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A Tale from the Annals of Republican Retroactive Reality
Found at http://nancynall.com/2004/04/14/society-notes/ while looking for shit on Jack Welch. Seems like he and Rmoney are cut from the same cloth.
I had the pleasure of working for GE during Neutron Jack’s reign. On a vacation trip to New York via Amtrak, as the train passed the big GE plant at Schenectady, I commented to the conductor that I worked for that company.
He said that he had once worked for GE, too. In fact, he had worked for Jack Welch before his rise to CEO, when Welch was a department manager at Medical Systems in Milwaukee. He said that even then, Welch always had to win everything.
The conductor told a story of a company softball tournament. Welch’s team lost the final game by one run. The next day, Welch invited the player who had hit the winning run to his office, and offered him a job at a substantial increase in pay. The fellow accepted his offer, and Welch made the transfer effective retroactively to the day before the final game of the softball tournament.
Welch then pointed out a rule that all players in the company softball league had to play for the teams from their respective departments, and declared that since this fellow wasn’t an employee, on the day of the game, of the department whose team defeated his, the other team had to forfeit the title to his team.
That asshole with his end-justifies-the-means approach has been venerated and emulated by entirely too many aspiring business magnates.
He said that he had once worked for GE, too. In fact, he had worked for Jack Welch before his rise to CEO, when Welch was a department manager at Medical Systems in Milwaukee. He said that even then, Welch always had to win everything.
The conductor told a story of a company softball tournament. Welch’s team lost the final game by one run. The next day, Welch invited the player who had hit the winning run to his office, and offered him a job at a substantial increase in pay. The fellow accepted his offer, and Welch made the transfer effective retroactively to the day before the final game of the softball tournament.
Welch then pointed out a rule that all players in the company softball league had to play for the teams from their respective departments, and declared that since this fellow wasn’t an employee, on the day of the game, of the department whose team defeated his, the other team had to forfeit the title to his team.
That asshole with his end-justifies-the-means approach has been venerated and emulated by entirely too many aspiring business magnates.
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