so anyway...
This was the day the window cleaners were supposed to clean the outsides of all the windows in the apartment building. When they showed up this morning, of course, the apartment management had not gone to the trouble of removing the window screens for them first. Since they have to get into the apartments to remove the screens, and since many people are not at home in mid morning, the cleaners can't do it. This very same thing happened last year too.
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When I lived in Pittsburgh, I worked at one of the largest food companies in the world (I won't tell you their name but they did claim to sell 57 varieties :-)). It was just amazing the amount of waste and plain old bone headedness that passed for corporate decision making. And this was one of the better run American corporations. During the same period, my partner worked for a major accounting firm (all I'll say it that it wasn't the one implicated in the Enron scandal). And he of course brought home his own collection of horror stories we'd sit around and laugh about.
Capitalism might be a hell of a lot better than Communism (at least the version practiced by the Soviets, Chinese, North Koreans, et.al.) but I've often wondered.... just because Soviet style Communism fell first doesn't mean that American style Capitalism is forever vindicated on the world stage as the greatest and bestest economic system forever and ever amen.
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Of course if you watch Kudlow and Kramer on CNBC you get the distinct impression that economic nirvana has already been achieved. Weren't they claiming the end of the "old economy" just a year prior to the big Internet bubble burst? Call that egg on my face an omelet and butter my toast! Without hardly missing a beat they cleaned up the mess and continued on their way as self appointed gurus of Wall St. They seem to be as reliable as the Wall Street Journal if all you read of the Journal were the opinion pages.
People pay for degrees, put on suits and call themselves experts. Deep down inside though I sometimes wonder if the whole world isn't really run by people like me.
This was the day the window cleaners were supposed to clean the outsides of all the windows in the apartment building. When they showed up this morning, of course, the apartment management had not gone to the trouble of removing the window screens for them first. Since they have to get into the apartments to remove the screens, and since many people are not at home in mid morning, the cleaners can't do it. This very same thing happened last year too.
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When I lived in Pittsburgh, I worked at one of the largest food companies in the world (I won't tell you their name but they did claim to sell 57 varieties :-)). It was just amazing the amount of waste and plain old bone headedness that passed for corporate decision making. And this was one of the better run American corporations. During the same period, my partner worked for a major accounting firm (all I'll say it that it wasn't the one implicated in the Enron scandal). And he of course brought home his own collection of horror stories we'd sit around and laugh about.
Capitalism might be a hell of a lot better than Communism (at least the version practiced by the Soviets, Chinese, North Koreans, et.al.) but I've often wondered.... just because Soviet style Communism fell first doesn't mean that American style Capitalism is forever vindicated on the world stage as the greatest and bestest economic system forever and ever amen.
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Of course if you watch Kudlow and Kramer on CNBC you get the distinct impression that economic nirvana has already been achieved. Weren't they claiming the end of the "old economy" just a year prior to the big Internet bubble burst? Call that egg on my face an omelet and butter my toast! Without hardly missing a beat they cleaned up the mess and continued on their way as self appointed gurus of Wall St. They seem to be as reliable as the Wall Street Journal if all you read of the Journal were the opinion pages.
People pay for degrees, put on suits and call themselves experts. Deep down inside though I sometimes wonder if the whole world isn't really run by people like me.
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