January 9, 2003
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If you use Verizon long distance, cancel it. If you have a check in the mail to them, stop payment. If you know a Verizon executive, execute the motherfucker. Why am I a tad miffed at Verizon? Because they are the latest on a very long list of big companies that enrich their top people for no apparent reason, and screw the little guys. To be more specific–Verizon lost a shitload of money recently, it was in the NY Times. They pay their two top execs something like $40 million a year, which would support 60,000 people who live at the level I do. So what does this company do to save money? THey fire 1,500 of their workers. Okay, it’s maybe 2,500. I’m too lazy to look it up, so trust me on this. In summary, to hell with Verizon. A pox on Verizon. Fuck Verizon. And yes, I do feel a little better now.
Comments (6)
Hey, CEOs who can lose massive amounts of money are a scarce commodity. How are you supposed to find someone like that unless you give them a $40 million bonus?
I just want a small percent of that 40 million so I can get my BigEggo’s teeth fixed.
Execute the execs… I love that idea.
That is the company I was working for when I incurred my work-related injury. My Workers Comp trial is next month, and the injury happened 5 years ago. Believe me, the employees in the rank and file are just as pissed as outsiders about this bullshit. The higher up in management you go, the more perks you get and the more time you can spend doing what you want (at least if MY boss was used for an example). The term horizontal-cllimber comes to mind. What a PIECE of work!
You blow off good steam.
On another level you know as well as I do that it is the smallness of the human mind and the level it’s on that creates Verizons and creates such paychecks, with the (our, and throughout the entire human world, everyone’s various) government’s approval, fitting in with the government’s system, no matter what system is devised. It is quite obviously and apparently the fault of the human psyche. It has never been different in the history of the world and without a step up in evolution or at least a leaning that way, the selfishness inherent in humankind — that means me and you — will always promote Verizon after Verizon. We are lucky enough to have the most fortuitive selfishness around as a government, and this is solely owing to that once previous ruling body of ours that created a Constitution, and though the creators had the prejudices of their times they were still head and shoulders above our leaders. Just one of those things! Come back ten thousand years from now, maybe things will be different.
Now, I think you’re a fair guy, so if you say Verizon is for shit, I’ll agree. What to do about it is a problem too big for me, I’ll let you handle it. (Incidentally, I would strongly be for capping wages, but who cares what I think on that but me, and just maybe, you.) Hit ‘em hard, guy; for you and me, both.
I confess, I should have written Hit ‘em hard (big, little, strange, right-on — all these things or more) guy — anything other than just plain “guy”. I cringe now whenever I review that sentence. It’s one of those sentences you wish someone else had written. I just couldn’t think of a proper adjective for you. I think I’ve got one now: Alaska guy.