Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 17, 2021

Typical middle managers. They eviscerate those below them and regurgitate to higher management what those below them produced.

Trump Disciples want it to stay that way.

They believe it truly is the natural order of things.

The problem with the modern corporate jungle is that employees don’t know what box they belong in.;-D

The Seattle show ’Almost live" did a good sketch on this with their

“Ineffectual middle management suck ups”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUIQX5esnNo

At least he has a nice suit.

Mine says “Procrastinate”.

…or, to use the Anglo-Saxon terms instead of the Latinate ones: “chew ’em up” and “spit ’em out”.

For a good part of my life, my career was like a car that had only a forward gear. It was an endless succession of jobs with increasing salaries and increasing responsibilities.

My job, as a manager was to “wind them up and watch them go.”

Winding up consisted of showing them where they fit in the big picture and why the job they were doing was important and to make sure they knew what they had to do, by what time they were expected to be finished doing it and that they had the tools and the knowledge to do the job. I left the rest up to them.

A good part of the job was building a dam to stop the downhill flow of B.S.

I’ve since stepped off the hamster wheel. Fortunately, I no longer have to make “the big bucks.” I have decades of experience more than my past couple of bosses. They know it and they leave me alone except to assign work to me every now and then on the rare occasions I haven’t figured out what has to be done on my own. One of them was smart enough to call me in his office and ask for my advice – it was an unusual but nice working relationship.

I enjoy only being responsible for the outcome of my own work.

GAWD, WILEY! The best gol-darn whack on the nail head ever!

Yep

Okay, now that makes sense. At the executive level they really don’t seem to care what the product is. They just need to find enough people to fire to make it profitable.

Ah yes, why running the country like a corporation, is such a great idea.

Well there is a way to ensure that the power mega-corporations have in America is more appropriate. Cut their ties to government. End “public-private partnerships” and regulatory structures that stop competition while propping up the big corporations. End subsidies to all. The models being grown now are unholy alliances between government and the big corporations. Health insurance under Obamacare is the biggest and most obvious example of the failure of free enterprise in an industry due to politics, government intervention and crony corporatism.

This one is like testis on a giraffe, it went right over my head

I had a dream last night about getting an extremely bad review. Interspersed in the text were copies of comic strips.

Gotta keep the Baby Birds well fed.