Honest Eyes

A voice from the past, Pierre Dolet, writes:

It’s the honest ones who are the real problem in the company. If they didn’t see with their damn clear eyes, then the rest of us could get on with the business of ignoring the bosses and their flagrant thievery.

“The bosses,” well, you know who I mean. That’s our problem, though: we say things like “the bosses” so that we can make it sound like a general bitching – if you don’t name names, they don’t really hear you. They ignore you, just like we ignore their casual corruption. A factory of 100 laid off for “the benefit of the rest of us” – ah, self-sacrifice for the future! (Did the new President self-sacrifice his six figure bonus for cutting costs? Ah, sacrificial lambs!) Why do so many longtime employees choose to leave? Discontent. Tired. Not with the program. They’re not with The Program. They must have done something. A great “package!” Stupid honest eyes seeing that these loyalistas were humiliated, isolated, forced out to retain some thread of their shredded dignity.

Oh, Human Resources, much like Major Oil, you do burn through your resources with speed! Burn, burn, baby. Burn, burn, ba-by! You are so by-the-book that you make the Auschwitz Guardhouse Training Manual look like an improvisation: “Can we help you – leave?” “There is no problem – Our investigation, our secret unseen foregone conclusioned investigation proves so – The problem is you for making up a problem. What is your problem?!” “Mein Fuhrer, we can no longer recruit victims, er, employees for your Lunch with the President lunches – they are obviously not interested in the health of the company” – and foolishly noted that anyone who was too concerned is no longer . . . here.

Damn honest eyes – stop seeing that!