Thursday, November 10, 2005
Free Agent Nation
p.49 "At Boeing, IBM, and elsewhere, the notion that corporations were families turned out to be, at best, an outdated promise, at worse, an outright charade. It was almost as if Ma and Pa Corporation--their mortgage payments increasing, their own futures bleak--looked around one day and saw a bunch of nineteen-year-olds flopped on the family couch watching reruns and munching corn chips. "This hurts us a lot more than it hurts you," they said. "Now get out of the house!" To which the kids, chastened into candor, replied, "Fine. I've always thought this place sucked anyway." For the American worker, adolescence was over. Adulthood--and free agency--had begun.
OMG--where does this guy get off. An incredibly insulting picture of the American worker, who is the usually one putting in the overtime so that Ma and Pa executives can get their million dollar bonuses.
Other than that really well researched book--even mentions social network analysis, The Great Good Place, and sociologist Christena Nippert-Eng. Kind of the antithesis of Bait and Switch--definitely a more informed view since at least he devotes several chapters to the downsides of free agent employment, though a little too ready to imply people who get lost along the way are unskilled or otherwise unworthy.
p.49 "At Boeing, IBM, and elsewhere, the notion that corporations were families turned out to be, at best, an outdated promise, at worse, an outright charade. It was almost as if Ma and Pa Corporation--their mortgage payments increasing, their own futures bleak--looked around one day and saw a bunch of nineteen-year-olds flopped on the family couch watching reruns and munching corn chips. "This hurts us a lot more than it hurts you," they said. "Now get out of the house!" To which the kids, chastened into candor, replied, "Fine. I've always thought this place sucked anyway." For the American worker, adolescence was over. Adulthood--and free agency--had begun.
OMG--where does this guy get off. An incredibly insulting picture of the American worker, who is the usually one putting in the overtime so that Ma and Pa executives can get their million dollar bonuses.
Other than that really well researched book--even mentions social network analysis, The Great Good Place, and sociologist Christena Nippert-Eng. Kind of the antithesis of Bait and Switch--definitely a more informed view since at least he devotes several chapters to the downsides of free agent employment, though a little too ready to imply people who get lost along the way are unskilled or otherwise unworthy.
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