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America’s  current economic woes did not come out of thin air. Its not only a matter and question of economics , interest rates , banks and the bailout and tarp funds.  It goes much deeper and was a long time coming.

Take for example this auto magazine article – or a mild press release , published in Oct 1992 dealing with  BMW’s announcement to open its American factory in North Carolina.  You have to remember that this is a highly subsidized announcement -  each state made great pitches , offers and tax saving inducements to the firm , to relocate ( move from where Germany ?), to the chosen US state.  Its more than amazing at how much is spent on these deals , whether it was in North Carolina or the Southern US states to build what are in effect “Screwdriver Plants”.

The greatest amount of value added is in the home country – be it Japan for Toyota or Nissan , or in this case Germany for BMW.  The really high paying jobs and skills are offshore , not in China at low dollars but rather back at “Head Office”.  Its only the mundane low paying jobs so to speak that are offered , after all of these great subsidies.  When one figures out the cost per worker, including all subsidies , to the American taxpayers you have to wonder if it would not just of been better to have paid the workers – or assemblers – just to stay home or go duck hunting.

Interesting – hidden in the middle of the press release gushing article – inside the paragraph dealing as to why BMW execs choose North Carolina over others ,  “not the least was easy access to air, rail, and highway routes , is the statement “And while initially up to 80 % of the components will be imported from Germany…… there is a good possibility ( although not probability) , that some type ( not types), of manufacturing capability ( not plural), may be added in the future.

And you think that your boss is a moron.

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The online internet auction seller eBay can well serve as a case in point

eBay seems to go out of its way to prove  “Who is Boss !” regardless of any of the consequences to its sales , customer relationships and ultimately its bottom line.

On eBay its the sellers who carry the load and pay the tariff – not the buyers by any chance

Listing fees , “final value sale fees”  and then a PayPal fee / tax of approximately 4 %

eBay regularly issues updates and edicts to the sellers all tied into 1984 type language of how “we are here to help you”

It apparently target markets new upcoming product revisions and systems extensively – the committees  must be deaf , dumb and plain or just plain misinformed and misdirected

Two examples

1) Good news to enhance “transparency”  sellers can now only leave positive or no feedback at all whereas the buyer

has the choice of bidding , buying or not trusting a vendor .  The seller has no such powers

Yet the buyer can hit the seller with negative feedback

Apparently some sellers were using threat of negative feedback to force or coerce buyers to  pay up for what they purchased on .   Horrors.

On top of that if a seller  http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-terms.html

2) Recently to enhance the process of non paying bidders , ebay came up with a new streamlined strategy – The Unpaid Item  Policy”

Great

Only one problem – the time limit has been conveniently reduced ( quietly) from 45 to 32 days

10 days not to be paid

10 days for the buyer to promise to pay while you wait.  If the seller is overly aggressive in requesting payment promptly   they may receive a negative comment from the buyer who has not honored their committments

lastly if the seller is dragged on further by the buyer – soon its too late to make the claim

Remember these rules and procedures are all there to help you

You can bet on one thing , eBay will always take its cut regardless right off the top

The seller is left to wonder is this all worth the effort of it all

Ebay can serve as a model of business , your boss and how the same people who ran the old pre-internet “bricks and mortar ” economy into the ground , are now back firmly and place and most likely your new boss or supervisor.

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From a managerial handbook “  You might be tempted to try to keep employees satisfied in order to maintain productivity.  That is not easy .   Employee satisfaction can be expensive .  There is only one economical alternative to addressing the employee “satisfaction”  issue.  Can you locate it on this list:

First the whole exercise sounds rather sterile , even more than elitist, coupled with Nazi like understandings of an issue similar to the concept of “The Jews are Our Misfortune”.

What might this list be in terms of employee satisfaction alternatives :

1) Increase salaries ( bad for profit levels)

2) Improve working environment and environments – again not good for bottom line profit  levels and more importantly it reduced the perceived value of the “perks”  given to management in relation to the peons doing the work and bringing home the “bacon”

“Perks of management”  have been defined and described by some as anything given to management for free that can not really be justified financially or by any other means.

