A.G.E's Joint

Good morning and welcome to Orange Inc.  My name is Joe Task and I started this company. Most people compare us to that other fruit company.  The one that makes computers.  People think they are so great and they changed the world with their "innovative" products, like phones and media players and junk.  But in reality, it's my company that began the nightmare. We manufacture Buzzwords.  We took the normal things in offices and homes from around the world and using our patented fraction distillation grammatical methodology (patent pending) and renamed them.  Our words serve to make people seem more businesslike and "professional".  Yes, we invented the "Forward Thinking Manager".  We turned a simple letter into a "Personal Communications Statement." And turned mass layoffs into "Right Sizing and Redeploying Our Human Capital".  All this to support a "Lean Environment", which allows for "Revenue Supluses" to...

I’m paid to be scared. Driven to make The Corporation lean. I  become obsolete. Six Sigma mavens Pushing processes Improvements That are only another Step in the cycle of life Striving to put out More and more fruit From less and less seed, Until there is no Seeds to regenerate. Leaving nothing For the stockholders.   I keep running Keeping One step ahead Of the lean axe, Not worrying about Tomorrow.