The cluelessness of modern business is what's motivating me to move out to startup land.
You'll find it well settled with numerous other people probably much like yourself: intelligent, well-educated, motivated and competent. All of the things that modern business refuses to tolerate.
The problem is when a lazy nurse that does more harm than good can't be fired.
The problem is the difference between reasonable and unreasonable. Someone doing "more harm than good" being fired is reasonable. What hospital administrators (read: corporate middle managers) and the rest of the "I'm too capitalist for my money clip/screw everyone else" crowd want is the ability to fire anyone at any time for any reason and that is unreasonable, because it will lead to the exact same problems.
This myth that capitalism is some kind of neo-Darwinist game show needs to go. Now.
Corporate Culture is a euphemism. It stands for slavery, tyranny, autocracy, theft, subterfuge, treachery, incompetence, and the infliction of suffering upon the weak by the unjust. Simply put, it is everything that society claims to oppose.
Yes, it's unfortunate that people who dedicate their lives to the care of the sick and injured can't be fired by some blow-dried corporate fuck because his golf game got canceled.
Short term planning -- Probably necessary because nobody knows the direction the market will be moving in.
Self-perpetuating cycle. Short term planning causes the market to be unstable. One generation ago, everyone knew the direction the market was moving in. It wasn't a problem. Rat fuck lying cheat middle managers MAKE it a problem so they can steal other people's paychecks then blame "market direction."
Besides, this doesn't seem to have affected most businesses that have been around for decades (Coke, IBM, Microsoft, etc.)
Nothing affects giant piles of cash.
In some instances, a natural monopoly will arise, which means that is what the market is able to support.
Monopolies repel capital. They are anti-capitalism.
This isn't a problem with capitalism, it's a problem with human nature.
This explains why most middle managers can't handle capitalism. They can't bargain. They won't accept a market price. When forced to participate in the market they whine. In other words, they are motherfucking liars and cheats.
Did I say there was anything wrong with capitalism?
Capitalism is not "fuck over everyone and everything in order to cash in," despite the Slashdot anti-everyone-else philosophy.
Also, any company where the management does nothing but play golf goes under FAST.
No they don't. They do just fine. Tall dollars can make up for incompetence that would make most people drop to one knee and weep. As long as they have total control, total ownership and free perpetual slave labor, any business can acquire as much financing as their incompetence demands. Shit, filing bankruptcy is practically a loan guarantee!
1)Game is written by independent studio Wolfpack 2)Ubi agrees to publish (2nd publisher)
2.1) Publisher obligates developer to unrealistic schedule. 2.2) Developer complains it will affect quality 2.3) Developer complaint goes to voice mail during prolonged phone call about golf
3)Game doesn't do as well as hoped 4)Ubi buys out Wolfpack 5)Time passes
5.1) Some new management hire exclaims "we still own this??" 5.2) Nobody answers since entire management team is at golf tournament
6)Ubi dumps the monthly fee making it a free game 7)Ubi fires all of Wolfpack
7.1) Management celebrates with weekend golf trip. 7.2) Developers complain to voice mail
8)Wolfpack reforms as a 3rd party and now runs SB for Ubi, but still free.
8.1) Management got what they wanted out of their original "investment": total control, total ownership and perpetual free labor
Cue Slashdot apologists for the "capitalist" status quo.
As an investor, if a company came to me asking for money for a project, and they said their last project put another investor in the hole, namely me, I would be weary.
Yes of course. Because as we all know, the only indicator of future success is a long unbroken string of flawless, perfect success.
The business that hires people without telling them "we're going to fuck you out of this job in six months."
Who's fault is it that you are incapable of providing sufficient value to a company to justify the wages you want?
"Sufficient value." Scam. Sufficient value is whatever some motherfucking liar says it is, meaning it ain't whatever you got hired for and there went the job.
If there is _anything_ that companies can be counted on to do
It's lie to the people they hire and then fuck them out of their jobs.
If you provide $40,000 worth of value to a company, you shouldn't realistically expect them to pay you $50,000, can you?
Whoever sucks the most ass gets the tallest dollars.
That's where diversifying your skillset is necessary.
