Comments on: Ready…aim…fired!

By: anni koltun glenn

anni koltun glenn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:27:52 +0000

do you need volunteers i can help?

By: Geri

Geri — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:40:23 +0000

Hi Duchesse,

I will keep you updated. Darla may come and work with us at FOF. We’re discussing it.

Geri

By: Duchesse

Duchesse — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:23:37 +0000

Toby: Hear, hear! Beautifully expressed.

The only description that disturbed me about Darla is “does not suffer fools gladly.” Sometimes people like this-and I am one- can be abrasive and judgmental. You are perceived as “not a team player”. Kiss of death.

A friend got the same treatment as Darla. She had written comments on one of those employee satisfaction surveys; she read it it to me. I said, “This is going to cost you your job” . She said, “But it’s anonymous”. I told her, you have written so much that your ‘voice’ is as identifiable as if you’d signed it.

Often unconsciously people quit the game of shutting up and being a “team player” because they just don’t have the heart- and stomach- to play anymore.

Do keep us updated on Darla, and best wishes to her.

By: Geri Brin

Geri Brin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:04:34 +0000

It is scary. Companies, however, are ‘hiring” unpaid interns by the droves–while they fire paid employees–and our children have to compete for these. I agree with every single word you write.

By: Toby Wollin

Toby Wollin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:41:04 +0000

In this economy, what companies want is a workforce that is afraid. People who are NOT afraid have ‘an attitude’ and must be weeded out as examples. I’ve seen the latest ‘productivity’ figures – they are higher than ever, even with millions of people out of work and “woops, we just found another 800K jobs that were lost..so sorry..silly of us, really”. Why? Because anyone who has a job, even a poor one, with poor working conditions, and lousy management, is grateful to have it and afraid to lose it. So, people keep their heads down, and don’t speak up, and don’t criticize and don’t offer new ideas, and are basically kept off-balance. And America’s businesses and industries are the worse off for it. And countries such as China, with national industrial policy and major investment in infrastructure and boldness move quickly and steadily on…and we are left in the dust, with fewer and fewer jobs for our children, and more and more families made homeless, and more and more fear.