But, why should b-school manager types apply different inputs into their cost-benefit analyses (read: more human and humane inputs)? If you are willing to act anti-human to preserve your job, isn't it thereby justifiable for the b-schooler to do the same?
Aren't you setting back "the revolution" by stabilizing the system? Were you and every expereinced worker summarily replaced by some newbie, then the system would collpse of its own weight sooner.
As a lawyer in a soon-to-be mega-firm, I will walk out the door before I stop helping people -- even though helping people isn't always the smart career play.
peace
--- JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/15/02 7:06:15 PM,
> owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com
> writes:
>
> Chuck Grimes wrote:
> >I have systematically down graded my skill,
> efficiency, craft and
> >knowledge at work for the last twenty years working
> in private
> >shops. In the last dozen years I almost never show
> newer workers
> >anything either, and certainly never explain
> anything to a boss,
> >manager, or supervisor. I learned that detailed
> teaching skills are
> >the fast track to being replaced by cheaper labor.
>
> Tell it. I've done this with both office and
> technical knowledge. Nothing
> like this system for killing off our natural
> tendency to share knowledge and
> teach. It eats at what's left of the soul to see
> some new person floundering
> around and deliberately not help. Sorry, but...
> gotta be anti-social in
> hopes of a continuing paycheck. And don't forget to
> check the ol' employee
> mentality at the door and become a fully functioning
> socially-adjusted human
> at quitting time.
> While I root for the workers anyday in these
> class skirmishes, when we
> talk about how work *should* be, I do think we
> should distinguish between our
> building downtime into a job (pace *should* be
> determined by those who do the
> work) and witholding knowledge from coworkers (which
> is of course bad if we
> want a functioning society).
>
> > How to change it......................?
>
> good illustration to remind ourselves and each other
> that these tricks we use
> are survival tactics and not any kind of way to
> live...
>
> Jenny Brown
> Alachua County Labor Party
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