Tapsearch Com EditorThe American Dream becomes a nightmare
June 16th 2009 02:18
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This follows post at The World News Net about - Plain Talk about our economic crisis.
By Ray Tapajna, following post from The World News Net and Plain Talk about economic crisis
The American Dream becomes a nightmare
I started my computer career at a relative late age of 31 after having
experience in several fields - small family food business, rack jobber
to supermarkets, factory production work, insurance investigator,
international passenger and cargo airlines, Transportation Army Officer, and other side ventures. I had about twenty years of experience before entering the computer world
since I start working in our family food story at a young age. Add to
this more than 40 years in the computer industry being part of every computer generation.
I helped raise seven children with all having college degrees -
two have advanced degrees. My wife was at my side running parts of
my businesses while raising our children.
This should add up to an American Dream happy ending but it did not.
Starting in 1964, I received my first computer training on the job and
became a National Accounts Manager for major international corporationsbased in the Cleveland/Akron and Pittsburgh areas.
I experienced everything from that level and had dealings with the
highest echelons in management for many years. I enjoyed this vantage
point and have a first hand experience of all kinds of operations. This
proved to me that decentralization was much better than centralization.
Nothing beats the dynamics of local hands on experience in most fields.
Data Processing was launched this way.
I am really not that technical. I come from an artist influenced
background and not a technical one ( although in factory work while going to college full time, I was a set up man for three assembly lines and in inventory control.)
However, I became something of an expert in the field being sought out nationally and internationally for my disk storage and computer know-how.
Computer industry was primarily launched from the streets
and not from the university classrooms or by government agencies
I like so many others in the field I recieved myformal training in corporate
class rooms. One corporation invested two years in training me.
I mixed with students coming from our customer base in these classes.
After that, I attended many classes and seminars
with other companies. The corporations were able to afford training all
these people. The computer age was not launched in our colleges or
government. It was launched from the streets of U.S.A. In fact the
universities did not even have any of these courses during that time.
Ultimately, I became an expert in disk storage and my last jobs were as
a consultant in this area. I helped launch the Cat Scan industry, the
computerized typsetting industry and helped government agencies save
thousands of dollars on disk storage after I presented them with my
study of error correction codes.
IBM trained thousands of systems people and silently laided off 10,000
workers to staff the corporate world in the U.S. This is the main reason
corporations went the IBM way.
Data Processing Managers rose up from the factory floors and from office
management. They were good because they had real world practical
experience in a local setting. This followed the example given by the
foremen sector in our nation that took the young off the streets and
taught them a skill. In turn the young were able to get married, have
children - many had large families- buy a home and help send their
children to college.
The "corporate storekeepers" who were in charge of inventory processes
became super at managing the flow of computer processes. This followed
a period in our history where companies during slow times switch their
workers to making parts for inventory instead of being laid off.
( I maintain that "just-in-time" supply and in-processing
manufacturing are not good things for an economy as a whole. The negatives
outweigh the positives. Plus, the ecology costs of long haul shipping is
another negative still not addressed. )
In computerization or most every other process, local dynamics can not
be beat. In my computer sales career, I challenged the IBM
centralizing processes. At first it looks like a good thing to do.
However, if you go in and forward all the processing from local office
to a central location, you lose all the human dynamics of the situation
that later come back to haunt you. These dynamics are lost forever and
systems are frozen in time.
The success of the computer industry was based on local human dynamics
rising from factory floors and office management. Like most everything
else, it does not work well from the top down.
Not much has happened in Cleveland or in other parts of our country for
the past thirty years because we dismissed most of this logic. The same
talk about converting the "rust belt" will continue even though we lost
it many years ago while people talk as if it was just yesterday. The
same applys to high technology. Cleveland was in the center of this
revolution but lost it too. We gave it away after investing many many
years in it. The free enterprise system is a simple process. You grown
or make something and add a margin to it that provides a decent living
for the owners and the workers. Cut one out of the mix and you have an
econmic nightmare like we do now. Workers remain to be the most
essential tangible value there is . Their value acts as a real money standard.
Free trade and globlization have smashed this value and we now have
reverse tariffs on workers with the bail outs of big money being really
tariffs too.
More than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. Hundreds of
computer manufacturers closed down. Thousands of computer systems houses
and dealers went out of business too. The American Dream turned into a
nightmare.