Scam. None of this bullshit existed even one generation ago. It's all a fucking scam. A bunch of motherfucking liars stealing other people's paychecks. Face it. FACE IT. Stop the babbling about supply and demand and the babbling about skillsets and the horseshit about "sufficient value" and all that mass of shit swirling around the bowl. It's all hay-fed fragrant HORSE SHIT. Qualified people with immense skill sets are fired from jobs on a daily basis for no reason at all.
Let's go back to the Disney example because it is perfect, and it shuts down the horseshit cold.
Disney fired all of their animators recently. Canada, Florida, Europe, Australia, Japan. All of them. These people are irreplaceable. They're like astronauts. They can never be replaced. Ever. Disney fired them all. Destroyed their careers. Hundreds of people who had dedicated their educations and professional lives to their craft were thrown into the street for absolutely no reason at all. None.
Now let's go through the list.
a) provide something the other people can't
Check. There are no other Disney animators in this solar system.
b) do something better than the other people
Check. Disney was the best in the world. Billions of dollars at the box office.
c) do it for cheaper
Oops. The animators wanted to have light and food. Layoffs for all!
"But, but!" they say. "What if 2D animation wasn't a good enough market any more? What if Disney couldn't afford to pay their animators?"
2D animation is still a multi-billion dollar business, even in North America. There are FOUR HUNDRED animation studios in Japan. And Disney couldn't make money? Please.
So the conclusion is simple: Disney destroyed an 80 year tradition of some of the finest animation known to mankind. They did it deliberately, and they did it for no reason whatsoever.
AND THEN THEY SPENT SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS TO BUY PIXAR.
"the future of Nintendo and the Wii aren't assured."
"Next Generation reports that third party developers may not really 'get' the ambitious console."
Nintendo consistently builds better products? WHAAAAHAAA. Yeah right.
Scoreboard. They just got through owning E3.
That is why Sony took them for a ride with the PS1.
Oh you mean back when Nintendo invented the console market? Baserunners don't win games. Nintendo just cleared the bases. There's nothing left but a vapor trail.
But then you mention apple.
Oh yeah, the other company that wins in every market.
So I get my own word that lost all meaning to rebutt your fud.
You don't understand what I'm saying, and I don't know how to dumb it down any further for you.
Lack of substantive response to two well-written and very clear explanations and concession of the point noted.
No, you just spend a lot of time stomping your feet
I speak the truth. It's not my problem if you don't get it. This is the first generation that will do worse than the previous one. We're stressed, financially and emotionally. We're in debt. We're out of work far too often. Our educations are being wasted.
And it is the fault of middle management in our businesses. They are deliberately incompetent. They are failing to utilize fully the investment society has made for our benefit, and it's wrong. Period.
the future of Nintendo and the Wii aren't assured.
FUD
Next Generation reports that third party developers may not really 'get' the ambitious console.
FUD
Any questions?
See, it's no longer a question of building a better product, which Nintendo obviously did since they pwned E3. It's getting past all the dockers-wearing bullshit shovelers with the truth. Of course, Nintendo's name was an act of simple pure genius, since even the skeptics (who are always wrong, ALWAYS wrong) can't stop talking about it.
Nintendo and Apple are the same company. They consistently build better products and consistently build a better business while the nasal voices of criticism for the sake of criticism keep trying to shout them down.
Short version: Nintendo owns your sorry ass. Shut the fuck up.
but there are a lot of jobs where just being well educated and highly motivated don't cut it.
Quoted verbatim. That is precisely the attitude that fucks good people out of their careers. They are among the select few who ARE well-educated and ARE highly motivated and THEN they find out "that doesn't cut it." The phrase "bait and switch" comes to mind. Only problem is 20 years of education and experience can't be replaced.
You may also need skills that can only be learned from experience.
That's corporate-speak for "someone else pays for training." It's all part of the same scam. If someone else doesn't pay for training, then the lying fuck ships the job off to where they can pay $5 a day. Of course, they have no clue whether the $5 a day person has any experience, education or skills at all, but what the fuck do they care? The lying fuck gets to stuff his pockets with tall dollars while good people lose their careers. It's a fucking scam.
You want to know why no one will hire you?
