Whatever you wish to name the Trump Train, we are seeing a train like no others in our lifetime. Upon listening to talk radio, there are some talk radio hosts and TV cable hosts who are now finding show preparation much more difficult as that Trump is steamrolling the Establishment like no one has ever seen. From what I can tell he is already doing what he said he was going to do all along, a momentum of which continues to amaze me in spite of the fact that he's been in office for not even a fortnight.
The inauguration itself caught my interest. I had not watched a swearing in since 2001, I think I watched one in 1981 and I definitely remember watching the one in 1973. Some media eck-spurts must have watched a different inaugural address than the one that I watched once I heard their take on it. I myself was encouraged and like Sean Hannity I'm thinking, Mr. President, keep your promises.
Already we are seeing Executive Orders being fired out of the cannon, one after another. The first steps in dismantling Obamacare have been taken. We've had one issued to cut down on regulations (which I read today where Canada had to institute a similar process). And the most controversial one so far, a temporary ban on refugees from seven countries while the vetting process is reviewed and fixed.
With all that, and the meltdown from the snowflakes (not to mention female malcontents stating publicly their desire to blow up the White House) has me at the point to where I want to sit down with a bowl of popcorn before I watch the news. Some eck-spurts are maintaining that the Constitution is being violated by these orders, but they don't tell us what part of the Constitution is being violated. Others are predicting an impeachment within the year, and although all of their previous Trump predictions have failed I'm well aware of Trump being sabotaged by members of his own party. The Democrats are not taking this well since they're used to the girly-men Republicans caving in, and they are more frustrated as that Trump isn't going to turn tail on them like they are used to.
And breaking just few hours ago, a leftover Obama appointee was fired for refusing to comply the travel ban, giving the left another hissy fit that's coming before they have had the time to process the hissy fit that they didn't have the chance to finish, There's an entertainment factor here, and this time it's not the kind you get from watching a squirrel short out a transformer on a power pole. I don't know what to compare it to.
There's more to digest here than what I've mentioned, and when time permits I want to look at another subcommunity that I've been thinking about commenting on here but haven't as of yet. I want to put some more thought into that along with the research I intend to do before I post.
However, the way the events are going, that too may be overcome by events.
Stay tuned, as that this is much better than Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Why Do They Want to Hire Foreign Workers?
(The story you are about to read is true, as far as I've been able to determine. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.)
Alfred B. Martensite is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Strumdum Industries, Inc.. He has been in this position for five years or so. Strumdum Industries got their start in a Milwaukee garage in 1977, when an electronics experimenter developed a design for a low powered FM transmitter that went on to fill a niche need for government and military customers. The original founder did not fall into the paradigm that Strumdum was a transmitter company, but instead that Strumdum was a communications company. Although the founder is no longer with them, he hired Mr. Martensite in the early days, and Alfred B. Martensite provided oversight for the development of relays and routers as part of the Internet infrastructure.
Alfred B. Martensite is a rare breed of CEO. He is technically brilliant, a shrewd businessman with a strong sense of ethics, and has an empathy with his employees that far surpasses that of other CEOs. Morale is high, his employees are allowed a work/life balance that enables them to spend time with their families, and benefits are excellent. He runs the company this way since he wants to see Strumdum Industries expand. He wants to grow the business. He thinks long-term; he's more interested in where Strumdum will be in five years rather than where Strumdum will be in the next quarter. He's donated a lot of money to his alma mater. He visits his alma mater to meet with the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering department once or twice a year.
On these visits, Mr. Martensite is accompanied by two other Strumdum executives. Their names are Dr. Norman Fishbinder, who is the Vice President of Research & Development, and Dr. Chin McGarrett, who is the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Engineer. They visit the University of Dallas, which has not only produced Alfred B. Martensite, but also graduates engineers that Strumdum is very much interested in. Strumdum is headquartered in Roosevelt Park, Texas, about forty-five minutes from the University of Big D, as the locals refer to it, and Strumdum believes in hiring local talent.
Their most recent visit, shortly after the election, was quite telling in addition to being productive. The meeting between the executives and the Department Chair went very well, as they usually do. The Department Chair took them on a tour. The tour included the engineering laboratories of the University, which the executives have seen on previous visits, but the executives want to meet the graduate students and press the flesh, because these executives know that their competition will also be interested upon acquiring the talents of these students upon their graduation. Quite a few of the students are from China, India, Malaysia, and Korea. Yes, there are some Americans in there, as well as some Germans. Last I heard, there's also an Egyptian and a New Zealander there too.
After the tour, there's always a discussion in a conference room with the Department Chairman and most of the available professors. Strumdum is quite interested in the curricula that the University of Dallas offers their students, as that Stumdum has some niche specialties and they want to make sure that there are future engineers in the pipeline. Lunch is served in that conference room, which Mr. Martensite has arranged to be catered, because Mr. Martensite is very interested in his business relationship with the Department Chair, and the Department Chair of course, is interested as well, as that Strumdum's been known to frequently award consulting contracts to professors as well as scholarships to those students they deem promising.
The meeting ends, and it's time for the Strumdum executives to return to Roosevelt Park. It's nearing two in the afternoon, and they want to be ahead of the rush hour traffic known to plague the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It's a beautiful day in Texas as they leave the building, to walk to where they are parked.
On their way out, they notice a spectacle. As I've said in one of the preceding paragraphs, this was shortly after the election. The spectacle that draws their attention are a group of students protesting the election of Donald Trump. He's not their President. They don't like him. They want him stopped. They want him stopped, but their demands do not stop there.
Dr. McGarrett notices that the students all appear to be white affluent Americans. Dr. Fishbinder notices that too, and so does Mr. Martensite. They stop to read the signs.
