Friday 21 May 2010

no more Mister Nice Employee

[pic- Walmart board]
If, as I see it, bosses are getting/vaccuuming 50-100 times the pay of the front-line staff, then the usual routine of work ceases to make sense.

for example:
A certain Mr. Walsh, and the board of British Airways, has been beating up on its staff union. Meanwhile, the company is losing money,
but the board gets 4 million in bonuses, last year.
Any fairness in that? I didn't think so.
Are they breaking any laws? Unfortunate, but no. Nor for beating up on the union.

Are employees just a lifeless input to be minimised?
Or, are they vital for a company's survival?
When it's survival of the fittest, you have to ask these kind of questions.

I've been reading new business theory about how to promote
or even demand that employees provide new ideas for the company.
Of course, there's no mention of the employee being paid anything.
They might get a pat on the back.
As you can see, the board is too busy transfering company money to itself
for them to be bothered to think about improving things. So, what exactly is it that they do?

Since I was a kid, I've always thought that the Board of a company
was little more than a back-slapping club. Many guys
are on the board of 10 companies. How the F^&**K do they manage
to RUN one company, let alone deal the with conflicts of interest of 10?
Maybe the truth is that all they do is sit around, smoking and soaking up money.

"Hey, you want a Cuban cigar?"
"here, light it with a 50."
I don't even know why they exist, except to suck money.
Enough with the bullsh*t!

The point of this article is simple.
If an employee has a good idea for an improvement,
then that employee should bring in a union lawyer,
sit the company down and ask them, legally,
what that idea is worth to them.
If they don't accept the terms, the idea is sold to the
highest bidder, including competitors.
How you like them scruples, Chairs of the Bored?
Never again should an employee offer any idea to a boss
unless that boss can show the appropriate respect.

Worse yet, in these difficult times, Boards are
taking the money and running, leaving factories with debts
and employees with no jobs.
Some see this as workers' last best opportunity.
More than ever before, employees are
telling the banks to go F^&*k themselves,
taking over the factory, and making money.
Of course, you typically have to be Latin American
in order to pull this off. Anybody else have
big enough cojones?

Bosses: gone. Capitalists: gone

Let Naomi Klein explain:


-Costick67 (8^P