Generation Bubble

Screw U.: Higher Learning, the Humanities and "Total Quality Management"

“[Adding] fresh value to the subject of his labours,” whether that subject be bedsheets or spreadsheets, certainly makes a diabolical kind of sense; if the object is maximizing profit while minimizing costs, then every nickel squeezed or saved here and there does its humble part in contributing to the bottom line. All that remained to executives was to find hatchet men and women to do the dirty work of putting the screws to the workers. Once they did, “management culture” was born.