Reply #4: A hungry boss is a good boss. [View All]

[Gregorian]

What we need are intelligent, organized, aware, competitive, caring "bosses".

I fear that what I'm thinking may be construed as trickle down republican retreads. But, I don;t care how much we throw at the companies, if they don't produce results (a phrase one of my Chinese design professors smacked me down with once upon a time), then the workers will suffer. As in, what we're going through right now.

What we need are companies that are run by bright, FLEXIBLE, intelligent engineers. This is about engineering. Business follows engineering. I am sorry to say that, because business is important. But I don't care how many cpa's, mba's are involved, if it's a crap product.

We're way behind the other world markets. The only way we're going to catch up is by doing it. It's not about money. It's about brains. The fatter the boss is, the less likely they are to put their nose to the grinding wheel.

Is this incorrect? I don't like spouting untruths. But as an engineer, it's the product.

When my old dad was working at Applied Materials (they make the machines that make the integrated circuit chips) back in the 70's, a group of high level Chinese engineers came to them to have special chips produced for electric car controls. The seventies!

Now I'll admit that the electric car is nothing without batteries. So there is blame to go around.

This is the time when we get smart, and when we start treating employees like the crucial asset to the company that they are.