SHRINKAGE

"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it." WILL ROGERS


aloha,
SHRINKAGE is BIZSPEAK for loss by theft, usually by damages, shoplifting or employees.

surveys have shown that UNHAPPY EMPLOYEES STEAL, mostly to get the wage they feel they deserve.how can i put this delicately? i can testify to the veracity of these surveys....in my 30 years as a member of the workforce EVERY SINGLE JOB I EVER HAD HAD THEFTS. except maybe PG&E HQ but i was only there a month.
when i worked at PACIFIC BELL HQ back in the 70s people were stealing electric typewriters,industrial sweepers and even employee cars from the attached parking lot. the company i worked for brought in people to man every door and stop it, we did. then the next rotating clowns in Company Security came and looked around WHY ARE WE PAYING ALL THIS MONEY FOR SECURITY? NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE. sigh...so it goes, by then i was out the door ready to drive a cab (circa 1975).

i have had some TERRIBLE BOSSES (see COPPER PENNY blog) the coked up, the paranoid, the usual incompetents,the drunks, the senile, the dictators, the sexists (including some females) and the penny pinching.i have been duped or hungry when i took some jobs and often bailed as soon as i could....under THE RIGHT CONDITIONS I CAN BE AN EXCELLENT WORKER.(i.e. leave me alone and let my do my damn job)

from an article i found and told MY BOYZ about,
when you get a new job it has three facets;
1. the job you were hired to do (usually by someone who does NOT Know the job)
2. the job requirements as they really are
3. the job YOU WANT TO DO.

yeah, each reasons i hated being a temp.
i was going to write more about this but my train of thot got derailed by a phone call from the hospital where i was last monday about my insurance for my procedure NEXT MONDAY huge huge sigh.God(s) help us...

BTW YEA DETROIT
Detroit, the wounded and long suffering city, is proposing to follow an idea many city planner suggest whose time has come.CONTRACTING THE CITY LIMITS, CONCENTRATING THE POPULACE TO BETTER UTILIZE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND CONVERT BLIGHTED NABES INTO PARKS AND URBAN FARMS.we in KALIpornia have hectars of ugly ugly suburbs atop some of the finest more fertile farmland on this aging planet...

speaking of common sense, my friend O WISE HOWARD has sent me pictures of steel container housing units in Shanghai (i think) which have been converted into...affordable "surplus workers housing" .so i am not a lone voice of sanity crying out to the igorant wilderness.

ON TV,
waiting for WEEDS to return meanwhile NURSE JACKIE IS BACK and a new show on FX shows promise JUSTIFIED based on ELMORE LEONARD Short stories, if you're a fan.
saw ROBERT REICH on LINK TV as i prophesied, of the 8 MILLION LOST AMERICAN JOBS some jobs may start trickling back within 3-4 years BUT SOME JOBS ARE GONE GONE GONE (unless u speak Chinese and are willing to emigrate).

namaste y'all
semper grumpy
mega