After months upon months of posts related to potential or in-progress layoffs, it seems appropriate to take a moment and step away from all the negativity (particularly the kind we've been subjected to since 1996) and embrace a sense of positivity.
Christmas is next week, followed by New Years shortly thereafter. May the happiness and joy that was once normal to us when growing up as children return to each of us, and fill the coming weeks with genuine joy.
'Multi-cultural' holiday office celebrations. And that, right there, is the entire source of the problem... don't you think?
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Maybe the AS corporate theme song can be Bob Marley's "One Love" to make us feel all right.
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I think it's hilarious that we can continue sharing our sense of humor by hassling Mr., Mrs., and Ms. Positivity. That plus all the references to The BEES! When's the concert? Honestly, I think moving some of these discussions to youtube videos would be HI-larious!
Please! Someone DO this!
@MrPositivity I'm offended by your usage of 3 exclamation points.
Use of the word ‘Chicago’ also offensive
Mrs Positivity
Your usage of the word Ind——no is offensive !!!
And given you used the word labor, you are not American.
While some of the C Suite decisions appear to have been a bit random, I suspect that it's largely due to bad advice from incompetents who largely believe that the corporation can save money by off-shoring projects to India. The decision making that went into this ignores the history of the last ten+ years, where corporation after corporation have initially RAVED about all the benefits of using Indians for development. Ultimately, though, they read "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN" on the wall. To
be clear, this is NOT some kind of racist rant about indians. It's a reality-based commentary of how those groups work. Or don't.
While use of foreign labour has some benefits, there are also a lot of problems: Language and understanding, quality of work, completion of difficult tasks in a timely manner, etc. Having worked with various groups at different companies over decades, there's a common pattern that off-shore leadership would prefer to not discuss: time and again, it has felt like the corporations I'm consulting to are being used as college-level training programs. This is a pattern that is highly objectionable, yet never seems to be properly addressed.
All this said, it's still important to recognize some of the benefits we've gained from Allscripts. Working for a Chicago company has a lot of benefits you can't get to from companies located elsewhere.
Wishing all of you the VERY VERY best during this holiday season. We ALL actually deserve it.
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Well, it's not too hard to guess who will be getting the largest piece of coal from SantaBee this holiday. Congratulations on finally excelling at something!
Happy Holidays to the Queen Bee and her Baby Bees.
Maybe Santa can leave them a Sunrise deal to bid on.
I don't I mix any work memories into anything Christmas . I suggest the same.
That’s great. Hope none of us are RIFd before the end of the year. Good luck all.
Nice sentiments. I do have fond memories of the multi-cultural holiday office celebrations during my time at Allscripts. Happy Holidays!