Cluster of sites by Ray Tapajna under one url
address at Tapsearch Link Bun - Search under Tapsearch or tapsearcher - Yahoo is better than Google for the best references.
The American Dream becomes a nightmare
I started my computer career at a relative late age of 31 after having
experience in several fields - small family food business, rack jobber
to supermarkets, factory production work, insurance investigator,
international passenger and cargo airlines, Transportation Army Officer, and other side ventures. I had about twenty years of experience before entering the computer world
since I start working in our family food story at a young age. Add to
this more than 40 years in the computer industry being part of every computer generation.
I helped raise seven children with all having college degrees -
two have advanced degrees. My wife was at my side running parts of
my businesses while raising our children.
This should add up to an American Dream happy ending but it did not.
Starting in 1964, I received my first computer training on the job and
became a National Accounts Manager for major international corporationsbased in the Cleveland/Akron and Pittsburgh areas.
I experienced everything from that level and had dealings with the
highest echelons in management for many years. I enjoyed this vantage
point and have a first hand experience of all kinds of operations. This
proved to me that decentralization was much better than centralization.
Nothing beats the dynamics of local hands on experience in most fields.
Data Processing was launched this way.
I am really not that technical. I come from an artist influenced
background and not a technical one ( although in factory work while going to college full time, I was a set up man for three assembly lines and in inventory control.)
However, I became something of an expert in the field being sought out nationally and internationally for my disk storage and computer know-how.
Computer industry was primarily launched from the streets
and not from the university classrooms or by government agencies
I like so many others in the field I recieved myformal training in corporate
class rooms. One corporation invested two years in training me.
I mixed with students coming from our customer base in these classes.
After that, I attended many classes and seminars
with other companies. The corporations were able to afford training all
these people. The computer age was not launched in our colleges or
government. It was launched from the streets of U.S.A. In fact the
universities did not even have any of these courses during that time.
Ultimately, I became an expert in disk storage and my last jobs were as
a consultant in this area. I helped launch the Cat Scan industry, the
computerized typsetting industry and helped government agencies save
thousands of dollars on disk storage after I presented them with my
study of error correction codes.
IBM trained thousands of systems people and silently laided off 10,000
workers to staff the corporate world in the U.S. This is the main reason
corporations went the IBM way.
Data Processing Managers rose up from the factory floors and from office
management. They were good because they had real world practical
experience in a local setting. This followed the example given by the
foremen sector in our nation that took the young off the streets and
taught them a skill. In turn the young were able to get married, have
children - many had large families- buy a home and help send their
children to college.
The "corporate storekeepers" who were in charge of inventory processes
became super at managing the flow of computer processes. This followed
a period in our history where companies during slow times switch their
workers to making parts for inventory instead of being laid off.
( I maintain that "just-in-time" supply and in-processing
manufacturing are not good things for an economy as a whole. The negatives
outweigh the positives. Plus, the ecology costs of long haul shipping is
another negative still not addressed. )
In computerization or most every other process, local dynamics can not
be beat. In my computer sales career, I challenged the IBM
centralizing processes. At first it looks like a good thing to do.
However, if you go in and forward all the processing from local office
to a central location, you lose all the human dynamics of the situation
that later come back to haunt you. These dynamics are lost forever and
systems are frozen in time.
The success of the computer industry was based on local human dynamics
rising from factory floors and office management. Like most everything
else, it does not work well from the top down.
Not much has happened in Cleveland or in other parts of our country for
the past thirty years because we dismissed most of this logic. The same
talk about converting the "rust belt" will continue even though we lost
it many years ago while people talk as if it was just yesterday. The
same applys to high technology. Cleveland was in the center of this
revolution but lost it too. We gave it away after investing many many
years in it. The free enterprise system is a simple process. You grown
or make something and add a margin to it that provides a decent living
for the owners and the workers. Cut one out of the mix and you have an
econmic nightmare like we do now. Workers remain to be the most
essential tangible value there is . Their value acts as a real money standard.
Free trade and globlization have smashed this value and we now have
reverse tariffs on workers with the bail outs of big money being really
tariffs too.
More than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. Hundreds of
computer manufacturers closed down. Thousands of computer systems houses
and dealers went out of business too. The American Dream turned into a
nightmare.
Cluster of sites by Ray Tapajna under one url
address at Tapsearch Link Bun - Search under Tapsearch or tapsearcher - Yahoo is better than Google for the best references.
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