Getting And Giving Business Poem by Barry Van Allen

They are doing that to me all of the time,
- - - and I still have my pants on;
perhaps there is something fundamental
that I missed along the way...

They don't bother anymore to even ask
if it was good for me...
They just do it and move on!
I suppose that I'm old - fashioned,
but, that's not the way that I do business!

I understand a faster pace,
but, if I can't see your face,
it just gets hard to know who I am
looking eye to eye with!
... That really is your point, isn't it?

You only want the money - - -
and the really sad part is;
that you really do believe
that that 's the way that things should be!

Here's a hoop - - - now, jump through that,
- - - call our number please,
- - - we can't hire human beings,
we are too cheap for that...
and we want our captive audience to listen
to our bullshit endlessly!

STOP pushing that 'operator' button,
O.K. - - - fine... speak to our man in India,
you didn't say that he should speak a language
that you could understand!

SO, Mrs. CEO - - - don't always go by
what Mr. CFO says - - -
sure, he's the best at counting beans,
but, if he had any clue about the meaning of it all...
Wouldn't he have your job?

Just try an experiment...
call your company - - -
pretend to be a common person - - -
there may be lessons there to learn.

One piece of advice, however...

KEEP your knees together!