{"id":583,"date":"2011-10-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/10\/a-brief-u-s-history-of-corporate-whining\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:20:18","slug":"a-brief-u-s-history-of-corporate-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/10\/a-brief-u-s-history-of-corporate-whining.html","title":{"rendered":"A Brief U.S. History of Corporate Whining"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-t1QS1wLpdAg\/To2iquzUC2I\/AAAAAAAACJg\/gTt5aOr-VqU\/s1600\/Brief+History+of+Corporate+Whining.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-t1QS1wLpdAg\/To2iquzUC2I\/AAAAAAAACJg\/gTt5aOr-VqU\/s320\/Brief+History+of+Corporate+Whining.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Heh. Before you get your dander up, turn red in the face trying to scare me with the facts of the imminent demise of all that is right and true about the American Way, I\u2019ve got one word for Corporate America: <em>quitcherbellyachin\u2019. <\/em><br>\n<a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br>\nAnd Wall Street firms: Don\u2019t even <em>think about<\/em> lowering executive compensation or bonuses. That\u2019s unconscionable. Instead, <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daniel-gross\/wall-street-pinches-pennies-effort-avoid-bonus-cuts-181420581.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lay off the cannon fodder, make the remaining folks count paper clips, drink smaller cups of coffee, and stop using their company provided cell phones (and stuff like that) first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing (or close to a dozen),<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinembaprograms.org\/warren-quote\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.onlinembaprograms.org.s3.amazonaws.com\/warren-quote.gif\" alt=\"Warren Quote\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>\nCreated by: Online MBA Programs<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/thoughts-on-economy-catholic-and-not.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thoughts on the Economy, Catholic and Not.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-854674725090555865?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. Before you get your dander up, turn red in the face trying to scare me with the facts of the imminent demise of all that is right and true about the American Way, I\u2019ve got one word for Corporate America: quitcherbellyachin\u2019. And Wall Street firms: Don\u2019t even think about lowering executive compensation or bonuses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36,37],"tags":[87,8],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","category-working","tag-economics","tag-funstuff"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Brief U.S. History of Corporate Whining<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heh. 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