How is it that it's cheaper to make a heavy, low-tech product like a stair tread half a world away and ship it here? If you follow Fox News, you "know" that it's because American workers are lazy, stupid, and overpaid. I would add that they are also drunks.
I'm 65 years old, and I have decades of experience as both an employee and employer. Whatever workers may be, it's a much bigger problem for America when managers and executives are lazy, stupid, overpaid drunks.
OK, I hear you. "If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?" It's because when I had the chance as an owner of a small business, I was a lazy, stupid, underpaid drunk. At least I wasn't overpaid, give me that.
American workers may believe that they are "entitled", but managers and executives believe that in spades. For executives to be casting aspersions on workers is a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Whether you're a worker or management, if you drink, you're likely to believe that someone else is the problem. Alcohol, your "unfaithful friend" as I call it, whispers in your ear that you can avoid responsibility and indulge yourself in fantasies without suffering the annoyance of obvious facts.
The world does depend on you after all. You can't, as Ayn Rand suggested in Atlas Shrugged, hide out in your protected enclave and let the rest of the world go to pot. In the Book of Luke Jesus says, "But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required."
Managers and executives, stop drinking now and do your job.
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