I've been reading some management books that keep telling the same things about being ethical: Not treating subordinates like shit because they will repay you in good work, not wasting time in turf wars, always put the organisation's best interests above everything, etc.
This is exactly the opposite of what I've seen on many organisations I've been working. Leaders tend to have a profound contempt for the work of their subordinates, they will try to get rid of the best because they value submission over competence, they engage in the most childish wars that hurt the organisations very hard. They always justify their actions by saying their counterparts are greedy, evil motherfuckers that don't deserve any decency from them. As to the subordinates, these people have a belief that every human being is lazy and deceitful, so they always assume the main goal of their subordinates is to slack off and they have to be whipped to do any work. The ones they don't consider lazy or stupid are even worse because they're trying to ascend to their level, making them dangerous threats.
I'm not saying every one is like this, I have met several hard-working, honest managers that are usually exploited like hell by the sociopats above them.
I try to raise my kids to be polite to others and always have conscience that they're not alone. I'm trying to make them become intelligent, emotionally stable, mature human beings, so I give them all my love and attention and make great efforts not to spoil them.
I guess I'm doing wrong. The most successful people I know are selfish twats that obviously didn't grow up in a sane environment.
Mmm, that may be hard in Lisbon, Portugal:-)
But nevermind, I rent 1 or 2 movies a month. They're only €2,50 a piece if you don't go for the freshly released blockbuster.
A few weeks ago I tried movie rental from my cable TV provider. I used to rent movies in a local shop, but now, bye bye. I can browse the titles with my remote, pick a movie, approve the charge and watch the movie comfortably on my couch. For the same price the video rental charges me. And I save two car trips (one for getting the film and the other to return it), scratched DVDs and late return fines. I, for one, welcome our new movie streaming overlords.
I just hope the ISPs will grant the fascist copiright holders the same amount of competence, effort and dedication they devote to their paying costumers.
Yes. Europeans are tree hugging pot smoking liberal evolutionist god hating nanny state abortionist lesbian commies. Everybody knows what communists enjoy for breakfast. And they also execute non-productive elders with an injection behind the ear.
Someone has too much money in their hands. Here in Europe they're bitching the whole time about deficit and cutting expenses but, at least in Portugal, they're giving crappy netbooks to studends. Guess what. The company that makes these belongs to a good chap of our Prime Minister. For those, there is no deficit or expense cuts.
Almost everything, from classical to heavy metal, including lots of jazz, blues, soul, funk, rock, etc. Also African, Brazilian, Cuban, Spanish and Portuguese, both traditional and modern. I'm not a lot into electronic music, with the exception of hip-hop. I also listen to commercial stuff, too.
I'm not concerned if my kids listen to Lady Gaga or not. But if, when they reach adulthood, they only know that, it's tragic. Critical thinking and an open mind are essential in a proper education. And it's these that make the corporations shiver, because it makes it a lot more difficult to sell their industrially pre-fabricated shit.
obama has stated that the 'war on drugs' is now the lowest prio in law enforcement. things have, in this regard, changed a lot since bush left office.
Oh, my god! What excuse will he have to interfere with and covertly invade Latin American countries? Who are the "baddies", now? The commies? The indians?
I'm already seeing Faux News taking advantaged of all the misunderstandings around this issue to call for the invasion of Venezuela.
In my country this would be considered a case of "agent provocateur" and no charges would be admissible in court. It's outrageous that you Americans claim to be so full of freedom and someone can be convicted for caving in to provocation. This means the authorities can coerce someone to commit a crime and then charge the poor bastard. How "free".
Pedro is not Italian. It's a Spanish and Portuguese name. Mascheroni is an Italian family name. He could be anyone in any country of the Americas, where millions of Italian descendants live.
Since he's in power, poverty rate has plummeted from 42% to 28%. Oh, the horror. He nationalised mineral resources and now the poor foreign oil companies can no longer take all the oil they want for free. This is outrageous. For the first time in their lives, millions of Venezuelans have health care and education. I don't know how they can't stand so much misery.
Really, Chavez has to go before Venezuela ceases to be a third world country. I don't think the people can stand that kind of suffering.
