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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor?
Date: 1997/03/14
Date: 1997-03-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Mar14161431@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 332831DE.6055@elca-matrix.ch


In article <332831DE.6055@elca-matrix.ch> Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> writes:

> Auntie Alias wrote:
> 
> >[...]
> 
> > Do you want to see our country field the next
> > fighter aircraft ahead of schedule and way under budget? Just get
> > rid of most of the supervisors - our country will save billions
> > and have better weapons as well.
> 
> Try a job out of the military business. You won't be developping
> fighters, but there still is very much interesting stuff to do and the
> companies tend to be less hierarchized :-)

Don't be so sure.  This scenario of Auntie Alias applies to every
"big" *commercial* company I have had direct or indirect (i.e., the
same sort of lament friends have poured out over a beer about their
company) experience of.  This is simply BAU in the last decade of the
20th century...

/Jon
-- 
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com





  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-12  0:00 Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Auntie Alias
1997-03-13  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-13  0:00 ` David Wheeler
1997-03-13  0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13  0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13  0:00   ` Randall Edick
1997-03-14  0:00     ` David Taylor
1997-03-15  0:00       ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-17  0:00         ` Randall Edick
1997-03-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18  0:00             ` Randall Edick
1997-03-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-19  0:00                 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-19  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21  0:00                 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-22  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24  0:00                     ` the one and only real true kibo
1997-03-21  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-03-22  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14  0:00   ` John Apa
1997-03-17  0:00   ` Graham C. Hughes
1997-03-19  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]   ` <01bc3276$57fc1800$0902a8c0@alice>
1997-03-18  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18  0:00       ` Jay Martin
1997-03-18  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-20  0:00   ` Corey Minyard
1997-03-24  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-25  0:00     ` L. Darrell Ray
1997-03-27  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27  0:00         ` Michael Malak
1997-03-27  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-27  0:00       ` duncan
1997-04-10  0:00         ` BAT0000000
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-13  0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-03-14  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-03-13  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-13  0:00   ` David Brown
1997-03-13  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-15  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-17  0:00           ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-17  0:00             ` antialias
1997-03-18  0:00               ` nasser
1997-03-20  0:00                 ` John Apa
1997-03-19  0:00               ` John Apa
1997-03-19  0:00                 ` antialias
     [not found]               ` <33301E64.110E@delphi.dasd.honeywe <3330BE71.695@earthlink.net>
1997-03-20  0:00                 ` jim hopper
1997-03-20  0:00                   ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-13  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-03-13  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-13  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14  0:00   ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-14  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14  0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-03-21  0:00 ` antialias
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