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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (64379)	7/11/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB - (...Employees play online games or download porno or answer E-mail instead of working....) These are the necessary time-fillers that prevent the employees from getting whip-sawed by short term fluctuations in management direction. An employee should only respond to true breakouts when it is clear that a given project will survive until the next quarterly meeting and has some possibility of actually affecting their performance review. -g- (...You cannot check out at the store because the system is down...) You can't check out at Borders and CompUSA because the free-roaming employees can always look busy while avoiding the registers. Regards, Don

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (64379)	7/11/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

"Nobody buys our exports because we are not competitive." ROFL again! Last time I checked US companies are world leaders in most technology exports (with a few notable exceptions like Nokia). Can you name a single significant non-US competitor to INTC, MSFT, IBM, CSCO, etc? Also check out their % international business! Maybe you are suffering too many disconnects down there. :-) Our trade deficit has much more to do with our strong economy driving imports than our export competitiveness. Now if the ROW will just apply our technology they too can enjoy the improvements in productivity and prosperity we have! (Of course they have a few other problems like strong labor unions, bloated social welfare programs, etc.) Jingoistic? Probably but so what? Our economy is working better than anywhere else in the world.