Month: December 2015

Quote of the Week: Here Is Where We Are Now with Quality Control


Truck-crash

From an actual email exchange that took place this morning (quoted as was written):

 

From a Customer to Operations Department of A_C Company:

Hi John,

Please deliver the second truckload from our current order on Monday 12/21.  Please confirm.

Customer 

 

From the Operations Department to the Customer, copying A_C Company's CEO as per protocol:

Good morning Bob,

Thanks for providing the delivery date!  We will begin to secure trucking.

Best regards,

John

 

From the CEO to the entire Operations Department, copying The Frustrated CFO and Managing Partners:

Please find a trucker who will not spill the product, drive into the customer's gardens, or drive recklessly through their parking lot damaging their employee's car, which all happened to this valuable customer in the recent past.

CEO 

Quote of the Week: Gender Pay Gap


635756935070330185-MAR-GCEITF-Arty07From CNN Breaking News:

"All US military combat positions are being opened up to women, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday.

The decision allows women to fill about 220,000 jobs that are now limited to men – including infantry, armor, reconnaissance and some special operations units.

'This means that as long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before.  They'll be able to drive tanks, give orders, lead infantry soldiers into combat,' Carter said at a news conference Thursday.

'There will be no exceptions,' he added."

The Frustrated CFO Commentary:

Well, congratulations, ladies!  Just as the World Economic Form has concluded that women would not catch up to men in their pay until 2133 (not a typo – 117 years from now, in some hypothetical "future"), the Pentagon has proudly declared that they are making more equal-pay jobs available for us – the ones that they themselves officially list among 8 most dangerous military jobs. 

And this is why I can never align myself with feminist politics.  Don't get me wrong, I greatly admire our contemporary Jeannes d'Arc (or d'Newark) and their desire to challenge themselves in combat.  But I cannot possibly agree that it's good for the country when we put in harm's way the better, worthier half of our citizenry.