Its all in relation to who has what.  Not unlike men comparing the size of the penises of the hard drives on their laptop computers.

What  a bunch of morons.  In the end the assignment will be to conduct and employee satisfaction survey or survey and both ignore any results and information obtained while penalizing and deriding any “wrong answers”.

It all comes down to plain foolishness and downright stupidity.  “I’m the boss”.

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What motivates employees ?

A good question.  What motivates employees at one point in their life may differ from other points in their lives.

Get a boss who is a young stud – a drinker , a womanizer , one who looks to screw any potential female ( or who knows what ) no matter that she may be a major client’s daughter or whatever and all you will get are financial rewards as the only measure of incentive.  Worse yet explain , or try to explain to these types that there are alternatives , and the concept of flexibility – and this may well , or always be regarded as a threat to their management status or that you are a poor employee.  “I think that you don’t like money”  was the refrain barked out to a new young father who tried to escape the world’s stupidest project dreamed up while the boss was corked on a Friday afternoon.

The comedy was that the boss had been set up by the employee at a client’s office to keep him busy and out of trouble .

One of the influential clients at hand at the spectacle remarked “He sure thinks a lot of himself”

Another pointed out “Pour a couple of drinks ( many in this case , far too many) , and watch what happens.

What a bunch of morons !

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It can be said in life and in reality very little is new. Most has been thought up or used before . No that there is anything wrong in this . Why waste time reinventing the wheel. True the tools do change but the uses and the problems or situations they solve remain the same. For example most people use their powerful computer (Core2 duo 8 million Gigs etc etc etc) , as little more than furniture or most proudly as “Solitaire Machines”.The vast majority of the rest do simple email , with such foolish and security desperate hacked programs as “Outlook Express”.

It the same and similar with management. Each claims that a new idea is 100 % theirs or at the best / worst the application of the principles of the program are “entirely theirs”. On the other side if the program fails you can bet your bottom dollar that no one will be there to talk credit and responsibility except a “faceless committee” of which non of the former self proclaimed stalwarts held any authority or sway.

“I was just a small man”…. “I was just following company procedure / procedures / emails / edicts ” etc etc etc .

Where have you heard this before ?
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Selling out is “selling out”  your principles.  Although it is and seems wrong you may have to do from time to time.  Perhaps your boss is an idiot – a moron – who believes by kytowing you he has great power.  It is an interesting lesson in life that in the end we have little control over much of anything.  And yet many live their lives in a vain attempt to control others – even declaring it in grandiose terms such as “The Rules are Golden and THEY ARE MY RULES”.  You would expect  such thoughts and management behavior from the Gestapo not in a business where the end result is supposed to be productivity not control of others.  And yet many management types act in this vain attempt that somehow that they have great control overs  ( at least in front of their faces).   They probably fall asleep ( if not in a drunken stupor) of repeating this mantra of “The Rules are Golden and They are MY RULES”.   King of the playpen , Morons of the world

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If nothing else is sacred – your self worth as well as personal integrity should be.

Do not let management make “mince meat”  out of you in order to preserve their “sacred cows”

Your remain the same person that you were with or without their approval.  Their approval or pat on your head (or threats ) mean little.  You were the same person regardless – the same person who woke up in the morning ,who got in the car or bus.   Your intrinsic value remains the same regardless.  Resist the magic swoop of logic that somehow the minute you don’t fall to their wishes , or miss a production , sales or other corporate ( top floor ) target you are somewhow of less value as a human being .  Magic ( and most faulty logic).  Have them look in the mirror.  How on earth does missing one arbritrary target of their make you any less of a human being.

In many ways it comes down to control issues on their part – pathological on their part.  If anyone has problems it is them . Look in the mirror.  Look at your own order book sonny.

