The Affordable Miserie

Hank Paulson choke in the fucking money

2011-12-07T08:18:00.002Z

kaiser report

2011-10-13T20:52:00.000+01:00

That's right folks

2011-10-12T09:51:00.002+01:00

bersuit

2011-08-29T17:22:00.001+01:00

consensus

2011-07-05T19:17:00.001+01:00

bon appetit

2011-05-11T12:34:00.000+01:00

what about the trade off ....

2011-04-12T11:04:00.000+01:00

profit versus human dignity where do we draw a line?
low cost ...for whom?

great and noble thing

2011-04-11T18:37:00.001+01:00

Food for thought

2011-04-11T18:10:00.001+01:00

people

2011-02-11T00:06:00.000Z

It is almost repeated ad nauseam that the human “resource”, element, person, employee is the most valuable asset of a company balance score card, or balance sheet. Particularly, in these days of relational economies or of economics based on knowledge creation and exploitation. It is a person that has the capacity to establish a relationship with another fellow human being, it is a person who thinks and might come up with a new idea, it is a person that learns new skills and might develop new ways of solving problems or might create new things.

Persons meet the customer beyond the millions of counters everywhere. They are supposed to establish “rapports” with those on the other side of the counter. The type of emotional relations, that create, in the customer, the willingness to return or to buy even more services and products. Persons make outbound and receive inbound calls, in companies, dealing with customers complaints, doubts, inquiries, needs, purchases. They are supposed to establish a good and cordial interaction with the customer regardless of this being even totally out of control due to some grievance caused by some product malfunction. Persons create new products, or processes, or systems and act on them. Persons can come up with novel solutions for old problems. Persons can invent new problems that might become virtuous cycles of value creation.

People use the gear, the computer systems, the vehicles, the procedures, fill in the paperwork, download, upload, forward the info required for companies to operate. People perform the actions that transform some raw material or energy into some new state in the process of transformation and manufacturing.

People are supposed to be willing participants in these wonderful journeys of economic development. Through their participation in these activities they can achieve some sense of fulfillment of their lives, attain some meaningful notion of self esteem. Become corporate citizens. Become the safe guards of corporate responsibility. Enact the principles of corporate integrity.

People paid at 6 dollars an hour. Do all of these?

People that the first thing they learn in meetings is to pay attention to what the boss says, keep their mouth shut and in the end agreed, preferably with visible enthusiasm to the idiotic visions of a bureaucrat that is distanced of everyday “battle fields” in the comfort of his/her office. People that are “invited” to express them selves openly in meetings, but know that the tacit hidden unspoken code is that they should conform to the culture if they want to keep their jobs. People that are told at 7 p.m. when leaving after two hours of “free work” for the company – “Are you taking the afternoon off?” or “Already leaving home?”

Three things

2010-10-03T18:07:00.000+01:00

help to sustain things as unbearable as they might be... pre scheduled quality audits (allowing for the building of the facade just in time) ... the euro-millions lottery (the renewal of hope that one might escape the schizoid situation) and the facebook (where people can lay down their complaints in a therapeutical way )

with out these valves the world would probably witnessed mass murders....

conspiracy theory

2008-10-31T22:31:00.000Z

keep it cool

2008-10-04T11:41:00.000+01:00

a touch of optimism

2008-07-13T11:21:00.000+01:00

for generation Y ....

something gotta give

2008-07-12T18:58:00.001+01:00

a life time of therapy

2008-04-30T13:33:00.000+01:00

might not be enough

Free Tibet

2008-03-23T21:41:00.001Z

Clarity

2008-03-06T23:00:00.003Z

the Age of Excess

2008-03-06T17:27:00.000Z

40K!.... what for?

generation debt

2008-02-26T16:43:00.004Z

just some more stories of disappointment

2008-02-22T15:53:00.002Z

lost dreams and wasted efforts?.... even with degree in maths......a psychologist ....... economists from Cuba.......barmaid...in social services...

Life

2008-02-14T18:37:00.000Z

could be worse?

2008-02-06T11:09:00.000Z

what about a call center or a McJob?...it shouldn't be as bad as that ....

disowned

2008-02-04T19:15:00.001Z

in the race to ...nowhere?

Shock

2008-02-03T21:27:00.002Z

a house

2008-01-30T09:58:00.000Z

or a monument to the present times....... will this house match the simple needs of it's owner? or is it just a mirror?

Orchestra

2008-01-27T18:52:00.001Z

the usual good thing

2008-01-24T14:43:00.000Z

about these idiots is that they split for minor rivalries and hate each other as much as they hate everyone else....

the "adjusted"....

2008-01-20T18:17:00.000Z

46000....at GM

rip-off

2008-01-17T10:25:00.000Z

so what else is new?... insurance... what about medical care insurance? will it work? for the chronically ill? for cancer?

a never ending story

2008-01-13T16:44:00.000Z

the torture never stops ...

customers

2008-01-10T15:25:00.000Z

voters and jobless....

machine

2008-01-04T21:36:00.000Z

bullet

2007-12-31T12:24:00.000Z

drink it up

2007-12-29T20:20:00.000Z

When Hi-C gets me low
My lubbot's blue ain't blue it's brown
my nestle's quick just makes me slow
when my sparkling cider's lost its shine
my can of sharp's is dull
hawaiian punch has knocked me cold
a feeling hits my skull.
and my mind just turns to pepsi
and i couldn't tell you why
smart drinks lead me to forget
and coke won't get me high
when constant comment won't shut up
i'll sit right down and fill my cup
with pepsi
drink it up
When diet rite to me is wrong
my country time's expired
my minute maid's an hour long
my maxwell house won't get me wired
when my pet milk turns on me
and my five alive is dead
when my royal crown's been overthrown
an impulse hits my head
and my mind just turns to pepsi and i think of it a lot
my swiss miss just wasn't pure
and kool-aid isn't hot
when a lot of smoothies rough me up
i'll turn to a bigger cup of pepsi
drink it up...
when samuel adams makes me ail
dr. pepper's not around
when sweet success has let me fail
i crave a flavor most profound
and my mind just turns to pepsi
when i look i see i buy
my crystal light has just burned out
and canada's gone dry
my yoohoo will not call to me
i am a loyal endorsee of pepsi
drink it up