Anthony Balderrama Esq.

Recently the web has been stormed by articles and suggestions by a certain Anthony Balderrama, a "writer" and blogger for CareerBuilder.com (this is his blog: The Work Buzz). According to the description "He researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues." In reality when you read his "suggestions", you see that Mr. Balderrama is a new fascist that believes only in the power of corporate and try to convince you, with not so subtle arguments, that the strongest is always right and if you are on the other side of the power chain, too bad for you. For him employees have to be always like little nice small sheep in the hands of the big, strong and powerful boss. The boss is always right, whatever he/she is doing and the employee, for his daily bread, should change his mind, his soul, his personality only to accommodate the wishes of the strongest. Daily fascism under the mask of nice advices... It is definitively true the proverb: "worse vice, be advice."

(Dr. Divago)

Time of Crisis

Crisis is a short word with long consequences. For ordinary people, those who restrict themselves to implementing the orders of the strongest, it's just a storm that they hope will soon pass. For those who govern with cynical attention for this theater, is the perfect script for a reorganization of the world. They shout the word “crises”, but in reality they are just tightening the screws of the social device. Thanks to the crisis they can force people to work harder for less, they can throw the mask of smile, show their sneer and punch hard, and because of the crisis, people will bear even that. The same day that Bill Gates, one of these great man lit by darkness, has donated 250 million dollars to the Rotary Foundation, has also fired 5000 employees. Ah! The crisis! A few days after Boeing fired 5000 workers also invoking “the crisis”. But nobody says that if it were not for the empty-headed management that decided to invest huge sums in the failing developing of a new mega airplane, perhaps not all those people would have been redundant. Lehman Brother, Chrysler and other bad company orderly follows. Ah! The crisis! The true fact is that we have forgotten how to look at people. Just by looking at the faces of those who govern us how can you believe that this world is heading in a good direction? How do you think that people with a hard muzzle will do something good? They do good things for themselves, but even this is a debatable issue. They are under anesthesia and know nothing about the true, real life. I traveled a lot and I saw many people and many places, but rarely have met managers or people of power who were good people, people capable and genuine. Those “power people” are generally social climbers, small souls, and poor individuals --often ridiculous. But it is in the hands of these people that we put our future. And no tiger is never so dangerous as a small and ridiculous human being.

(© Sergio Caldarella, 2009)