of Larry Tate.
Bah.
Liberals: Kill children, save murderers.
Hmm, dreaming again?
In the Real World:
Conservatives: Fuck the Kyoto treaty, let the kids suffer.
Liberals: Decrease the deficit, tax the super rich.
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