There was an interesting interview on U.S. National Public Radio this
morning with Steve Coll, the author of a new book on the Exxon-Mobil
corporation. He described the company as being like the old Polaroid
corporation, involving a lot of "promotion from within": if you accept
the company's ethos -- summarized by a series of very-detailed
instruction books (dealing with such important questions as how to use
a stapler) -- and you're willing to move every three years or so,
you're employed until retirement (presumably with a real pension).
More interesting was the employee confession groups, which sounded
like something straight out of the old Maoist ("Marxist-Leninist")
party-lets or religious groups: each employee confesses to all of the
accidents he or she has had on or off the job in front of a group of
fellow employees. Criticism/self-criticism!-- Jim Devine / "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." -- John Buchan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
