Hello Ham, <snip> H > Blanket labeling again! "High ideals" are to be found in ALL sectors of the > business community, whether they make a profit for their investors or > operate as non-profit organizations. I can't speak for charities, but my > business experience includes several industrial advertising agencies, a PR > firm, two electronic equipment manufacturers, and a major chemical > corporation. While the profit motive was evident in all these associations, > so were business ethics and the rule of advancement on merit. By the way, > none of these firms was unionized. (I say this because I suspect that those > ensconced in the ivory towers of academia view the "captains of industry" as > ruthless money-seekers who have no regard for their employees.) > > I also worked for a nonprofit (non-charity) national research organization > for 12 years, and it was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my career. > ECRI was headed by a physician, who also served on the board of Consumers > Union, and it provides liaison between hospital purchasing departments and > the medical equipment industry. For a yearly fee, purchasing agents obtain > assistance on order placement and pricing information on pharmaceuticals, > radiation and surgical/therapy devices, and patient equipment such as > orthopedic beds, stretchers, wheel chairs. This saves them bundles of > money, prevents purchasing errors, and alerts them to new FDA regulations. > ECRI's technical reports are held in high esteem, and the medical suppliers > are most cooperative in seeing that we got reliable data. The firm owns its > own building in the suburbs, operates openly and democratically, and rolls > all income over into projects involving new product evaluations. It was an > ideal first job for anyone just graduating from college or for individuals > (like me) with some medical knowledge, an ability to write, and experience > working with sales reps.
m As you rightly point out in your first sentence, blanket labeling, also thinking in generalities, gets us to miss as much as we see, maybe more. A well run organization of any type can be a very High-Quality experience. >H > Mel, if you're looking for organizations that squander money and ignore > efficiency, check out the government bureaucracies. When bureaucrats are > allowed to operate on an unending supply of taxpayer money, they have no > incentive to economize or maintain high ethical standards. Since almost > half of America's citizens are govenment workers, you can probably get a > comparative report from your next door neighbor. When Obama becomes > president, we'll all be working for the government. m I was raised in a four child household. Two work for government, one Fed, one Local. Each tells stories of remarkable people and each has hair-curling tales of people, practises, policies that are so wrong or wasteful, or damaging, that they can keep a dinner party outrged for most of an evening. Each regards their own position as "part of the solution and not the problem," as it were, and I believe they are correct. Entertaining though it may be, that is tax-dollar exanguination. Whoever, O or McC, who places palm upon bible and taked the oath had best be wearing a tyvek suit for the shitstorm that will be unleashed. Campaign rhetoric aside, each will likely act more like each other than shining examples of their own party...event and problem driven, of course. Both parties fumbled us into the state in which we are. To expect them to get us out might be a little like the "definition fo insanity." doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. resigned to falling at 32 fps(squared) thanks--mel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
