Jim Breen wrote:
> CL wrote:
>> Jim Breen wrote:
>>> CL wrote:
>>>> But, don't mind me.  Media attorneys and trademark lawyers are on my
>>>> list of People Who Will Die When the Revolution Comes, just after
>>>> Business School Grads and before Marketing Executives.
>>> Since I'm a "Business School Grad" I'd better lie low.
>> Gerroff ... Information Technology is computers an' stuff like that,
>> innit?  
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> That's not Business.  Business is stuff like how to commit rape,
>> pillage, and total destruction whilst wearing a three piece suit,
>> carrying a briefcase, and never once lowering your zip.
> 
> The mind boggles. Especially at the thought of committing rape
> without lowering one's zip....

Think "leveraged buyout" ... no, don't.  You might get indigestion.

> ICT is business, which is why as a young middle-level exec in a
> telco in the late 70s, I decided I'd better learn something about
> business, management, finance, marketing, etc. so I went and did
> an MBA. The class was full of engineers, scientists, lawyers, etc.
> eager to become merchant bankers. Some did, some went back to their
> lasts, and one or two ended up in jail. Moi, well one thing the MBA
> did for me was to convince me that I didn't want a career in
> business, so I went into consulting, and a few years later into
> academia. I didn't become a multi-millionaire, but I can sleep
> nights, and indulge myself in the things I like doing.

Ohhh ... MBA.  I have one of those.  I mostly use mine for forensic
accounting and investigating non-compliance, cartel, intellectual
property, and white collar crime issues.  You never get to shoot anyone
and you rarely get to stage a big raid, much less knock in a barred door
with a big log and run around grabbing papers and other illegal looking
things before the Godless Evildoers (tm) shred them, burn them, eat
them, or flush them down the toilet.  It's mostly taking people into
soundproof rooms, showing them the evidence you've collected and then
sitting by quietly while their superior almost tearfully asks them to
sign this paper, resign without a fuss, and give it all back, please;
there's a good lad.  Corporate officers almost never authorize the use
of rubber truncheons, either.  The pussies.

-- 
CL