Alice
TO: All Company Employees
SUBJECT: Personnel
Alice doesn't work here anymore.
That dreaded e-mail - Alice doesn't work here anymore. No explanation, no comment, only rumors around the water cooler. The slow death by attrition marches on. The grim Corporate reaper, looking over your shoulder, counting your days.
I am really looking forward to my tax cut. I can't wait for the bucks to start rolling in. I just know that the economy will turn right around, my 401K will spring back to life from its vegetative, cadaverous state, and there will be plenty of great new jobs created.
Right - and turtles can whistle.
I am not anyone in particular, at least not to the business world. Just a small cog in a really huge machine; one that is being sent "off-shore" at a very fast rate to boot. Boot is the right word. As in, that is what I can expect to get in just a few years or months. The boot. A well tailored, expensive, designer boot in my derriere. My job is being shipped overseas.
And what do I do? Assemble garments or plastic widgets? Nope. I write title insurance. Not a job one usually thinks of as being shipped to the third world. You don't usually think of some poor starving child being paid thirteen cents a day to tell a bank is it safe to lend you money! But that is what is happening. Jobs we never thought could or would be "streamlined" out of the country are quietly heading out as fast as a Board of Directors can check the value on their stock portfolios. As fast as they can eat a twenty thousand dollar dinner with a politician. So fast the boardrooms must be on the Bonneville salt flats.
So where will my tax cut go? Certainly not to that poor person in Singapore who will get my job. No, it will be invested in new development and progress! It will create new jobs and spur economic growth! Somewhere else… But those great jobs will produce wonderful, useful things! Like healthcare, food and housing! The fact that I will not be able to afford any of the resulting new products, that therefore there will be no need for the persons doing those jobs, and that they will be laid off because there is no market demand, just doesn't enter into the Corporate directed political equation. As long as there is some way to get more money to the top one percent, everyone will benefit - provided that by everyone, you mean someone else.
Because - Alice doesn't work here anymore.
SUBJECT: Personnel
Alice doesn't work here anymore.
That dreaded e-mail - Alice doesn't work here anymore. No explanation, no comment, only rumors around the water cooler. The slow death by attrition marches on. The grim Corporate reaper, looking over your shoulder, counting your days.
I am really looking forward to my tax cut. I can't wait for the bucks to start rolling in. I just know that the economy will turn right around, my 401K will spring back to life from its vegetative, cadaverous state, and there will be plenty of great new jobs created.
Right - and turtles can whistle.
I am not anyone in particular, at least not to the business world. Just a small cog in a really huge machine; one that is being sent "off-shore" at a very fast rate to boot. Boot is the right word. As in, that is what I can expect to get in just a few years or months. The boot. A well tailored, expensive, designer boot in my derriere. My job is being shipped overseas.
And what do I do? Assemble garments or plastic widgets? Nope. I write title insurance. Not a job one usually thinks of as being shipped to the third world. You don't usually think of some poor starving child being paid thirteen cents a day to tell a bank is it safe to lend you money! But that is what is happening. Jobs we never thought could or would be "streamlined" out of the country are quietly heading out as fast as a Board of Directors can check the value on their stock portfolios. As fast as they can eat a twenty thousand dollar dinner with a politician. So fast the boardrooms must be on the Bonneville salt flats.
So where will my tax cut go? Certainly not to that poor person in Singapore who will get my job. No, it will be invested in new development and progress! It will create new jobs and spur economic growth! Somewhere else… But those great jobs will produce wonderful, useful things! Like healthcare, food and housing! The fact that I will not be able to afford any of the resulting new products, that therefore there will be no need for the persons doing those jobs, and that they will be laid off because there is no market demand, just doesn't enter into the Corporate directed political equation. As long as there is some way to get more money to the top one percent, everyone will benefit - provided that by everyone, you mean someone else.
Because - Alice doesn't work here anymore.
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