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This post is a great example of this. How does the help a business owner?:

“When I used to live in “cubicle land” many co-workers had some really bad attitudes. Many acted as if management should appreciate the fact that they showed up and graced the office with their presence.

Many of those people have probably gotten a shock to their system over the last few years and if it hasn’t hit them yet, it soon will. And oh yeah, a paycheck is a thing you get for actually doing work and you should appreciate the fact you have a job and can have the kind of life you do.”

It is totally ridiculous drivel that should be reserved for this person's PERSONAL blog, not a respectable company site.

And the little spat in the comments is just a further example of ego-boosting. Totally out of place.

Sorry to rant, Network Solutions, but you really need to reign in whoever is responsible for this blog. It is doing you no favors. I wholeheartedly agree that companies should have a conversation with their customers via a blog, but providing a playground for egos??

I almost never comment on company blogs, but this one has got me going!

Sorry you interpret it like that. I am not an upper management flack and I have been an entrepreneur for over 10 years. I have watched my fair share of people let go for selfish reasons related to upper management wanting to keep their own jobs. They sacrificed people who really kept things running smoothly and after letting them go, it eventually caught up with the organization.

I have also watched first hand, many people with an entitlement problem and very little appreciation for what they have been given in this world. If we all take a moment and look outside ourselves we should all see how lucky we are. We should look at having a job is an exchange of services between an employer and an employee. I believe that the more people will understand that everyone is an independent business person and they may only have one big client, their employer. When people have that perception their overall work habits change and from what I have observed over time they perform better for the most part.

That is all I was trying to say. I hope you can read the other parts of this post as also positive because this is a great time to start a business and the disruption we are experiencing is going to have profound effects for the at least the next decade.

Hear that, rank-and-file? Upper management provides you with a JOB! You should be GRATEFUL! Stop muttering that we get paid four hundred times more than you, because we so graciously allow you to perform the functions that bring in the money!

I had hoped that being an upper-management flack would've been one of those things to go by the wayside after watching systematic depradations for the last TEN YEARS, but I guess the title of “office kissass” still has to go somewhere.

Congrats, Fisher. And don't forget your Chap-stick.