![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Beverly-Hills-In-N-Out-Menu-Boeard-in-n-out-burger-10259203-1598-1188-1024x761.jpg\" "\\"Beverly-Hills-In-N-Out-Menu-Boeard-in-n-out-burger-10259203-1598-1188\\"")
<\/a>In & Out Beverly Hills!<\/p><\/div>\n
audience we chatted for over 2 hours.\u00a0 Made me late… to getting stood up!\u00a0 hahaha..\u00a0 (but his excuse was surfing.. and well, I ALWAYS forgive a man who surfs!)<\/p>\n
When I told Mr. Engaging\u00a0 about my parenting strategies.. chore sticks, outsourcing my work to them, adults-in-training philosophy.. he just looks at me with his jaw dropped… “Brilliant!”\u00a0 His kids are younger than mine & he’s seeing all the possibilities of adopting my ideas.\u00a0 (umm.. egotistical point.. hee hee hee)<\/p>\n
One of the things we discussed was\u00a0 Solar.\u00a0 Turns out he’s in the industry and I was spouting about that before I knew that piece of information and he clarified one thing that was always baffling to me.\u00a0 See, right now there are two solar options.\u00a0 You can pay the money and put solar on your house & get your electricity for almost free.\u00a0 Or you can let someone else put it on your house at no cost to you and you pay them a reduced rate for your electricity while they sell the excess back to the city.<\/p>\n
Now for a long time I wondered, “Why the hell isn’t the electric company doing that itself!\u00a0 Putting it on homes for free & selling electricity to us at half the costs!”\u00a0 Why is there a middle man involved?\u00a0 And T explained it to me with the perfect terminology.\u00a0 So clear, I just had to share it!<\/p>\n
Outsourcing.<\/p>\n
Wait, wait.. keep reading!\u00a0 See the electric companies don’t really know a lot about installing & maintaining solar.\u00a0 They are big conglomerates who know about distributing power & well, answering to shareholders!\u00a0 And when something is NOT (and this is the perfect phrase) a “Company’s Core Competency” it makes more financial sense to outsource it to a company where that competency lies.<\/p>\n
I’m sitting there saying.. OMG.. that makes complete sense!\u00a0 Plus not only does this middle company with the Core Competency\u00a0 get the work.. it becomes a burgeoning industry that is creating jobs as it grows.\u00a0\u00a0 In that way, outsourcing is a wonderful boon.<\/p>\n
When its done right.<\/p>\n
So we talk more about various ways outsourcing has been terribly or perfectly used.\u00a0 I do manage NOT to bring up the sitcom Outsourced!\u00a0 Haha.<\/p>\n
Then I explain to him my theory about how shareholders are what’s ruining our economy.\u00a0 How if a company DIDN’T go public, if instead it focused its profits on building the business, making a quality product and trickling down the profits to the employees, society would be better off.\u00a0 Once a company whore’s itself out to shareholders by going public.. it seems to become ALL about the bottom line, making profit any way it can.. because its beholden to its new pimp.. The Shareholders.\u00a0 (And sadly WE are those pimps.)<\/p>\n
THAT is how we create a system that hires CEO’s for HUGE salaries and DISGUSTING bonuses with their sole goal of bringing lots of profit to the Shareholders.\u00a0 In any way they can.<\/p>\n
And I point out my shining example of a successful company NOT going public.\u00a0 In and Out Burger.\u00a0\u00a0 Hourly wage starts at $10 an hour and Managers get a percentage of sales.\u00a0 I’ve heard there’s a lot of perks but judging from my In & Out its a great, clean place for teens to work.\u00a0\u00a0 They are family owned & let the profits trickle down to a GOOD, cheap burger from a quality establishment.<\/p>\n
Plus I just love the concept of a burger “animal style” hee hee hee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I met a wonderful man this weekend.\u00a0 Only 4 years younger but thoroughly enjoying life just like me.\u00a0 Fan of Muse (point) AND 98.7 (Point!) has all boys (point) NOT a stitch of fat on his body (point) lol.. … Continue reading