I don't care. You proceed from the mistaken assumption that I give a flying at mach 2 fuck whether some blow-dried phone-flipping asscrack hires me or not. I didn't ask for a job. There is nothing as worthless as a job in this society, given that companies can arbitrarily fire anyone they feel like for no reason at all. What, I'm supposed to sign a mortgage on this "right to work" horseshit scam? I'm supposed to try and build a career working for people who lie and cheat people for a living? Not a fucking chance.
It's obvious that you've got some bad feelings about your employment experiences.
I was six months from buying a house. Six months away. I lost it all. My entire career evaporated and I had to start over, from scratch, after being six months away from buying a house. Why? Because some middle manager decided the numbers on a spreadsheet didn't add up the way he wanted them to. So I and about 200 other people lost our careers. Dozens of people that I worked with lost their homes, marriages, savings, retirement, health insurance, investments, all of it, gone.
We did the right thing. We played by the rules. We did exactly what was asked of us and then some. We went to school. We got degrees. We worked for years to build careers. We did what we were supposed to do.
And some middle manager destroyed it. I worked for one boss in my entire W-4 career that wasn't a liar. Millions of people in this society have gone through the same thing and I do not understand why people not only tolerate it but defend it and then blame the people who were cheated out of what is rightfully theirs.
Slashdot Mirror
SIGH
We need a curriculum that supports inquiry and thought.
Our education system is designed to produce slaves, not scientists.
We don't value education in this society. We tell people to "put their degree last." It's not surprising that nobody cares if they are educated.
And yes, it is the fault of business.
Unfortunately, the right to privacy isn't actually in the constitution.
Ninth amendment to the Constitution:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Specific, clear and directly on point. Discussion over.
The cluelessness of modern business is what's motivating me to move out to startup land.
You'll find it well settled with numerous other people probably much like yourself: intelligent, well-educated, motivated and competent. All of the things that modern business refuses to tolerate.
Capitalism
Funny how corporate fuckitude dresses itself in "capitalism" when it wants good PR.
I can't do everything I want all the time with no restrictions!
Why not? It's the free market, right? Or, more specifically, it's the free market for some, and slavery for others.
The problem is when a lazy nurse that does more harm than good can't be fired.
The problem is the difference between reasonable and unreasonable. Someone doing "more harm than good" being fired is reasonable. What hospital administrators (read: corporate middle managers) and the rest of the "I'm too capitalist for my money clip/screw everyone else" crowd want is the ability to fire anyone at any time for any reason and that is unreasonable, because it will lead to the exact same problems.
This myth that capitalism is some kind of neo-Darwinist game show needs to go. Now.
You need a culture where experimentation is rewarded and failure is treated as a normal cost of experiments.
Well, that disqualifies modern business. NEXT!
Corporate Culture is a euphemism. It stands for slavery, tyranny, autocracy, theft, subterfuge, treachery, incompetence, and the infliction of suffering upon the weak by the unjust. Simply put, it is everything that society claims to oppose.
I'm guessing that, in most jurisdications, you can't fire someone simply because they have a blog.
Isn't it great when people say "can't fire someone?" I always chuckle.
as in the unfortunate case of nurses
Yes, it's unfortunate that people who dedicate their lives to the care of the sick and injured can't be fired by some blow-dried corporate fuck because his golf game got canceled.
Short term planning -- Probably necessary because nobody knows the direction the market will be moving in.
Self-perpetuating cycle. Short term planning causes the market to be unstable. One generation ago, everyone knew the direction the market was moving in. It wasn't a problem. Rat fuck lying cheat middle managers MAKE it a problem so they can steal other people's paychecks then blame "market direction."
Besides, this doesn't seem to have affected most businesses that have been around for decades (Coke, IBM, Microsoft, etc.)
Nothing affects giant piles of cash.
In some instances, a natural monopoly will arise, which means that is what the market is able to support.
Monopolies repel capital. They are anti-capitalism.
This isn't a problem with capitalism, it's a problem with human nature.
This explains why most middle managers can't handle capitalism. They can't bargain. They won't accept a market price. When forced to participate in the market they whine. In other words, they are motherfucking liars and cheats.
The technical term is "insufficient huevos."
Please suggest a better system than capitalism.
Did I say there was anything wrong with capitalism?
