An Underachiever's Guide to Corporate Survival
"The Economic Man sells his labour, at a rate of money. Work is something he is prepared to do, in fair proportion to the money he gets for it. His working day is the number of hours he is willing to waste, in order to have the wherewithal to live and to enjoy his leisure."
--In Hazard, by Richard Hughes, copyrighted 1938
One cannot spend thirty years bumping along the bottom of corporate America, as I have done, without forming some opinions and developing some attitudes about the nature and purpose, not only of the work one does, but also of the people and the organizations for which one does it. Life at the bottom of the corporate pond is relatively placid; periodic rumors of layoffs are about the only currents that filter down to roil the benthic regions; but the tranquillity--some would say boredom--at the bottom affords the leisurely perspective from which one can observe the corporate workings, and permits one to speculate on the mechanisms that enable them.
This section is a collection of meditations and observations on and about corporate life as viewed from the lower strata.
The Craft of Napping
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