While I have seen examples of companies setting on patents that made me angry, this isn’t one of them. If anything, I”m angry at the Feds for making such a stupid series of roadblocks for something that should be a no brainer.

But then , these idiots can’t manage the economy. What makes anyone think they are fit to manage healthcare or much of anything else is beyond me.

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“how companies can report and record slashing jobs as contributing to profits. Having to throw workers onto the streets to stay in business should be viewed as a failure of management.”

When the dust clears, the record shows that layoffs are expensive and disruptive to a company. Rather than fear enhancing productivity among the remaining, the stress actually suppresses creativity, reduces the flow of ideas, and prevents people from taking chances. I read where IBM got back on track largely by not over hiring followed by massive layoffs as business cycles.

Unfortunately, it seems legitimate business is modulated by emotional investors who know they can make a short-term profit on an irrational concept such as layoffs yielding profits. The same case can be made for M&A. Most mergers produce reverse synergy (and massive layoffs, see Pfizer) and the loss of competitions rarely offsets the disruption of the business and the huge debt load of the deal.

…but in the end, if you know the boss, you might get a hefty bonus when your company gets absorbed, e.g. Bank of Armageddon – Moral Lynched