Mr. Corporate, Some things have puzzled me for years that are easily acceptable to most everyone I meet. At times I swear I feel like Forest Gump when people look at me or reply to one of my thoughts. The main difference in the feeling is something I noticed that Forest accomplished and I have only recently begun to work on myself. He didn't mind that people thought he was stupid. He didn't let it hold him back from doing his best to participate in society.
I'm about to step out of a situation that I keep landing in somehow that I consider, in my non-legal trained, un-pedigreed opinion, is a crime against humanity. A corporate entity using the lives, dreams, fears of my fellow humans, to make big bucks, with low overhead and profit margins that must increase, every month, forever.
Think about that last line my friend.
These corporations fully expect to continue, raising their profits, every month, forever.
As the local corporate hancho, if you happen to get lucky and one of your people makes a good sale this month, you get earn a nice prize 'atta boy' - but while you're celebrating, the sick feeling arrives as you remember, next year, during this same month, you must make even more or you will get demerits, perhaps lose one of your benefits, maybe get fired? Any threat will do. But hey, laugh it up and don't worry none of the men and women out there on the floor you're going to force into performing this miracle for you while advising, "Thank God you have a job."
There's another corp I have witnessed, making profits yes, but in my firm opinion, destroying themselves in the process. The employees are being pushed mentally and physically to the point of dropping, quite literally, failing health.
Now Mr. Bean Counter. Think on this for a minute. You have an employee who is so good and so dedicated that they will break their own body to make bucks for you, and you're letting them?
Who you going to replace them with? You going to hire one of them people who just walks in to get their unemployment card stamped and expect to keep making money?
If you're far enough up the food chain to be part of helping ruin lives and rape your community for some corporate monster, you are smart enough to break out, take some of these fine people and build something grand while the monster finshes eating itself.
I've experienced this same scenario in more professions than the average web page visitor will believe I have worked in. You have people out there on the floor of your office, factory, shopping center who pull a rabbit out of hat every day to help you keep your job and this monster destroy everything for us.
Imagine what you could do with a dozen magicians who feel respect, compassion and faith they'll get to share the profit with you. Yes, I know, this is where the person advises that I am quite stupid. But I don't care anymore.
I challenge you though to look in the mirror, think on a few of these points, and ask, "Who/What is really the stupid one?"
Thank you for the experience.