Re: stockmarket beating of the former employer

On Aug 11, 8:02 pm, Straydog <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You have the option of cursing. Cursing is also legal.

I never swear. The reason is because it is totally ineffective.


It is an option
which is the symetrical opposite of what the Germans call "schadenfreude"

I have seen the term "schadenfreude" recently. It was on the blog of
the person who kept off from buying a house during the bubble run, and
having experienced abuse from those who did. Now they are hurting, and
he experiences satisfaction. He explains it from the philosophical
point of view that he should not experience shame,
http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/06/11/the-reservoir-of-schadenfreude


I know many people with such feelings. We have another saying that goes
something like "Tell me when these guys are walking down a dark alley" if
you get my drift.

Well, I learnt from the Internet that the CEO of the company got the
CEO position with another biotech startup. I got a desire to call to a
board director and ask him: "See, this new CEO was presiding over the
company which had a drop of share price to 1/100th under his
management, and he did not come up with the product to the market for
15 years, all the while gobbling up the investor's money. He was
ousted for that. Why do you think he will do better with your company,
and what will your shareholders think about your decision to hire
him ?" But I did not do it... it probably was useless.


Think about all of the wars that have happened in the last thousands of
years of recorded history and ask yourself for how many of these wars did
victims families and survivors of attacks have bad feelings and bad
memories about those who attacked them.

My grandparents on both sides were well-off farmers, and they were
sent into exile just for that reason. My grandmother told me that they
were set off the train in the middle of the freezing field, and they
had to dig holes to live in. Both of her 1-year old children died.
Later, she got a girl who was killed working in the coal mine during
the 2nd World War. She got another couple of sons (one of them was my
father), and they grew up and did rather well (one of them became a
head of hospital, and another just a scientist). But they both died in
their 50s (from stressful life). My grandmother kept on living for
quite a while after that. She must've experienced quite a lot. My
sorrows at the moment are nothing compared with her -- I am sitting in
a comfortable office every day, and I feed myself with a quality food.
(I suppose my grandma lived that long because she was that kind of
person who never took issues close to her heart... but that's another
topic.)


old idea: fool me once-shame on you; fool me twice-shame on me.

Exactly ! This is why I never fall for the job offers from _private_
companies. I better be employed in the government.


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