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The sun has not risen yet and the dogs are out the door to wake the neighbors and relieve themselves. I know as the clear outside air wakes me with its chill that the keyboard awaits.
Some long hours of the day will be spent on redundant forms, and requests for information that is stored in the not so secure vault of the computer--computers--. Who has one computer?
Insurance companies ask the same question three different ways to see if you can get the same lie on two different pages to match.
You have your forth primary physician and he has you fill out the same forms that you have filled out in the same medical facility a dozen times before
Data is collected on drives that can be manipulate in many ways but the next report you are asked for wants the same information in a form that the computer for some unknown reason cannot create. You must go through your personal account of events and submit the data that is already stored in many files.
Gentlemen and Women can we not do a better job at running things.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Next Presidents Pledge
1. I will always keep track of where the money is coming from.
2. I will always know where all the money is going
3. I am not better than my people.
4. I am not worth 1000 times more in pay than the lowest paid worker.
5 My people are the best people, but they are human.
6. I will always use the same bathroom as the rest of the staff.
7. I know how to drive myself and will do so.
8. I'll drive my car if you will drive yours, the company does not own cars unless we are
selling cars.
9. I will always know who is coming and going so my office is
going to remain on the ground floor.
10. I will always keep the blinds open when in my office, there will be no rumors.
11. When I am at a business meal one of my people will be there, and everyone gets a turn to go.
12. If one of my people has a money making idea for the company, the idea is their's and they
will get the credit and a fair share of the profit.
13. I will find many reasons to praise people.
14. Criticism will be in the form of building people up not tearing them down.
15. I will spend at least one day a week out of the office so my people can get their work done.
16. I will never belong to a country club if my lowest paid worker cannot afford it.
17. Dogs are allowed at work, (Sorry I am allergic to cats.) every one picks up after
their own dog.
18. If my dog messes up I'll clean it up, and you will do the same for yours.
19. The best parking spaces go to the people who get up early and get them.
20. The phones will always be answered by people.
21. Everyone gets health insurance if we can still stay in business.
22. If something makes sense I can add it to my pledge.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
A FEW QUESTION?
Good Morning:
My wife thought the title for my blog was too restrictive. She started one over a year ago and has posted ever day with few exceptions.
I have no Idea if she is right or not.
Onward: Watching ads on TV there is one group of adds run by our local legal beagles that leaves me with some questions.
The usally start out "Social Security Benefits are hard to get......." "As a former Social Security Judge I have decided over 5,000 cases..........."
Social Security Disability is a great business for lawyers, why? You are permanently injured and cannot work. Head down to your Social Security Office and most likely you will be denied. In my town you will then be contacted by all three law firms that advertize that their only business is helping you with your disability claim. How did they get your name? Do you think they have a contact at the Social Security office who feeds out names numbers and addresses of the disabled?
On TV one of the firms shows a picture of forty or more employees that they have.
This system is set up to help people at their greatest time of need. Why can't Social Security decide cases fairley with out a cadre of lawyers being involved?
We have a similar racket in our state involving traffic tickets. You are facing a fine and points on your license. One of our legal groups has a number of offices through out the state doing nothing but fixing tickets. They have billboards along the major roads in the state. You can have five DUI's and still be on the road if you are willing to pay the lawyer. Are the judges and prosecuters, and lawyers all complicit in this scheme that keeps unsafe drivers on the road and our insurance premiums high?
We are the only developed country in the world that does not have universal health care. The burden of the insurance companies selling policies is enough to add a big layer of cost. Each company with there own forms and cost structure. Each hospital and doctor with a different set of forms, and often you can get your health records moved from providor to provider buy why can't we carry a card with a chip on it that has all of our records.
What does this have to do with the Next President blog. Just a couple of examples where we let a system control us and bleed us. There are plenty of companies that have systems in place that have been there for years only because."We have always done it that way and >>>>"
Friday, January 30, 2009
Gross National Product Shrinks
I am reminiscing about my high school graduation year it keeps coming up in current economic statistics.
"he GNP has not been this low since 1963." It was a good year for me. Graduating from High School with full scholarships to three universities. In July of that year I was packing my gear to try a school which pioneered the trimester program. Three four month sessions running all year round. Was quite a challenge. I don't remember the economy being a problem. I only had to worry about room and board. Seven hundred for two semesters. My summer job let me salt away over three thousand. I was rich.
The war in Vietnam was killing my friends but I had a number that would never be called. Young and foolish I went to enlist some where around valentines day if my memory is any good. Never thought a fungus could be so valuable. Last step of the physical the doctor congratulated me with a 1y classification. Why I asked? They had not picked up my asthmatic wheeze which was pretty loud. "Your feet will rot to your knees where all of these recruits are going. You have a fungus on the soles of your feet." That was the last I heard of the Army.
The space program was in full swing. On Long Island, Grumman Aircraft was the prime contractor for the original LEM project. Subcontracting companies all over the Island were getting work. You could quit a job on one morning an be working two others by the afternoon.
So here we are 5,000,000 unemployed and counting. All the Ex Presidents men and the Ex President defiant in their posture on the war crimes they have committed. And our great agent of Change is dragging his feet on starting the prosecutions.
Our corporate heads have gotten drunk on the recent release of $350,000,000 and cannot wait to get their hands on the next chunk of our borrowed chance at reviving the economy.
