Mammon category archive
Chartering a Course for Disaster (and Other Bad Trips) 0
Thoreau looks at charter schools and other educational “reform” movements. He is not impressed.
Here’s a bit:
Read the whole thing. It will be two minutes well spent.
Sucklers at the Public Teat 0
The suckling pigs are not who you think they are.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Another one bites the dust.
Citing insurmountable financial obstacles, the Palmer charter sent letters to families and staff on Friday informing them that the school would close permanently Wednesday.
The move sent teachers on quests for new jobs and information about filing for unemployment, and left families of the school’s 675 students in kindergarten through eighth grade scrambling for new schools.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Quality destruction at a price that’s right.
Complaints about the Georgia-based company have been pouring in since shortly after IAL started the job in May. Service members’ cars were arriving late, IAL’s tracking system was inaccurate, and the company was not responding to grievances or queries.
Plus, many of the vehicles that do get delivered are delivered damaged. Much more at the link.
Chartering a Course to Disaster 0
The Privatization Scam strikes again (with bonus must-take quiz).
Once More Uber the Top Boys! 0
Uber alienates another fan. Thanh Tan, columnist for the Seattle Times, joins the ranks of the fed up.
Even worse, Uber has morphed into the guy who won’t take no for an answer; the man who believes he is entitled to the entire cake.
I wonder, is it possible for an entire company to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Once the con is in the can, who gets the leftovers?
Cry-Baby Geeks 1
David Cook has had enough Uber.
Someone had to put their foot down.
“Enough!” I yelled. “Quit acting like Uber!”
Uber is the business world’s spoiled child. It doesn’t play well with others, won’t respect its elders and seems to have forgotten everything it was supposed to learn in school.
Do read the rest.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Philadelphia Daily news editorializes about yet another example when you let persons interested in profit loose to dine at the public’s table.
ASPIRA has not responded to requests for documentation on the job, and attempts by the Daily News to contact Lyon Contracting were unsuccessful. Their phone number is no longer in service. Meanwhile, the district’s Office of Inspector General has begun an investigation.
Double-Dipping 0
See what happens when the fee hand of the market meets the privatization scam.
Uber uber uber 0
Joe Nocera exlains how customer service is in no way related to the snaring sharing economy.
And, speaking of the snaring economy . . . .
The Privatization Scam 0
Another example of the sterling superiority of the private(er) sector:
Jamal Ahli Foods was established solely to add an extra layer of profit – averaging 32 percent on top of the profit built into the military contract – on the supplies sold by Supreme, according to a court filing.
“We regard their crimes as the worst sort of war profiteering,” Bea Witzleben, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, told U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter during Monday’s hearing.
Dollars to doughnuts that this is just a small fish . . . .
A Modest Proposal 0
F. T. Rea runs an idea up the flagpole just to see who salutes.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Know them by the company they keep.