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Fire Grandma, She’s Dead Weight
Profit over people wasn’t always the American way
Inside baseball
Our constitution was written during a more religious, puritanical era in our country.
Our institutions, corporations, government, and families rely on a dynamic process where people learn the rules, customs, and processes and choose which ones to follow and which ones can be ignored or unevenly applied.
When someone says it’s is too “inside baseball” to explain, it means whatever they’re trying to sell you is probably not what it appears.
How many of us have worked for companies or institutions where we, the customers, have no earthly idea how ripped off they’re getting? Or, what’s really going on behind the scenes of some overly choreographed, overhyped marketing campaign.
Please don’t fire my grandma, she’s really nice
We’re all faced with ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives.
Up until about the 1980s, corporations, institutions, and the government were run largely by people placing their morals, ethics, and principles over profit, pay cuts, and productivity.
It didn’t matter that the older executive secretary was slipping a bit and largely unproductive, the…