Please put your name in as a possible Next President of a Corporation. With a bit of common sense you could not do worse. Most of us would not think of remodeling our office to the tune of $1,300,000. Lets hear from some who could do better I know you are out there.
"he GNP has not been this low since 1963." It was a good year for me. Graduating from High School with full scholarships to three universities. In July of that year I was packing my gear to try a school which pioneered the trimester program. Three four month sessions running all year round. Was quite a challenge. I don't remember the economy being a problem. I only had to worry about room and board. Seven hundred for two semesters. My summer job let me salt away over three thousand. I was rich.
The war in Vietnam was killing my friends but I had a number that would never be called. Young and foolish I went to enlist some where around valentines day if my memory is any good. Never thought a fungus could be so valuable. Last step of the physical the doctor congratulated me with a 1y classification. Why I asked? They had not picked up my asthmatic wheeze which was pretty loud. "Your feet will rot to your knees where all of these recruits are going. You have a fungus on the soles of your feet." That was the last I heard of the Army.
The space program was in full swing. On Long Island, Grumman Aircraft was the prime contractor for the original LEM project. Subcontracting companies all over the Island were getting work. You could quit a job on one morning an be working two others by the afternoon.
So here we are 5,000,000 unemployed and counting. All the Ex Presidents men and the Ex President defiant in their posture on the war crimes they have committed. And our great agent of Change is dragging his feet on starting the prosecutions.
Our corporate heads have gotten drunk on the recent release of $350,000,000 and cannot wait to get their hands on the next chunk of our borrowed chance at reviving the economy.
Please put your name in as a possible Next President of a Corporation. With a bit of common sense you could not do worse. Most of us would not think of remodeling our office to the tune of $1,300,000. Lets hear from some who could do better I know you are out there.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Who Should We Have as Presidents? You? Me?
Five million and counting-Americans out of work. Some of those workers have been scratching their heads for years over the decisions made by the Presidents of their companies.
I think there is a reason for change. A person earns 3,000 times the amount of the average worker in a company. He has lost billions of dollars. Leaves the company with a multi-million dollar bail out, and marches on to destroy another company. It seems to be very similar to an old zombie flick, these characters never die. The just show up in a new disguise in another company.
I am trying to make contact with people of common sense who feel they could do it for less and do it better. Every corporation has a board of directors, they should be elected by stockholders when in effect they are usually selected by upper management and are recommend to the stock holders. As a stock holder I have never been asked to send in a name of a possible director prior to the little ballot that shows up with an annual report asking me for a yes or no on the directors most of them already in place.
Why don't the directors revolt. Why pay 5,000,000 to 100,000,000 for a corporate president.
How many of you out there would take the job for $500,000 and a company car and a severance package of less than a million but not less then $250,000. Well it sound OK to me. Having reached the position of president you would be immune from long term unemployment. There is always a market for ex-presidents. If you don't get a new position as president of a company in a short time you could easily hire a ghost writer and tell your tale.
So if you have an interest in becoming president of a company with great perks but not be paid over $3,000,000 dollars a year. You should be willing to sign a contract that is short term three years or less, renewable at the discretion of the stockholders and board. With a good but not excessive parachute. To qualify you must have no experience in the companies operations other than what anyone might pick up a reader of the news, or a customer of the companies products or services.
Having people of no proven abilities come into these positions will bring a fresh look at how the company operates. It will give their workers real hope that they can have a life that is considered important because the board has chosen to axe the idea that someone is worth so much more than they are as people.
You are invited to join the Next Presidents. Spread the word, especially among the 5,000,000 or so who have applied for unemployment benefits, because of their ex-president's miss calculations.
I think there is a reason for change. A person earns 3,000 times the amount of the average worker in a company. He has lost billions of dollars. Leaves the company with a multi-million dollar bail out, and marches on to destroy another company. It seems to be very similar to an old zombie flick, these characters never die. The just show up in a new disguise in another company.
I am trying to make contact with people of common sense who feel they could do it for less and do it better. Every corporation has a board of directors, they should be elected by stockholders when in effect they are usually selected by upper management and are recommend to the stock holders. As a stock holder I have never been asked to send in a name of a possible director prior to the little ballot that shows up with an annual report asking me for a yes or no on the directors most of them already in place.
Why don't the directors revolt. Why pay 5,000,000 to 100,000,000 for a corporate president.
How many of you out there would take the job for $500,000 and a company car and a severance package of less than a million but not less then $250,000. Well it sound OK to me. Having reached the position of president you would be immune from long term unemployment. There is always a market for ex-presidents. If you don't get a new position as president of a company in a short time you could easily hire a ghost writer and tell your tale.
So if you have an interest in becoming president of a company with great perks but not be paid over $3,000,000 dollars a year. You should be willing to sign a contract that is short term three years or less, renewable at the discretion of the stockholders and board. With a good but not excessive parachute. To qualify you must have no experience in the companies operations other than what anyone might pick up a reader of the news, or a customer of the companies products or services.
Having people of no proven abilities come into these positions will bring a fresh look at how the company operates. It will give their workers real hope that they can have a life that is considered important because the board has chosen to axe the idea that someone is worth so much more than they are as people.
You are invited to join the Next Presidents. Spread the word, especially among the 5,000,000 or so who have applied for unemployment benefits, because of their ex-president's miss calculations.
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