Got in trouble just this week for dissing Jack Welch in my business management class

@richardarriaga6271

8 ай бұрын

No surprise. I heard bonuses to the people who trashed the economy in 2008-2009 praised in business classes.

@Tiger74147

7 ай бұрын

I'm sure they exist but never met a good or sensible person that came out of b-school. :\

@AnthonyChinaski

3 ай бұрын

Business School is the academic version of Behind the Bastards

@CynthiaMcG

2 ай бұрын

This is practically heroic these days.

@youmukonpaku3168

2 ай бұрын

@@Tiger74147 accountants come from business school, and while I can't describe my profession as "sensible" it's mostly because trying to figure out what the hell Management is smoking and keep them somewhere at least adjacent to reality drives you to recreational chemistry. Some of us, of course, are also bastards, but having been on the inside, the accounting students are mostly normal people trying to get a job facilitating the world; the management stream is full of nepo babies and the marketing stream is where colleges shunt students who can understand neither empathy nor basic arithmetic. Economics is where you find the really crazy people, but at least some of them go on to write for anarchist zines instead of Bloomberg (it's a coin toss, really.)

Someone mentioned this in the comments for a different video and when I saw the name Robert Evans pop up it was like coming out of a dementia fog. I used to read/watch Cracked religiously for like seven or eight years. Needless to say hearing Swain and Abe warmed my cold dead heart. I feel like that picture of Jack Nicholson in the party at the end of The Shining rn

Its really quite amazing how much damage this guy's ideas did to American society. I feel like every single issue I deal with daily is, in some part, due to this narcissistic prick. I can't tell if his mom gave him too many hugs or not enough but whatever she did, her offspring crushed the lives of millions of people. Great job!

@ianporter2446

5 ай бұрын

Shmargeted shmeshashination?

Imagine quitting in a rage Costanza like, and your coworkers getting you goodbye gifts. Bet they hated him too.

My brother (RIP) was a GE lifer. Was an accountant in different divisions. He was loyal and moved his family around the country for GE. He got me an internship in the mid 90s and looking back I can now see corporate fakeness of the company through interactions with my brother's boss. My brother played the corporate game until he wasn't needed in his mid 50s. He got demoted and humiliated by them moving him from an office to a cubicle with younger GE drones then got laid off.

The US had very strong socialist and communist parties in the late 19th century and early 20th century. They had a strong influence on policies that eventually came out of FDR's presidencies.

How does this shit not have more views

On the PhD front It depends on the PhD honestly. To get through a PhD and never mention it again you need either high intelligence or high drive. To get a good one you need both in reasonable quantities. Almost no one does a PhD for how it feels after which makes me think that he didn't really do one in the traditional sense and was gotten rid of as fast as humanly possible after his viva.

KZread recommended the second part first, of course. So I scrolled down to watch this first.

Decided to look what he looked like up, weirdly more round than what I was expecting…

The water will contain my sin. The water conceals all. Also this guy cheated into becoming a PhD and I guarantee his mother was a complete psycho given the fact he regularly thought she was dead when late.

Getting my PhD was the most important thing in the world to me until the moment I had one, at which point it ceased to matter entirely. Most days I forget I have one. I'm too busy doing my science. And most people I work with have PhDs, so it has little meaning or importance.

40:00 so Jack Welch’s ripped the story of his teenage years from Caddyshack?

I always feel some sympathy for/with people raised as only children by slightly older parents because that's how I was raised, and Jack Welch's upbringing contains echoes of my own. I suppose the difference is that my mom wasn't a neurotic mess who inflated my ego and was obsessed with me becoming "successful". Au contraire, I was the neurotic mess and my parents were very gentle, yet not pushovers. It helps that I wasn't a rule breaker by nature...

23:42

A Stanford lecture about Jack is listed right below part 2…

Shmargeted shmeshashination might just be the way

he was the underperformer, who needed to be fired no matter what

Good topic, but some of the guests feel like they're forcing jokes and the host has to accomodate it

Should be "Jack Welch, The Welch of the American Dream" but ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck.

For me the banter just gets in the way of the interesting subject matter. Still a good listen overall but would totally prefer no guests.

The author of the podcast makes an over simplified argument that old capitalism lived off extracting from the global south and coups and stuff. While ignoring that companies that had extractive interests outside of the US were a small part of the US economy, but we're very profitable for a small elite. The author ignores one of the key rules of empire, foreign possessions are often the playground of a few well connected princelings that use to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers.

Skip to 6:00 to avoid senseless blabber

It's unfortunate that we have an innate need to exaggerate our social villains. I'm not talking about Jack, I'm talking about his mom. They're talking mad shit about her, yet she sounds like the best mom, with the best parenting skills, I've ever heard of.

Starts at around 6:00

As a 1st time listener that came here to learn about the subject of the podcast, your intro was incredibly annoying. Blindly fastforwarding trying to find the actual starting time is completely infuriating.

@bialyjanpiotr

Жыл бұрын

7:00

@bialyjanpiotr

Жыл бұрын

I didnt mean to shit on you in any way but instead offer you some insight. I doubt I'm the only person to ever feel this way

@noskape

Жыл бұрын

​@@bialyjanpiotrYou're not the only one. I also feel the same way

@justwatching1980

11 ай бұрын

@@bialyjanpiotr lol I thought it was just me. I just fast forwarded until 6:00 and started listening. I don't know these guys and I find it annoying to listen to banter from strangers when I just want to hear the subject mentioned in the title. Constructive criticism: add a section from later in the show as a hook, then do the intro, and add chapter edits to show how long the intro is and when the podcast starts. Nice to have: chapter marks for Welch's bio, etc. I added a bunch of other podcasts to watch later.