Re: Gibson raided
Thanks for thought and link. I get pretty worked up about this stuff.
And yes, I do agree that "jobs" are falling casuality to mechanization... but, but, but (geeze... where to start and where to stop on this subject?).
I'll start here: Better tools should result in higher quality... not lowered expectations all the way around. Work should be be in-part it's own reward. Why not go the extra mile and do the job as right as reasonably possible?
My employees generally verbalize some when they start-out working for me that they think I oftentimes go to "a lot of work"... "there's quicker & easier ways to do things". I'll reply: "Could be, and if you know of a quicker or easier way to deliver as good or better results, we'll do it your way." Sometimes the answer is: "Well... no, it's not gonna turn-out quite as good, but who cares?" I'll reply: "I care... my standard is my standard, so we're going to do things up to my standard, and although the boss might not always be right, the boss is always the boss." Sometimes they do have a better method (quicker and/or easier) to generate as good or better results... oftentimes using new & improved technology... so we do it the improved way.
Another one of my sayings involving standards: "How many times will we get to do this?" Response by employees, bandmates, co-workers doing shows, etc...: "Do what?" My reply: "Life... you-know... the chance to do what we've been given a chance to do... heck, why not do a great job? What else would we be doing today if we weren't doing *this*? Might as well do this over-the-top if we can, right?"
Humans have all the right stuff to produce phenominal results... why not push the envelope? Why not strive to do a great job, even though a mediocre job might be adequate for the here and now? Sure, there might be machines that do a pretty good job at some stuff... but here's lots of opportunity out there to produce results that a machine cannot do. Whats with the goal to get out of work?... and do what? Lay on the couch and be passively entertained and stuff yourself with junk food? Maybe I'm missing something: What's wrong with doing something that others might call work? We only have one shot at this... might as well make it count.
Oh yea, and that "money stuff". As far as I'm concerned, that stuff is simply the ways and means to grease the skids of accomplishment. Money is just another tool in the tool chest.
