Service-oriented economies comprise service-oriented people, else servile. Alas, the course of job interviews betrays a resolve to stymie individualists. Hiring managers keep a sharp lookout for the inauspicious aspect of originality.
Directors represent tamers and employees’ captive animals, paying tribute to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Operating in a climate of servility, imposed by those who own the pavilions, neutered proprietors surround themselves with like employees and so diffuse their shame. Shame indeed, as reshuffling by-products, falls short of seventh heaven. And so, we pretend.
Service-oriented concerns have infinite growth potential, where manufacturing is finite; tethered to earthly resources. Yet shadowy imaginations trained on indulgence fly free, otherwise untethered. Witness the rise of mediocrity and the flag of excellence.
This alteration of economic circumstances complements indifference. The landscape reverberates with secondary types who employ secondary measures to cope with ensuing challenges. Observe the myriad schemes hiring managers conjure to facilitate decision making. They are prisoners of fear, supposing each applicant is a charlatan—which they are. So, managers affect a pharisaical air, optimizing shame. Yet both factions appear implicated in on-the-job twaining (becoming one with system software by leveraging satellite telephones).
Sterile leaders and followers goading each other, a spectacle symbolic of cats chasing their tails. Alas, self-deception triumphs.
Usonia is old, stricken in years. Relieved of continence, the anxious U.S. hunkers down in the well-frequented valley of hollowness.
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