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Twenty-three Bank of America employees were traveling on the US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River a few weeks ago. Their trip was canceled, in a manner of speaking. They all survived. But that’s not the moral of the story. B of A was out-of-pocket for twenty-three air fares and money is money.
What’s a good employer to do? Demand that the employees, not the airline, repay the company. Once the currency had dried, of course. Wet twenties might stick together and give a bank customer an unearned bonus. Not like the ones B of A and its brethren handed out to themselves for losing billions.
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Even under media attention status quo for corporations stubbornly unhuman?
So, there is plenty of compassion for keeping up status quo for those at the VERY top of the totem … and their “survival” has an opulent bottom line. But the “other” strata … no loyalty? Skewed and grotesque sense of entitlement … and no sense of bonding with the rest of the company? Or does everyone feel they are a robotic part of whole and no heart and imagination or sense of corporate family. Corporate family … oxymoronic. Now going global, these corporations hampered by “nationalism” even less.
That old documentary, the Corporation, that maintained as a “legal” person characteristics of such personality are similar to those of a psychopath, narcissistic and ruthless in getting its own needs met.
go on!
you can’t make this stuff up
“Employees Are Our Most Important Asset!” When HR and marketing get together to gin up slogans like that, you know you’re up against the wall.
B of A claimed that mid-level managers made a “mistake in judgment”, and were just following routine policies for canceled business trips. Makes you wonder about those “routine policies” for lending to people statistically sure to make themselves vulnerable to cross-default, late penalty and other high-cost fees.
I believe them. Like most corporations today, they routinely under-hire for most jobs, and have few staff or managers who have ever seen or done it any other way. Those that might probably wouldn’t pass their “psych” screening tests, a hurdle intentionally designed that way.
As Glenn Greenwald points out about Obama and other politicians, we are what we do. So are corporations, whose decisions all come from real, live humans, even if their actions seem other worldly.
” Now as the entire big con game becomes more apparent, we can all thank Ronald Reagan and the slavish devotees to the grand myth for the era of sloth, stupidity and scumbags that produced a generation of toxic shit that has set America back a century and set the nation on a course towards insolvency. The ugly lie of Reaganism must be exposed, stripped naked and laid out on an autopsy table, a bit of skillful use of a scalpel utilized to peel back the rotten flesh and expose the diseased organs. In less graphic terms, the legend itself needs to be debunked. The signs of desperation in the Republican ranks are encouraging as well as the books that are beginning to be written, books like Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth, the first of what I hope will be an attempt to strip away the revisionist history of the past three decades or so and allow for a national rejuvenation along to a return to true American values of economic fairness, equality and compassion that have been buried under a mountain of manure. “
In order to roll back the creeping tide of fascism that has become so much a part of all that is American in early 2009 it is of utmost importance that Reaganism be recognized as the product of right-wing crackpots who in a mere quarter century have gutted this country in the name of voodoo economics and promoted an authoritarian dogma that served as a springboard for the rule of the Bush-Cheney-Rove Axis of Evil and the corruption of every relevant institution that has been staffed by fascism enabling cronies, zealots, crooks, grifters, con-artists, jack booted thugs and flim flam men. Such is the system as it exists today and as we now slowly begin to sift through the wreckage it is the mutated capitalist strain virus of Reaganism that infected the body, destroyed the immune system once known as checks and balances and then metastasized further into the global financial system which is now in freefall and widespread unrest threatens to bring down entire governments.
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What? Middle managers couldn’t call any executives about this? Does everyone at BoA have their head so far up their ass they couldn’t see how wrong this was let alone how it would play in the media?
So you think this shows corporations aren’t human. They care not for people or Country only money. Their are many more examples where people die because they want to save a buck. The efforts of American Corporations to make or save a buck has caused our present crisis and everything that has torn the country down for years. They even now have given a shot to the worlds economy. There is nothing wrong with making money but some morals and care for the people that are what feeds that money supply should come into consideration. They litterally are killing the goose that laid there golden egg and then asking that same goose to bail them out. Irony No insanity Yes.
Few object to making money. It’s how and at what cost, especially costs illegitimately outsourced onto others through government immunities from liability and government’s carving special exceptions to environmental and other laws meant to protect the many from the few.
What’s happened in politics since Newt Gingrich’s ascension in the early 1990’s has parallels in business. Principally, that’s the intentional severing of ties between senior managers and the places and people that make up their resources, their suppliers and their customers. Gingrich banned his Republicans from having ordinary social commerce with Democrats, allowing the easy conversion of political adversaries into demons. Boards, top executives and legions of external advisers have done the same with private businesses, lest social commitment lessen the zeal with which people are turned into cash.
Secondarily, it’s the rise to prominence, arguably the dominance, of “private equity” asset-stripping as a model for all businesses. Organizing the enterprise to endure through good times and bad is ridiculed. Those who do it are themselves outsourced. Stripping the organization of resources, under the rubric of cost-cutting, and turning them into ready cash is the order of the day. Globalization and outsourcing are expressions of both, as is greater filtering in the types of personalities hired.