{"id":176869,"date":"2020-03-02T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/02\/so-many-graves-so-little-urine\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:03:00","slug":"so-many-graves-so-little-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/02\/so-many-graves-so-little-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Graves, So Little Urine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a couple of years working at GE, so it goes without saying that I am not a fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/02\/business\/jack-welch-died.html\">recently dead &#8220;Neutron Jack&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup> Welch<\/a>, who just died at age 84.<\/p>\n<p>I literally refuse to buy their light bulbs to this day. <\/p>\n<p>In 1999, <i>Fortune<\/i> called him the manager of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>His basic business strategy, financialize a manufacturing company for a quick bump in profits, along with making the ordinary people who actually do the work miserable, has not aged well.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">He was called &#8220;Neutron Jack&#8221; because the people were gone, but the buildings remain standing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a couple of years working at GE, so it goes without saying that I am not a fan of the recently dead &#8220;Neutron Jack&#8221;* Welch, who just died at age 84. I literally refuse to buy their light bulbs to this day. In 1999, Fortune called him the manager of the decade. His &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,364,507,403],"class_list":["post-176869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-evil","tag-obituaries","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}