Re: OT: Atheist joke

On 27 Mar 2006 14:25:50 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
On 27 Mar 2006 01:00:11 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
On 26 Mar 2006 09:55:28 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


Both the Co-op stores and the John Lew Partnership have survived
through rather turbulent times. They aren't exactly convincing examples
of metastability.

They aren't convincing examples of co-ops either. They are classic
business structures, run by megabuck CEOs, boards of directors,
accountants and attorneys. And their employees are just employees.

They don't fit your U.S.-media-condtitioned image of what constitutes a
co-op,

You always resort to insults.

That isn't an insult. You live in the U.S. and most of the information
you are going to get about co-ops is filtered through the U.S. media.
which isn't exactly sympathetic to what they see as left-wing social
experiments.

That comment is EXACTLY DIAMETRICALLY INCORRECT. Out media is so
left-wing-sympathetic as to be retch-inducing.

[snip]

The issue to me is not a definition - definitions are not worth
arguing over - but the relationship between quality and productivity
as functions of the heirarchial-to-egeletarian management of an
enterprise. Since I own such an enterprise, with 22 employees, and my
first goal is to design as much and as mind-bogglingly great
electronics as we possibly can, the issue is far from abstract to me.
Of course, your situation is precisely opposite in all respects.

With 22 employees, you aren't managing an organisation but a team. I've
worked for one company - Chessell Recorders - who were part of the
Eurotherm Group whose policy was to keep every company in the group
smaller than about 250 people, so that each company could get by
without a personnel department and that kind of impersonal
administration. Racal was supposed to work the same way. I could see
the advantages, but got out after five months when one of the
disadvantages provoked four of us to resign in the same week (which won
us an interview with the Eurotherm Group chairman and founder, much
good that that did anybody).

And your credentials are ???

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