Re: Penny Loafers

Posted by Mark - IN. on December 30, 2010 at 20:17:36 from (24.1.240.141):

In Reply to: Penny Loafers posted by Lloyd in South Carolina on December 30, 2010 at 13:26:22:

A couple of decades ago I worked downtown Chicago for about 10 years after growing up on or around farms and then doing a 4 year stint in the Army. For 10 years I used to wear a suit to work every day because the money was great. But something changed during those 10 years that made it not appealing to me anymore.

Have you ever heard the term or word "Synergy"? There is or was even some sort of imported car called a "Synergy" these days. Back in the late '80's came the word "Synergy" and it made sense at the time, as explained. What was said is that say two or three or more people do "similar" but not exactly the same job, then it makes sense to cross train them because maybe so and so goes on vacation, quits, or whatever, then the next so and so can step into the job and everything keeps functioning. That was called "Synergy" and made perfect sense. The problem with "Synergy" as that it quickly turned into job deletion because now instead of having three, four or more people that had similar but not same jobs, was that now since they were all cross trained on each others jobs, we could cut head count by deleting positions and taking those peoples duties and splitting them up amongst the others whose positions were not deleted. That is what "Synergy" morphed into. That became a very bad word that disappeared for years and decades, but has now resurfaced. A suggestion that I might make is to never turn your back on anyone that tries to sell you on the virtues of "Synergy", because there is a person that will not hesitate to cut your throat in the business world. I never lost a job due to "Synergy", but knew plenty that did.

No Lloyd, I no longer work in an office, and these days am a union telephone man that spends more time out of town than in town, but my family will always have a roof over their heads and food in their mouths if I'm living. I'm certain that the same goes for you and everyone else here. As Adirondack mentioned, it doesn't matter what you or anyone else does for a living. I joke that one night I was out at a bar drinking with my mother that got hammered, and out of the blue she stood up and shouted at everyone in the bar "If you don't put the food in my mouth, the roof over my head, and the money in my back pocket, then eat fish". Thing is, wasn't my mom that said that. It happend one night when I was out drinking with a friend and his father that owned a junk yard. Great guys, tough cookies, been in many a bar fight with them, never against them. That night was no exception because after he hollared that, the bar cut us off, and that's all that it took to clean the bar out...decades ago. I don't drink anymore, and my buddy and his father are dead thse days.

Good luck and Happy New Year Lloyd and all.

Mark

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