Pithy thoughts from Richard Kadrey, posted to the WELL (reposted here with permission):
Topic 1481 [genx]: Work-Related Oddities
#167 of 177: Call Out Research Hook #1 (kadrey) Fri Jul 13 ’01 (17:24) 8 linesalmost no one knows what they hell they’re talking about, in my experience. and most companies are one bad meeting away from imploding, no matter how tranquil and together they appear on the surface. economic moments like the current one are the convergence of all those points of free-floating incompetancy swirling into the accretion disc of a big black hole of Suck. this is the terror of adult life. this is why strangers will sometimes lock eyes for a shared moment of ass-puckering fear.