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Let us go back to the very beginning . The story is a familiar one. “In the beginning God created”" ( Genesis 1:1)

We see God himself at work creating the heavens and the earth , all creatures great and small and man and women. Seven times during this account in Genesis it is reinstated that god was pleased with his labor. (“God saw that it was good).

As if to emphasize the work involved in creating the world, the second chapter of Genesis begins with God resting. “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from his work (Genesis 2:2).

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You should view your life as a proletariat.

You are working for “God” and you should be as if you are a Hindu in a caste system.

God has given you this lot in life and you should me more than grateful and know your place as being subservient to the Brahamins and other upper classes above your lot in life.

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It can often be the situation – that bringing in an outside expert can hurt more than help.  Hinder more than any way help.  It has been oft quoted than an expert is any one 50 – 75 miles away from home. In these days of rapid transport – that is a small commute.  Luckily the high cost of gasoline may deal with this plague.

At least the scourge and abuse of high gas prices has one benefit – perhaps less intimidation and abuse of visiting privileges by management and “outside consultants”.   Perhaps now before they get in the car they will think of the cost of gas before they drive.  That is unless they have the perks of a company car and gas card.  Then it may be of their benefit to use the card to show their power ( entitlement)  and just as importantly dilute their own personal mileage.

A perk of management can well be said to be anything in the realm of management payment and rewards that cannot be justified.

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The next general form of options available to you “on the job” involves compromise and the art of compromising. In some cultures – most well known the Japanese – conflict is to avoided at all times , conflict is a major taboo and sin – hence most decisions and actions are based on a compromise . On the other extreme occurs when dealing with those where there is at all times a pathological fear of failure , an abject ability to admit one is ever wrong, and coupled with the two previous traits the need to both control others and view any other co-workers who are either competent , have good ideas or suggestions as a direct threat to that person’s job and status within that industry or employment. Guess in what category most managers fall ? If your manager does not , count yourself most fortunate and lucky in life.

In cases of compromise do what you can to be a good influence. This may occur even though you may find that you to continually put up with some things , places or events that you may feel are your about your job. It can be best said- welcome to life.

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There always , at least in theory should be options to your choices in the workplace – should you or shouldn’t you , why and why not ?

First you can “sell out”- that is to do what the job requires and not allow questions of ethics , business or common sense to enter in

For example you are a cashier at a local big box superstore. You are employed (currently or at that moment) as a cashier in the express line up. A customer comes , dallies , and in the end insists that an item from the office equipment and stationary is 50 % off. You know that there are markdowns but unsure of this particular item. The customer insists. You are left with two common sense options – first put the item through promptly. After all there are a number of customers waiting in the express lineup who are getting anxious and fidgety. Option two is to offer the customer to take the item out of her shopping basket for now , or void the order while awaiting notification

Option 3 is to follow the rules . Make the customers in the line wait while another employee checks the price . Next blame ” management” for not providing clear price lists. In the end this is a case of not accepting any responsibility for your actions or your actions leading to poor customer service.

Such an approach seems to be the choice that leads most straight into a career in “management”.

Those that cannot do teach . Those that cannot teach criticize. Those that cannot teach and excel in criticism and as well accept no responsibility for their actions , while blaming others , often have a successful career in “management”

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What difference does it make ? This one basic principle – that our work serves God – has staggering implications .For one , it means that we do not have time to waste that ninety thousand hours that we spend on the job. They count for eternity.

The fact that we work for god also means that we need never be truly “unemployed”. Though at various times in our lives we may be out of a job that so to speak pays the bills m God presents us with opportunities every day to help take care of his creations – whether it is spending time with the elderly , tutoring children with learning disabilities , or keeping the house clean for other working members of the family. Of course you do need a way to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head. But even while you are out of an economically rewarding job , serving God in other way can still life your spirits and preserve your self respect.

Working for God not only assures us of “employment” but of compensation as well. Few thing take the steam out of us like feeling that our efforts are not appreciated or that we are being exploited or abused on the job. Workers slough off, even sabotage the projects on which they are employed on , when they sense that they are not being treated correctly and well. Welcome to life.

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