Just some things I learned in 1995 and 1996

The company I've worked for twenty-five years now no longer thinks its employees are most important, now it's the stockholders.

People will do anything to get ahead. Clever people will divert attention away from their desperate acts by making other people look bad.

Teenage boys, who live with their mother) do not want to spend time with their father; they have other things to do. I remember, I was one myself, just hope they come back one day.

Working on my things is more important to me than I ever realized. Survival, for me, is to put energy back into my self and I must find the time to do it.

Judy is most wonderful.

December 31st, 1996

Date: 01/02/97

To: My Brother, William A Beatty

From: Howard L. Beatty

Subject: How come you never moved back home?

I was just sitting here, shortly after the first of the year, thinking about the all of our family and each of our differences. It occurs to me that I left for about ten years (Navy, Boston, New Mexico) but came back.

Gail married and went to Ohio for what I think was about ten years, then came back under sad circumstances.

You, ON THE OTHER HAND, never came back and I was just hoping you'd tell me why, in a reply to this humble request.

Your brother who misses you, and yet never calls.

So that's what productivity is?

(or, ah, a corporate performance based culture).

We're standing in front of a group, different in backgrounds, places, ideas, having been assigned the responsibility to inform them of their demise.

The case for their future has been laid out with ever decreasing budgets and more work. Goals, not set by them, are to be exceeded. The only answer:

• Future successes require acceptance of more tasks (in addition to those already performed) and in the doing of that accepting, remaining at the same pay scale.

• The only way to successfully do this is to eliminate them vs. us, and become WE.

• Together, with all our best interests in mind, everyone needs to "get bigger".

I hope they can.