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Pastimes : Gutter poetry and harsh chaffing sounds
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To: Hubert Few who wrote ()2/19/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: Hubert Few  Read Replies (2) of 223
 
Inside the belly of a great corporate beast.

I can liken the political posturing in the "great" company I work for as follows.

I am trapped inside the belly of a huge carnivorous slug. The beast is constantly excreting digestive fluids, I try to develop newer and better biological defenses to the constant attack on my skin. I know that I have lost several layers, but then I have been in here for over 10 years, that would be expected!

Day by day I greet other flotsam in the belly of the slug. I hear news from the outside that is funneled down to me in distant groans and echoes, occaisonally a "spicy" morsel will bob up to the surface spouting optimistic "corporate-speak", I treat all of these with the equal delight of a child opening a present on christmas morning. I know in the end though the mindless momentum of "well intentioned" corporate saviors and savants will prevail. The anthem of "value added" resource planning dictates that eventually all productive nutrients will be absorbed and the remaining dried corpse will be expelled, to dry on the sun bathed steps of someone's vision of what a company should do and be.

I hope there is beer when I get there. I hope the gold watch around my neck does not so constrict my swallowing that I can still enjoy a frothy brew and let out a hearty belch of my own....there is no beer where I am now, it is forbidden to touch the lips of the corporate slug, for reasons that are widely known.
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