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[Jul 11, 2011, 09:34 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Happy 7/11! As always, those with access to a participating 7-Eleven location can help them celebrate the occasion by picking up a free Slurpee. The forecast calls for it to hit 93 °F today in these parts, so I have a feeling a lot of locals will be availing themselves of this offer.

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41. Re: Out of the Blue Jul 12, 2011, 10:18 Beamer
 
I'll agree with that, but what I'll say instead is that the corporate greed and stupidity you speak of manifests itself in the form of the proliferation of MBA's in corporate America to the detriment of people who do actual work.

My current company has a huge problem with hiring tons of management over people that do actual work. However, extremely few of those are MBAs (which I say is a fault, as there's far less efficiency.)


Incidentally, my boss is not an MBA but may as well be with 4 MIT degrees and 8 years at McKinsey. He's instituting MBA ideas, like 3 year planning, to a company that always flew by the seat of its pants. It's insanely hard work, but insanely useful. And insane that this company never once did this stuff. Fuck, marketing never spoke to manufacturing to give volume estimates so manufacturing was constantly in danger of exceeding capacity with no idea of how much to build out or what exactly it needed to build. Manufacturing was constantly inefficient and fumbling, marketing was constantly experiencing shortfalls of some product and overstocks of others.
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