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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 06:36:18 GMT
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In article <31mkf7$um@tribune.usask.ca>, Henry Choy <choy@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>rjc (rjc@access1.digex.net) wrote:
>: In article <31cqpe$pbl@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
>: Richard Abrams <ricka@new-orleans.neosoft.com> wrote:
>: >Henry Choy (choy@cs.usask.ca) wrote:
>: >: Employees should do more than just doing their job well. They should
>: >: figure out how to make their company succeed.
>
>: >My, my, my. 'Figure out how to make their company succeed.' If only
>: >it were so simple. Wait until you hit the real world. Even in the
>: >business world politics count, a boss hates to be shown to be a
>: >fool. And that's what happens when you come up with ideas instead
>: >of the boss, you've become a threat to him.
>
>:   It's more fundamental than that.  There is no magic bullet
>: technique to know how to make a company succeed just as there
>: is no way to predict the stock market.
>
>Employees just do what they are told and don't think outside their
>area. Do they do this when the company's revenues are dropping?
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Of course they do!!! If they considered the company, they could effect a
few poor quarters and buy up all the stock and then crank up production and
quality again and own the place!!!! Instead they all get fired and wonder
why! But a bad idea is a hard dead end alley to back out of! The few smart
ones jump ship right before the company goes public or before the next
product crashes and burns on the market!
-RSW

>        Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie
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-RSW

