MBA = Management Bullshit Always !!!

Hey Folks,

I’m sure you’ve heard how Dubya has been conning the
Congress by signing their bills into law and then
saying he’s going to interpret them however he wants
regardless of the language in the law.

This is pretty shocking. Quite a few people are
aghast, but the Uke Man has seen it all before. My
friend Sondra Hurwood can back me up on that; it’s
just typical management bullshit.

She and I spent fifteen-plus years fighting the union
- management wars, and - believe me - it’s just
“standard practice.” I wouldn’t be surprised if they
teach it in the business schools.

Everything in the business-media stories reports that
the economy is just hunky-dory, regardless of all the
working stiffs getting screwed, because the only thing
that matters is how the swells are doing. Similarly,
in the world of contracts, laws, ethics, and morality
all that matters is how the swells are doing.

We live under a double standard. Here’s how it works.

A union signs a contract with management; a President
signs a law created by the Congress; what does that
mean? For the union it means that the workers MUST
follow the language of the contract. For citizens it
means they must follow the language of the law. For
management it means they can do whatever the hell they
want. For the president it means he can do whatever
the hell he wants.

Why?

The enforcement of a contract or a law upon a worker
or a citizen is immediate. Little people feel the effect
immediately. Should they even appear to have misstepped,
there is a vigilant “system” waiting to engulf them and place
them at risk.

They immediately enter the system and work
their way through it over a long period of time. If they
are found guilty of any transgression, they often begin
to experience their “punishment” very early on. If after
months or years their innocence is finally determined,
the best they'll get for the intervening suffering and
expense is: “Sorry.”

On the other hand if the President or management
decides that black is white or white is black and acts
in a way contrary to the law or a contract, nothing
happens.

Before something can happen, someone has to
claim to be injured and then present a charge of
injury. In the case of a contractual injury, charges
are taken to a governmental board for redress. This
process can drag out for months or years.

Disregarding the common reality that these boards more
often than not favor management and rule against the
union, if the union, after months or years, IS
vindicated in the dispute, all that management is
required to do is to cease and desist its odious
practice.

In other words if a worker disregards a contract he’s
screwed; if management disregards a contract they can
screw the worker for as long as they can drag out the
process; and should they be found to be miscreant at
the end of the long process, they need only stop the behavior
in question and replace it with some new, and
equally odious behavior - while suffering no punishment
whatsoever.

In the case of the President, he can pretend that in
good faith he is signing a bill into law while
having not the slightest intention of obeying it. He
can screw anybody in any way he wants, and - short of
impeachment - no one can stop him short of the
process described above.

First, someone must claim to have been injured by his
“interpretation” of the law. Then they must take him
to court. Then the “process” must make its way to the
Supreme Court. Then the Supreme Court, which the
President is working so hard to pack with toadies,
must rule against him. This process will drag on for
months or years. If it should ever finally arrive,
the President will be expected simply to stop.

Any suffering he has caused by his willful stubborn
disregard of the clear intent and language of the law
is just “tough shit.”

Hey Folks, that’s just the way it is here in the land
and the home of the free and the brave; that’s the
freedom our brave men and women have died to preserve;
and the sooner we wake up to that fact, the sooner
brave men and women can die to preserve something more
honorable.

-Uke Man