I used to use Fedora on my home PC. It worked almost as bad as my Windows Mobile PDA. Now I use Ubuntu in the PC and I'm fine. The PDA still sucks, though.
Your post couldn't make it more clear that you're a bigot fed on Fox News propaganda.
The catholic church the evil infidels "destroyed" is still there. I visited it a few years ago. It's the main landmark in the beautiful city of Cordoba. Oh, by the way, they take great pride in their Arab heritage.
I'm European. Most people I know used to like the Americans before the stupid, illegal and outrageous invasion. Specially when the lies used to justify it were so lame that, outside of the US, only a mouth-foaming ultra-right-wing retard would buy any of them (not that our media hadn't tried).
Before the invasions the demonstrations throughout the world made it into the Guiness in number of participants. Many people I know went to a demonstrations for the first time ever. Most of them don't even know what a "neocon" is.
After Einstein, isn't Earth as much the center of the Universe as any other place? It depends fully on the reference point, and we live on Earth, after all.
Great! Now banks, corporations and governments can fire their boards and replace them with robots! This is the "killer app" everybody was waiting for. The age of the robot has come!
That's the fundamental contradiction in the right-wing free-market bullshit. Pundits are against State intervention in the economy, for privatisation of public services, for deregulation of business and, last but not least, for lowering State expenses and therefore taxes.
Except when the same State gives you a few millions of pork dollars, buying useless stuff you sell. In that particular moment, you're all for state-intervention. But since taxes for businesses and the rich are always shrinking, it's up to the common working citizen to support all these parasites.
Of course, this is completely unsustainable and will all blow up one day. But until then, let's milk some more from the State budget. Isn't freedom great?
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I've been reading some management books that keep telling the same things about being ethical: Not treating subordinates like shit because they will repay you in good work, not wasting time in turf wars, always put the organisation's best interests above everything, etc.
This is exactly the opposite of what I've seen on many organisations I've been working. Leaders tend to have a profound contempt for the work of their subordinates, they will try to get rid of the best because they value submission over competence, they engage in the most childish wars that hurt the organisations very hard. They always justify their actions by saying their counterparts are greedy, evil motherfuckers that don't deserve any decency from them. As to the subordinates, these people have a belief that every human being is lazy and deceitful, so they always assume the main goal of their subordinates is to slack off and they have to be whipped to do any work. The ones they don't consider lazy or stupid are even worse because they're trying to ascend to their level, making them dangerous threats.
I'm not saying every one is like this, I have met several hard-working, honest managers that are usually exploited like hell by the sociopats above them.
I try to raise my kids to be polite to others and always have conscience that they're not alone. I'm trying to make them become intelligent, emotionally stable, mature human beings, so I give them all my love and attention and make great efforts not to spoil them.
I guess I'm doing wrong. The most successful people I know are selfish twats that obviously didn't grow up in a sane environment.
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Mmm, that may be hard in Lisbon, Portugal :-)
But nevermind, I rent 1 or 2 movies a month. They're only €2,50 a piece if you don't go for the freshly released blockbuster.
A few weeks ago I tried movie rental from my cable TV provider. I used to rent movies in a local shop, but now, bye bye. I can browse the titles with my remote, pick a movie, approve the charge and watch the movie comfortably on my couch. For the same price the video rental charges me. And I save two car trips (one for getting the film and the other to return it), scratched DVDs and late return fines. I, for one, welcome our new movie streaming overlords.
I see an alternative Internet made of thousands of rogue connections being laid out in France and the other countries who will align on this idiocy.
I just hope the ISPs will grant the fascist copiright holders the same amount of competence, effort and dedication they devote to their paying costumers.
You forgot the flying pavés. Ever been in a French city? Don't you find it strange that the sidewalks are tarred? It all started in May 68.
do they eat their own babies there?
Yes. Europeans are tree hugging pot smoking liberal evolutionist god hating nanny state abortionist lesbian commies. Everybody knows what communists enjoy for breakfast. And they also execute non-productive elders with an injection behind the ear.
So, you wanted free market, no? There you have, choke on it. You're China's bitch, now.
t English words are vulgar and should be avoided, in favor of French substitutes.