Capitalism is not "fuck over everyone and everything in order to cash in," despite the Slashdot anti-everyone-else philosophy.
Also, any company where the management does nothing but play golf goes under FAST.
No they don't. They do just fine. Tall dollars can make up for incompetence that would make most people drop to one knee and weep. As long as they have total control, total ownership and free perpetual slave labor, any business can acquire as much financing as their incompetence demands. Shit, filing bankruptcy is practically a loan guarantee!
They bought half of Pixar.
That's even better!
1)Game is written by independent studio Wolfpack
2)Ubi agrees to publish (2nd publisher)
2.1) Publisher obligates developer to unrealistic schedule.
2.2) Developer complains it will affect quality
2.3) Developer complaint goes to voice mail during prolonged phone call about golf
3)Game doesn't do as well as hoped
4)Ubi buys out Wolfpack
5)Time passes
5.1) Some new management hire exclaims "we still own this??"
5.2) Nobody answers since entire management team is at golf tournament
6)Ubi dumps the monthly fee making it a free game
7)Ubi fires all of Wolfpack
7.1) Management celebrates with weekend golf trip.
7.2) Developers complain to voice mail
8)Wolfpack reforms as a 3rd party and now runs SB for Ubi, but still free.
8.1) Management got what they wanted out of their original "investment": total control, total ownership and perpetual free labor
Cue Slashdot apologists for the "capitalist" status quo.
As an investor, if a company came to me asking for money for a project, and they said their last project put another investor in the hole, namely me, I would be weary.
Yes of course. Because as we all know, the only indicator of future success is a long unbroken string of flawless, perfect success.
And who, exactly, "owes" you a career?
The business that hires people without telling them "we're going to fuck you out of this job in six months."
Who's fault is it that you are incapable of providing sufficient value to a company to justify the wages you want?
"Sufficient value." Scam. Sufficient value is whatever some motherfucking liar says it is, meaning it ain't whatever you got hired for and there went the job.
If there is _anything_ that companies can be counted on to do
It's lie to the people they hire and then fuck them out of their jobs.
If you provide $40,000 worth of value to a company, you shouldn't realistically expect them to pay you $50,000, can you?
Whoever sucks the most ass gets the tallest dollars.
That's where diversifying your skillset is necessary.
Scam. None of this bullshit existed even one generation ago. It's all a fucking scam. A bunch of motherfucking liars stealing other people's paychecks. Face it. FACE IT. Stop the babbling about supply and demand and the babbling about skillsets and the horseshit about "sufficient value" and all that mass of shit swirling around the bowl. It's all hay-fed fragrant HORSE SHIT. Qualified people with immense skill sets are fired from jobs on a daily basis for no reason at all.
Let's go back to the Disney example because it is perfect, and it shuts down the horseshit cold.
Disney fired all of their animators recently. Canada, Florida, Europe, Australia, Japan. All of them. These people are irreplaceable. They're like astronauts. They can never be replaced. Ever. Disney fired them all. Destroyed their careers. Hundreds of people who had dedicated their educations and professional lives to their craft were thrown into the street for absolutely no reason at all. None.
Now let's go through the list.
a) provide something the other people can't
Check. There are no other Disney animators in this solar system.
b) do something better than the other people
Check. Disney was the best in the world. Billions of dollars at the box office.
c) do it for cheaper
Oops. The animators wanted to have light and food. Layoffs for all!
"But, but!" they say. "What if 2D animation wasn't a good enough market any more? What if Disney couldn't afford to pay their animators?"
2D animation is still a multi-billion dollar business, even in North America. There are FOUR HUNDRED animation studios in Japan. And Disney couldn't make money? Please.
So the conclusion is simple: Disney destroyed an 80 year tradition of some of the finest animation known to mankind. They did it deliberately, and they did it for no reason whatsoever.
AND THEN THEY SPENT SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS TO BUY PIXAR.
Discussion over.
My experience is 180 degrees away from yours. I've worked in the same (small) company for almost seven years, and currently make 105K.
I met a guy who opened a sammich stand on Neptune once.
Maybe your attitude has something to do with it?
Maybe the people doing the hiring are motherfucking liars?
