"CLAW" - читать интересную книгу автора (Barry Dave)

you have a chief executive who spends his entire day posing for Annual Report
photographs and testifying before Congress; and beneath him you have several
thousand executives engaged in "middle management," which is the corporate
term for "management activities in which there is no possible way for anybody
to tell whether you're screwing up"; and beneath them you have tens of
thousands of secretarial, clerical, and reception personnel; and beneath them
somewhere in a factory nobody ever goes to because there is no decent place
around it where you can have lunch, you have the actual production work force,
which consists of a grizzled old veteran employee named "Bud."

This modern corporate system offers something for everybody:

THE EXECUTIVES get enormous salaries and bonuses and stock options and offices
big enough to play jai alai in.
THE SECRETARIAL, CLERICAL, AND RECEPTION PERSONNEL get medical plans, dental
plans, pension plans, savings plans, go-to-college plans, stop-smoking
plans, lose-weight plans, softball plans, and bulletin boards it takes
upwards of two working days to read.
THE STOCKHOLDERS get regular annual reports printed on top-quality paper
informing them that despite less-than-projected earnings caused by
impossible-to-foresee foreign-currency fluctuations exacerbated by a
short-term restructuring of the long-term capitalized debenturization of
the infrastructure and the discovery that certain moths may mate for
life, the future continues to look very bright inasmuch as the
corporation quite frankly has the best darned management team the human
mind can conceive of.
BUD gets regular five-minute breaks.

AND SO ...

... and so we have come to the present day, to the incredibly
sophisticated world of the modern corporation--a world that YOU, thanks to
this book, are about to become part of! In the next chapter, we'll talk about
how you can land that all-important entry-level job, so you'll want to study
it very carefully! Unless your dad owns the company, in which case you can
head on out to the golf course.


Chapter Two
GETTING A JOB


In this chapter, we'll take you step-by-step through the job-hunting
process, starting right at the beginning.

BIRTH

This is the time to start preparing for your business career. You can
bet your little navel protuberance that the other babies are preparing, and
you don't want to fall so far behind that they wind up as vice-presidents and