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   XPost: alt.disney.the-evil-empire   
   From: dizzy@nospam.invalid   
      
   On 1 Jul 2004 08:50:45 -0700, berger@shout.net (Mike Berger) top   
   posted:   
      
   (top posting corrected)   
      
   >"Rick"  wrote in message news:<2kfia5F1n5erU1@u   
   i-berlin.de>...   
   >   
   >> Finally about ten years ago I had a boss (actually he owned   
   >> the company I was working for at the time) who in a casual   
   >> conversation explained the cold hard reality.  Corporate   
   >> America doesn't give a rat's ass whether a given employee   
   >> lives or dies, nor should they, nor are they supposed to.   
   >   
   >Wow, who was this guy who speaks for all corporations, large   
   >and small, and on what basis did he jump to this conclusion?   
      
   Because it's true.   
      
   >An interesting fact about "corporate america" is that it exists   
   >only in the same sense that you can talk about "the black   
   >population" or "hispanic population" in the country and   
   >generalize about everybody.  It's called prejudice.   
      
   Wrong.  The businessman (most of them, anyway) is forced to be an   
   asshole if he is to be successful.  That's not true for ethnic groups.   
      
   >I own a small company.  We care about our employees and they   
   >love working here.  I guess you got suckered into believing   
   >that didn't happen.   
      
   Idiot.  Of course there's the lucky exceptions.   
      
   >Meanwhile, you said you started your   
   >own company.  Did you become an asshole just because you   
   >became management?   
      
   You're the asshole.  I pity your employees.   
      
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