Employer advises Dumpster-diving for axed workers

From Reuters via the Houston Chronicle:

Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp. advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.

The No. 5 U.S. carrier, which has slashed most employees' pay and is looking to cut jobs as it prepares to exit bankruptcy, put the tips in a booklet handed out to about 50 workers and posted for a time on its employee Web site.

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Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college.

Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too

From the film Caddyshack.

So, outsourcing, downsizing, permanent layoffs, bloodletting, whatever you want to call it, has been around for a long time now. But never, never, never, have I encountered such hardcore gloating coming from these corporate powerhouses while in the act of throat-slitting--traditionally, these suited and neck-tied profit machines disguised as people are too worried about PR to dogpile their no longer needed employees. I guess this is simply a testament to how comfortable the elite have become with the disposability of workers. And by "workers" I mean "human beings."

I remember years ago in high school some of the guys I hung out with decided that the most effective and devastating way to flip someone off was to take your outstretched middle finger and press it heavily right between the eyes of the person to be offended--try it sometime; it really works. Anyway, this dig-in-the-trash thing is tantamount to the bird-between-the-eyes, if you ask me.

Damned corporate bastards.

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