by Team Grype | Apr 4, 2013 | Grypes |
We idolize sincerity in others because we suffer from a cultural phobia that others won’t think we’re good enough. The self-help industry plays into that fear as new self-improvement books clog magazine racks at supermarket check-out lines. TV is rife with...
by Team Grype | Apr 2, 2013 | Grypes |
This has been an interesting week: an oil pipeline ruptured in Arkansas, flooding an entire town with dirty crude distilled from Canadian tar sands (yum!). There seems to be a news blackout in the area. Coincidence? Plus a gang of Atlanta teachers got busted...
by Team Grype | Mar 28, 2013 | Grypes |
The Parasitic Taskmasters One side-effect of the overabundance of middle management in America is a sub-class of employee we’ll call “parasitic taskmasters.” These individuals somehow manage to rise in the managerial ranks to a supervisory capacity,...
by Team Grype | Mar 26, 2013 | Grypes |
Some Musings on the Plight of Middle Management: As the American economy adapted to the sudden industrial heydey of the post-war 1940’s and 1950’s, education rose to the forefront as the great guarantor of job success. A post-war college degree was widely...
by Team Grype | Mar 19, 2013 | Grypes |
What’s the worst abuse of Patent Law? Monsanto’s attempt to patent seeds and classify their offspring as “illegal copies”? Nope. Most people are familiar with “ambulance chasers”— legal firms that recruit injured parties to take...