Time to tell the French to sex off and shove their poo up their anuses. Let's go back to using the original English words.
If that is true, why is the French language so rich in profanity that they don't mind to use frequently?
Someone has too much money in their hands. Here in Europe they're bitching the whole time about deficit and cutting expenses but, at least in Portugal, they're giving crappy netbooks to studends. Guess what. The company that makes these belongs to a good chap of our Prime Minister. For those, there is no deficit or expense cuts.
Almost everything, from classical to heavy metal, including lots of jazz, blues, soul, funk, rock, etc. Also African, Brazilian, Cuban, Spanish and Portuguese, both traditional and modern. I'm not a lot into electronic music, with the exception of hip-hop. I also listen to commercial stuff, too.
I'm not concerned if my kids listen to Lady Gaga or not. But if, when they reach adulthood, they only know that, it's tragic. Critical thinking and an open mind are essential in a proper education. And it's these that make the corporations shiver, because it makes it a lot more difficult to sell their industrially pre-fabricated shit.
obama has stated that the 'war on drugs' is now the lowest prio in law enforcement. things have, in this regard, changed a lot since bush left office.
Oh, my god! What excuse will he have to interfere with and covertly invade Latin American countries? Who are the "baddies", now? The commies? The indians?
I'm already seeing Faux News taking advantaged of all the misunderstandings around this issue to call for the invasion of Venezuela.
In my country this would be considered a case of "agent provocateur" and no charges would be admissible in court. It's outrageous that you Americans claim to be so full of freedom and someone can be convicted for caving in to provocation. This means the authorities can coerce someone to commit a crime and then charge the poor bastard. How "free".
Pedro is not Italian. It's a Spanish and Portuguese name. Mascheroni is an Italian family name. He could be anyone in any country of the Americas, where millions of Italian descendants live.
Yeah, so much bullshit. Nobody can stand Chavez anymore.
Since he's in power, poverty rate has plummeted from 42% to 28%. Oh, the horror. He nationalised mineral resources and now the poor foreign oil companies can no longer take all the oil they want for free. This is outrageous. For the first time in their lives, millions of Venezuelans have health care and education. I don't know how they can't stand so much misery.
Really, Chavez has to go before Venezuela ceases to be a third world country. I don't think the people can stand that kind of suffering.
Still have some Jack Daniels left. Want some?
I used to use Fedora on my home PC. It worked almost as bad as my Windows Mobile PDA. Now I use Ubuntu in the PC and I'm fine. The PDA still sucks, though.
Your post couldn't make it more clear that you're a bigot fed on Fox News propaganda.
The catholic church the evil infidels "destroyed" is still there. I visited it a few years ago. It's the main landmark in the beautiful city of Cordoba. Oh, by the way, they take great pride in their Arab heritage.
I'm European. Most people I know used to like the Americans before the stupid, illegal and outrageous invasion. Specially when the lies used to justify it were so lame that, outside of the US, only a mouth-foaming ultra-right-wing retard would buy any of them (not that our media hadn't tried).
Before the invasions the demonstrations throughout the world made it into the Guiness in number of participants. Many people I know went to a demonstrations for the first time ever. Most of them don't even know what a "neocon" is.
Then give me any good reason why someone can not build a perfectly legal building in their own property.
What do I need wireless charging eyes? I already have two wired ones, and they work perfectly.
After Einstein, isn't Earth as much the center of the Universe as any other place? It depends fully on the reference point, and we live on Earth, after all.
Great! Now banks, corporations and governments can fire their boards and replace them with robots! This is the "killer app" everybody was waiting for. The age of the robot has come!
That's the fundamental contradiction in the right-wing free-market bullshit. Pundits are against State intervention in the economy, for privatisation of public services, for deregulation of business and, last but not least, for lowering State expenses and therefore taxes.
Except when the same State gives you a few millions of pork dollars, buying useless stuff you sell. In that particular moment, you're all for state-intervention. But since taxes for businesses and the rich are always shrinking, it's up to the common working citizen to support all these parasites.
Of course, this is completely unsustainable and will all blow up one day. But until then, let's milk some more from the State budget. Isn't freedom great?