01/06: My Take on Dec 21, 2012
My Take on December 21, 2012
It’s only a big deal because there are a lot of deeply religious cretins out there, and they’re disappointed by the lack of disasters at the turn of the Christian millennium and the fact that 9/11 took their gurus (read televangelists) completely by surprise. So they’re looking for another convenient deadline. Anytime the world’s going to end, church pledges go up. Because you know, why save? - the “end times are near”. It’s an old scam ever young.
Further .. The 2012 End of the World thing is the worst. Everybody’s got a different interpretation, and the only common denominator between them is that they’re all wrong. The Maya tracked an asteroid that’s going to crash into Earth on that date. The Maya left their cities and flew to Venus and that’s the ETA of their return flight. The Maya knew that on that date there’d be a mega-earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a plague, a flash ice age, a drop in sea level, or all five. They knew that on that date the earth’s poles would reverse. On that date our yellow sun will burn out and a blue sun will take its place. The Christians knew all this only later and wrote about it in a book later controlled by zealot religo-politicians aiming to control the masses and prevent insurrection.
Maybe, just maybe, the Mayan Calendar is about cycles – spiritual cycles of forward evolution. If so, perhaps we are on to the next stage of an enhancing spiritual evolution – as a people and as a planet. Wouldn’t that be nice!
And remember, the Maya have numerous calendars – daily, seasonal, solar, lunar, long count, short count, and more. The calendar everyone has their panties in a bunch about is the Mayan Ritual Calendar – i.e., not a linear, temporal measure of the 365.25 days in a solar year. It’s measure is thought to be a cycle of 5,126 years, or from about 3115 BC to about 2012 AD. Rituals, folks – not disasters.
25/08: Rant About My Employer
Why is it that corporations pay little attention to their employees well being? No wonder some folks go "Postal". If I were of insane mind and sick reasoning I too would go blasting away at some really fucked up people in management. Those protected in their employment - i.e., the decision makers - too often disregard the past efforts of the very people who made them successful, and disgard them like a plague-ridden rodent.
Further, why is it that many in senior management and executive level positions have that sneaky, basardly way of avoiding accountability and responsibility of many of the bonehead decisions they make. Case in point:
A director decides to move a data center from Beltsville, MD to Orlando, FL, claiming they will save $3M annually. I'm delighted, thinking I'll move to Orlando. A month before I was to relocate to Orlando and resume responsibilities at the new location, management pulls the rug out from the entire project - seems they neglected to consider the customer's needs/requirements and it would actually cost them $5M per year. So what did my employer do for this $7M a year blunder? They promoted the idiot to a VP!
I have a substantiated record of saving the corporation over $16M by a process improvement methodology called Lean Six Sigma (LSS). A new manager for my group doesn't see the value of LSS in the Business Development world, so disregards any efforts for me to continue those activities. What an dumbfuck - prejudiced by his own blindness and that age-old thinking: "But we've always done it this way." This my friends is what kills a corporation.
In today's economic climate companies are circling the wagons, reducing staff, making cuts and blowing off the prime captital resource that made them successful - their employees. They will wither and die if they don't figure out that the path through the hard times ahead is not by power but by "Conscious Co-Creation". The successful pathway to gaining new business as a US Government (USG) contractor is by a massive change (leap) in the way we view the competitive landscape. Collaborative efforts are what will win new business with the USG - focused on what is best for the US Citizenry and its primary service provider, the US Government.
Further, why is it that many in senior management and executive level positions have that sneaky, basardly way of avoiding accountability and responsibility of many of the bonehead decisions they make. Case in point:
A director decides to move a data center from Beltsville, MD to Orlando, FL, claiming they will save $3M annually. I'm delighted, thinking I'll move to Orlando. A month before I was to relocate to Orlando and resume responsibilities at the new location, management pulls the rug out from the entire project - seems they neglected to consider the customer's needs/requirements and it would actually cost them $5M per year. So what did my employer do for this $7M a year blunder? They promoted the idiot to a VP!
I have a substantiated record of saving the corporation over $16M by a process improvement methodology called Lean Six Sigma (LSS). A new manager for my group doesn't see the value of LSS in the Business Development world, so disregards any efforts for me to continue those activities. What an dumbfuck - prejudiced by his own blindness and that age-old thinking: "But we've always done it this way." This my friends is what kills a corporation.
In today's economic climate companies are circling the wagons, reducing staff, making cuts and blowing off the prime captital resource that made them successful - their employees. They will wither and die if they don't figure out that the path through the hard times ahead is not by power but by "Conscious Co-Creation". The successful pathway to gaining new business as a US Government (USG) contractor is by a massive change (leap) in the way we view the competitive landscape. Collaborative efforts are what will win new business with the USG - focused on what is best for the US Citizenry and its primary service provider, the US Government.