Do you know what FUD means?
Yes. Here are two examples. Ready?
"the future of Nintendo and the Wii aren't assured."
"Next Generation reports that third party developers may not really 'get' the ambitious console."
Nintendo consistently builds better products? WHAAAAHAAA. Yeah right.
Scoreboard. They just got through owning E3.
That is why Sony took them for a ride with the PS1.
Oh you mean back when Nintendo invented the console market? Baserunners don't win games. Nintendo just cleared the bases. There's nothing left but a vapor trail.
But then you mention apple.
Oh yeah, the other company that wins in every market.
So I get my own word that lost all meaning to rebutt your fud.
I have a better word. PWNED.
tired
You misspelled truthful.
You don't understand what I'm saying, and I don't know how to dumb it down any further for you.
Lack of substantive response to two well-written and very clear explanations and concession of the point noted.
No, you just spend a lot of time stomping your feet
I speak the truth. It's not my problem if you don't get it. This is the first generation that will do worse than the previous one. We're stressed, financially and emotionally. We're in debt. We're out of work far too often. Our educations are being wasted.
And it is the fault of middle management in our businesses. They are deliberately incompetent. They are failing to utilize fully the investment society has made for our benefit, and it's wrong. Period.
the future of Nintendo and the Wii aren't assured.
FUD
Next Generation reports that third party developers may not really 'get' the ambitious console.
FUD
Any questions?
See, it's no longer a question of building a better product, which Nintendo obviously did since they pwned E3. It's getting past all the dockers-wearing bullshit shovelers with the truth. Of course, Nintendo's name was an act of simple pure genius, since even the skeptics (who are always wrong, ALWAYS wrong) can't stop talking about it.
Nintendo and Apple are the same company. They consistently build better products and consistently build a better business while the nasal voices of criticism for the sake of criticism keep trying to shout them down.
Short version: Nintendo owns your sorry ass. Shut the fuck up.
On the whole, small businesses make places like Wal-Mart look like saints....
Small businesses don't close a 200,000 square foot store because seven guys join a union.
Nice try.
That's not what I said. Go back and read it again
but there are a lot of jobs where just being well educated and highly motivated don't cut it.
Quoted verbatim. That is precisely the attitude that fucks good people out of their careers. They are among the select few who ARE well-educated and ARE highly motivated and THEN they find out "that doesn't cut it." The phrase "bait and switch" comes to mind. Only problem is 20 years of education and experience can't be replaced.
You may also need skills that can only be learned from experience.
That's corporate-speak for "someone else pays for training." It's all part of the same scam. If someone else doesn't pay for training, then the lying fuck ships the job off to where they can pay $5 a day. Of course, they have no clue whether the $5 a day person has any experience, education or skills at all, but what the fuck do they care? The lying fuck gets to stuff his pockets with tall dollars while good people lose their careers. It's a fucking scam.
You want to know why no one will hire you?
I don't care. You proceed from the mistaken assumption that I give a flying at mach 2 fuck whether some blow-dried phone-flipping asscrack hires me or not. I didn't ask for a job. There is nothing as worthless as a job in this society, given that companies can arbitrarily fire anyone they feel like for no reason at all. What, I'm supposed to sign a mortgage on this "right to work" horseshit scam? I'm supposed to try and build a career working for people who lie and cheat people for a living? Not a fucking chance.
It's obvious that you've got some bad feelings about your employment experiences.
I was six months from buying a house. Six months away. I lost it all. My entire career evaporated and I had to start over, from scratch, after being six months away from buying a house. Why? Because some middle manager decided the numbers on a spreadsheet didn't add up the way he wanted them to. So I and about 200 other people lost our careers. Dozens of people that I worked with lost their homes, marriages, savings, retirement, health insurance, investments, all of it, gone.
We did the right thing. We played by the rules. We did exactly what was asked of us and then some. We went to school. We got degrees. We worked for years to build careers. We did what we were supposed to do.
And some middle manager destroyed it. I worked for one boss in my entire W-4 career that wasn't a liar. Millions of people in this society have gone through the same thing and I do not understand why people not only tolerate it but defend it and then blame the people who were cheated out of what is rightfully theirs.
Defend it all you want. It's not right.