beats me wrote: a well respected corporation
generally speaking what makes them "well respected" is... cutting costs and increasing profits... which equals better Wall St. numbers. then they brag about it in (expensive) commercials or (much to their preference) someone else boasts for them in magazines and the business news sections of print, the web and tickers on the bottom of TV screens.
the thing is, the "cutting costs" part is the bottom line. nothing more. there is no face. there is no love. there is no compassion. paper clip, shipping costs, company jet, human beings, software... it's all on an itemized report that gets transferred to a spreadsheet.
remember that word 'corporation' when you're out there looking for a new job. it's almost synonymous with decent benefits packages and... layoffs.
on the other hand when the head of the company knows your name or at the very least knows your face... when you work in a place where when the H.R. Manager is being a douche you can go all the way to the top without ever leaving the building... or at least without leaving the county.. then you know you're either not working in a corporation or you're fucking working at the corporate office. you have to use them like they use you. when you forget and get all comfy... a reminder will follow. be weary of the corporation... lest you find history repeating itself.
let me guess... your apartment building is owned by a group that owns lots of apartment buildings in the area. you, or one of your neighbors that have been there a long time, remember the previous owner before he died or was forced to sell for some reason... but now it's under a group who have an off site office that oversees the onsite management... and lots of buildings all over.
you're double whammied in the American dream turned violent shake.
my PC is about 20 feet from my CEO's office, my landlord is a sweet 93 year old lady who forces candy on my child and tells us both about how things have changed when we go to her house to hand her the rent check. i planned it this way... i got laid off twice, the last time thanks to Worldcomm, MCI, and finally Verizon... the first time it was MSN Internet Access (dial up help desk

)... both times jobs were moved or eliminated. i went to work, i got good quality scores, i trained people, i was friendly, on time, dedicated... it didn't matter... it doesn't matter when your boss gets laid off too... or... your boss is thanking his/her "lucky" stars that he/she isn't getting laid off too.
you can't reason with math. you can reason with people. if you can see the math, but not the people then you're rolling the layoff dice every day.
you obviously had become fairly comfy, content and distracted. you might have seen this coming, but you were distracted, awestruck even, by the way your playlist syncs between 3 devices, the Netflix interface, and sheer volume of apps that need organizing, never mind the GUI. the storm was forming but you were looking down or straight ahead and not to the sky. you should blame Steve for this.
i do.
damn you Steve, damn you.