Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 17, 2011

Where is the toe tag?

Based on the depth of the file cabinet, that must be Shorty.

Shorty doesn’t seem to mind anymore – if he ever cared in the first place, that is…

I see Shorty’s got the worst (or best, depending on the work environment) dead-end job in this company.

Well, at least Shorty’s got a corner cube like he’s always wanted.

Crap! I’m going to have to find somewhere else to sneak a nap.

Hey, Dick’s Picks numbers 20 through 50 should be in that drawer!

Heard a news story on the radio this morning. A woman died at her desk on Friday and wasn’t discovered until the next day.

Well BloomCo, at least they came to work on a Saturday to find her.

Don’t worry FishStix; Wally is far to sly to be caught like that. Anyhow the pointy haired manager is to incompetent to pull it off.

For sure it is an employers market. With unemployment still about 9% employers just say, “If you don’t take this pay cut (etc.) someone is waiting on your job.”

There’s a line around the block of mediocre replacements.

If you have spent a decade honing and improving your skills, you aren’t in that line, you’re keeping busy doing what you do best.

If you haven’t – get busy!

Justice22: This just happened to my nephew. He had been working for a company for ten years. (I won’t mention their name but their initials are CVS). He was called into the office a few months ago, and was told he could take a 30%(!) pay cut or he would be laid off. Corporate America in the 21st Century. Gotta love it.

@WaitingMan–but then they wonder why employees are not loyal to the company. When the company shows such disregard for them, why should they be loyal to such scum?

All those files on the Grateful Dead? I never figured Wiley for a Dead Head…. …. truckin…

I know why they are called “Dead Files” . Nobody ever fed them.

Ta-DUMP-bump!

@comic, a toe tag would indicate the corporation cares.

Re Corporate America -

Increased productivity is a paper scam.

The reason companies are showing an increase in productivity is because they are reducing staff and asking the remaining employees to do more.

Or, the companies are letting go higher paid, experienced employees (usually older) and replacing them with lower paid kids fresh out of college.

Either way, the companies are lowering their expenses as compared to their profits to boost their “productivity.”

This is short sighted, because, especially in service industries, reducing staff will ultimately drive away customers.

Fish Stix, these are managers! Wally has nothing to worry about. If anybody gets laid off it will be Dilbert (or some equally productive member of the team!)

Correction, make that “laid out!”

Productivity always goes up in a recession. Companies start by laying out the least productive employees raising the average level of those who remain.

Perhaps we need a law mandating that companies lay off the most productive first. The faster output falls, the more employees the company will have to keep. We’d end up with higher employment and lower GDP, the reverse of what we have now.