The students want free birth control. Those who are female and those who want to be female want free tampons. They want free tuition. They want to be excused from the final exams as that they're very traumatized about how the election went. They want their safe spaces, and many of them possess coloring books and Playdoh. Some are into the aromatherapy thing. Othes are not. But there's one thing in common with all of them: all of them are angry, and all of them don't want to attend class anymore.
As these executives look at this, they are pondering. What's up with these snowflakes? they ask themselves. They look at this for five, maybe ten minutes, after which they start their return to their offices in Roosevelt Park as that there's work to be done at Strumdum.
On the drive back, they ask themselves. What's happening to our country? What's wrong with their parents? Hey, did you notice that the lab we saw had a much higher proportion of foreign students than we saw last year?
Later on this year, actually next month to be specific, Strumdum will be sending out their recruiters to college campuses around the country. The University of Dallas will of course, be one of those campuses. The snowflakes will be there in their safe spaces, and many of those foreign students will show up at the on-campus interviews wearing suits and discussing in detail their senior projects since they want to work for Strumdum.
Who do you think Strumdum Industries will want to hire?
Alfred B. Martensite is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Strumdum Industries, Inc.. He has been in this position for five years or so. Strumdum Industries got their start in a Milwaukee garage in 1977, when an electronics experimenter developed a design for a low powered FM transmitter that went on to fill a niche need for government and military customers. The original founder did not fall into the paradigm that Strumdum was a transmitter company, but instead that Strumdum was a communications company. Although the founder is no longer with them, he hired Mr. Martensite in the early days, and Alfred B. Martensite provided oversight for the development of relays and routers as part of the Internet infrastructure.
Alfred B. Martensite is a rare breed of CEO. He is technically brilliant, a shrewd businessman with a strong sense of ethics, and has an empathy with his employees that far surpasses that of other CEOs. Morale is high, his employees are allowed a work/life balance that enables them to spend time with their families, and benefits are excellent. He runs the company this way since he wants to see Strumdum Industries expand. He wants to grow the business. He thinks long-term; he's more interested in where Strumdum will be in five years rather than where Strumdum will be in the next quarter. He's donated a lot of money to his alma mater. He visits his alma mater to meet with the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering department once or twice a year.
On these visits, Mr. Martensite is accompanied by two other Strumdum executives. Their names are Dr. Norman Fishbinder, who is the Vice President of Research & Development, and Dr. Chin McGarrett, who is the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Engineer. They visit the University of Dallas, which has not only produced Alfred B. Martensite, but also graduates engineers that Strumdum is very much interested in. Strumdum is headquartered in Roosevelt Park, Texas, about forty-five minutes from the University of Big D, as the locals refer to it, and Strumdum believes in hiring local talent.
Their most recent visit, shortly after the election, was quite telling in addition to being productive. The meeting between the executives and the Department Chair went very well, as they usually do. The Department Chair took them on a tour. The tour included the engineering laboratories of the University, which the executives have seen on previous visits, but the executives want to meet the graduate students and press the flesh, because these executives know that their competition will also be interested upon acquiring the talents of these students upon their graduation. Quite a few of the students are from China, India, Malaysia, and Korea. Yes, there are some Americans in there, as well as some Germans. Last I heard, there's also an Egyptian and a New Zealander there too.
After the tour, there's always a discussion in a conference room with the Department Chairman and most of the available professors. Strumdum is quite interested in the curricula that the University of Dallas offers their students, as that Stumdum has some niche specialties and they want to make sure that there are future engineers in the pipeline. Lunch is served in that conference room, which Mr. Martensite has arranged to be catered, because Mr. Martensite is very interested in his business relationship with the Department Chair, and the Department Chair of course, is interested as well, as that Strumdum's been known to frequently award consulting contracts to professors as well as scholarships to those students they deem promising.
The meeting ends, and it's time for the Strumdum executives to return to Roosevelt Park. It's nearing two in the afternoon, and they want to be ahead of the rush hour traffic known to plague the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It's a beautiful day in Texas as they leave the building, to walk to where they are parked.
On their way out, they notice a spectacle. As I've said in one of the preceding paragraphs, this was shortly after the election. The spectacle that draws their attention are a group of students protesting the election of Donald Trump. He's not their President. They don't like him. They want him stopped. They want him stopped, but their demands do not stop there.
Dr. McGarrett notices that the students all appear to be white affluent Americans. Dr. Fishbinder notices that too, and so does Mr. Martensite. They stop to read the signs.
The students want free birth control. Those who are female and those who want to be female want free tampons. They want free tuition. They want to be excused from the final exams as that they're very traumatized about how the election went. They want their safe spaces, and many of them possess coloring books and Playdoh. Some are into the aromatherapy thing. Othes are not. But there's one thing in common with all of them: all of them are angry, and all of them don't want to attend class anymore.
As these executives look at this, they are pondering. What's up with these snowflakes? they ask themselves. They look at this for five, maybe ten minutes, after which they start their return to their offices in Roosevelt Park as that there's work to be done at Strumdum.
On the drive back, they ask themselves. What's happening to our country? What's wrong with their parents? Hey, did you notice that the lab we saw had a much higher proportion of foreign students than we saw last year?
Later on this year, actually next month to be specific, Strumdum will be sending out their recruiters to college campuses around the country. The University of Dallas will of course, be one of those campuses. The snowflakes will be there in their safe spaces, and many of those foreign students will show up at the on-campus interviews wearing suits and discussing in detail their senior projects since they want to work for Strumdum.
Who do you think Strumdum Industries will want to hire?
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