“But then the ole Captain’s wheels started turning, and in a very Enjoy the Decline-esque way, he make a very important epiphany. Yes, it may be unfair we are giving preferential treatment to women over men. Yes, we are sacrificing a meritocracy for sexism. And yes, this will lead to lower production, lower economic growth, genuine injustice, and a lessening of standards of living. But so what? If you really sit down and think about it Corporate America isn’t worth it.
Let the women have it.”
You know, Captain … in the new female-headed corporate culture, it will not be a slow, hushed, calm, almost tranquilized, male voice reminding you of his needed TPS-Reports ohhhhhhh nooo … it will be a shrill, shouted, imagined male volume B*+ch voice ringing TPS in your ears. Yeah, I agree … better to collect unemployment and ride your gas-sipping HOG across swaths of this still-beautiful land.
The worst part about wasting time reading a long blog that has no point is reading one that complains about the state of affairs and yet has no hope.
Well Cap, let me give you some hope.
“Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells.” 2Peter 3:13
And while we’re at it, let Islam take over. For men, at least those of us over suicide bomber age, it’s not such a bad deal.
I’m pretty sure Peter wanted nothing to do with Corporate America.
I started with a large oil company when I finished my B. Sc. nearly 40 years ago. I was already cynical about the workplace by then, having seen all sorts of malarkey in the summer jobs I had before I graduated. My time in that company only confirmed the idiocies and poppycock that I encountered.
When I quit my teaching job nearly 15 years ago, I started looking for another job. A lot of things had changed since the previous time I had to do that and much of that the Captain described was painfully apparent.
One thing many of the employers approached wanted from me was to make their workplace my home away from home and that I establish a career there. Having been around the block a few times, so to speak, I knew better. All I wanted was to do my job properly, get paid for it, and go home at the end of the day.
The result was that none of them hired me. If they didn’t want to capitalize on my education, skills, and accumulated wisdom and experience, that was their loss.
No, he didn’t. At the end of the movie he went to work on a road crew with his buddy, while his co-workers went on to the same jobs at different but identical tech companies. Which was kind of the message of the film.
Deplorable Sean was quoting the Bible, which movie are you talking about?
There is only a problem with falling productivity if there is competition. Since that is illegal, no problem!, Bob’s your uncle.