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Anyone can incorporate. It's the size that makes some as inefficient as the federal government.Originally Posted by Fe 26
I don't really consider corporations to be ideal businesses.
They're a little broken and insane if you stand back from them.
EDIT. Free documentaries has it
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=102
I might watch it later tonight
Last edited by Fe 26; 02 Jun 2011 at 07:24 PM.
Anyone can incorporate. It's the size that makes some as inefficient as the federal government.
Its just the way they are these days that bothers me. So many of them are ran by a bunch of kids coming from old money that bought into running them. They don't really like the products, the people working for them, or the people they sell to. They're just rich fucks for the sake of being rich fucks.
Sure, not all of them are like that. But those big multi nationals feel like it sometimes.
But that is just me. I don't care if people become millionaires. I just don't like buying from them if they don't care anything about how they got that way.
I somewhat agree with what Cheeks is saying. Apple do care about its customers, but just not for any altruistic reasons. Apple stores are like temples for Apple zealots. People love spending time there, and the employees are really helpful and willing to do anything and everything to make the customers happy (although, I have never asked for the backroom BJ). They do this to retain customers loyalty and of course, slowly building the Steve Jobs cult (as soon as he kicks the bucket).
Dude. Ask for the BJ.
So much ****ing semen.
Fwiw, Netflix is turning it's focus back to discs.
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/net...ack-disc-24127
Speaking June 2 at the Nomura U.S. Media Summit in New York, Sarandos reiterated previous-day comments from CFO David Wells that the service had been obsessed with streaming to the point that physical rental was “calmly running on its own” and taken for granted
This includes increased marketing efforts in regions of the country with low broadband penetration that would be better served with a stronger disc rental option.
“Over the next couple of months (and couple of years) you’ll see us putting more focus on it,” Sarandos said.
“Right now it is a couple of bucks more to get all the discs you want. There is some room in there to right that and put a little more focus on the DVD business.”
Meanwhile, Sarandos criticized the brick-and-mortar industry for not pushing their advantage compared to Netflix. He faulted studios and retailers for not more aggressively pursuing 28-day delays on new releases, including organizing studio-wide participation and greater marketing efforts at retail.
“It would have been much more effective on DVD sales had other studios done it, had other retailers got into it and had retailers embraced it more,” Sarandos said. “There should have been end-caps at Best Buy that said ‘Not on Netflix’ and moving those movies to the front of the store. That barely happened.”
Braaaaaaainssssss
Why would you buy a movie at all? Netflix that shit. Streaming holds you over until the disc arrives. It's not like a game you play over and over or an album full of emotional and artistic value. It's a damn movie. Watch it once, twice if Arnold's in it, and move on.
i drink it up!
Ironplant: Good corporations are few and far between. But even then happy people does not equal healthy bottom line. Look at 2008 EA when they decide to shift to new IP's and creativity over run of the mill yearly series. Their bottom line suffered the most it had in almost a decade! Great companies have a happy balance between a great product, a happy employee, and a well tended consumer. Again, few and far between.
It is literally the MANDATE of a public corporation to make money. A CEO, though rarely convicted ever, can be prosecuted if they are proven in contempt of this mandate. Though usually they are just tarred and feathered publicly then fired.
I'll give you another example: banking. Banks are progressively moving in to the online realm. It's convenient. Yet bank fee's and service charges cost more than ever even though the banks went from paying dollars a day to give you service via a teller, to pennies a day with ABMs, and now to a fraction of a penny with online. I would be ecstatic without the bank rape fee every month to hold my money (8 - 20 bucks or some stupid shit if I dip below 8000 bucks in a savings account) but them doing so is prohibitive to their bottom line so they don't. And realistically all banks have this policy so I can't take my dollars elsewhere, either. But overall I feel I get very good service overall so while I'm not happy I don't complain, either. It's all about balance.
My goal for my company is to stay lean. I don't want to go over 40 or 50 employee's tops (or maybe I'll even try to stay micro with 10 or so). Helps us cut costs and make decisions quick. I truly and honestly HATE board meetings 90% of the time. Because 90% of the time nothing gets resolved and it ends up just being rambling about what we're going to do and not how we're going to do it.
Last edited by Drewbacca; 08 Jun 2011 at 12:52 PM.
that mandate thing really should end.
It is almost a form of slavery.
i drink it up!
More money = more success in the mind of a wall street guy. And that's where a companies stocks are traded whether they're a vineyard in California or a media company in Chicago. The common denominator between them is money.
The dollar is mightier than the ballot.
the sword.
the law.
the whatever.
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