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Barrel of ink - Cutthroat networking
This entry was posted on 11/4/2009 2:09 AM and is filed under Barrel of ink, Ink by the barrel, Cutthroat networking.
Ah, a year off from writing has afforded me time to ponder the state of our society here is Wisconsin. There are new ideas that have jumped up in my mind regarding this train wreck of an economy. There are things that have worsened for us all. There has been a ruthless and unnecessary gutting of the middle class and its peripheral working classes. Rather than cower in defeat, I have taken a page from my Irish grand mother - "Never fuck with a guy who buys ink by the barrel." Thus my Irish and Scottish stubborn background has inspired me to create a special blog category: "Barrel of ink." This I will reserve for "special assholes." It could be any number of entities: groups; individuals; companies; departments; and, on and on.
There is this idea I have been mulling over for several years but it needed a phrase to sum it up. Dignity and empathy in the work place for all practical purposes, has become a social crime. If the worker is lucky enough to...work...he/she is to behave like a prostitute who sells their body for time worked. Working hard in hopes of a merit pay increase is futile. Working hard and fair is an altruism now reserved for dreamy-eyed, "perpetual optimist," foot soldiers that hope their good deeds will be remembered if the economy ever gets better - save your story for the Chinese, suckers. We now live in a "new norm" culture where if you are lucky enough to have a job, it is probably non-benefit; with no pay increases in the foreseeable future; less hours; minimum wage; seven-day a week work-weeks at four hours a day wrecking the whole week for 28 hours of pay; and, fraught with nepotism and "cutthroat networking."
Cutthroat networking pushes human resource departments to the limit by the hiring of friends and relatives or working for the same. Human Resources departments have just become a validation for behavior they once were set up to try to correct long before the "new normal" and its "cutthroat networking" has wafted onto the scene. Cutthroat networking is the favoring of relatives and friends – with human resource’s blessings. And what of it? Human Resource departments have been decimated by the economy too. They go along to get along - just like the rest of us.
We work in a cutthroat networking culture of, "every man for himself." Hire your drinking and smoking buddies, and relatives, and what the hell, fuck the rest of 'em. It is going to get worse for the rabble - us rabble. You know, the rabble that actually has to work in the looted society managed by the elite manipulators and apologists - perennial politicians, two-party paradigm hacks, economic ponzi goons, and thugs.
Cutthroat network yourself a job, unemployed/underemployed, dissolutioned, "new norm" Joe-blow. Cutthroat network a job, or perish.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Army Private First Class Kyle M. Hemauer, 21, of Manassas, VA, died May 23, 2005, in Afghanistan. Hemauer was assigned to the Army National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division based in Manassas, Virginia. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Kyle grew up in Chilton, Wisconsin and played foot ball for the Chilton High School Tigers where he was named to all-conference status. He is a 2002 graduate of Chilton, a city of about 3,800 in Calumet County, Wisconsin. He went on to play punter for the Northrop Grumman shipyard Apprentice School football team at Newport News, Virgina. There he studied sheet metal apprentice. He was named to the second offensive team of the All-Atlantic Central Football Conference. The Journal Sentinel went on to note that at the time of his death Hemauer was survived by his mom and dad, Andy and Ann; and two brothers, Brad and Lucas. Private First Class Kyle M. Hemauer was Wisconsin's second military service person to die in the Afghanistan War.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
94,008 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,308 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,365 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
911 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
594 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,557 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,434 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
16 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
139 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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