Re: Idiot dot com'ers..someone not in the Bay Area I'd guess..
-> In the time it takes a UK company to make a decision that they might go ahead with a project a project team in CA would be up and running
This is definitely one thing that I admire about the USA - it can get things done quickly when it wants to. This used to be called the "can do" attitude found in the USA, and AC is right. It is something we haven't had in the UK for about 50 years now. Some people might attribute it our lack of "vim" to "health and safety". It's not, though that might be a symptom of it. There is a general malaise these days about taking risks (I don't mean stupid people doing foolhardy things - they exist everywhere).
We used to have vision in this country but not any more. We are effectively a bankrupt country. We're over £2tn in debt and absolutely no plan to reduce it. Instead we had/have politicians who wanted to add even more debt. I said it a few weeks ago when the Daily Mail was crowing about a "true Tory budget", that we were hours away from a major financial crash. Even the Bank of England is saying that now (https://www.channel4.com/news/economy-was-potentially-hours-away-from-meltdown-says-bank-of-england-governor). Why does this, this unsustainable debt, not affect the USA too? It does. Debt will be the undoing of the USA. Sooner or later other countries will not want to trade using dollars (we already see this for various reasons).
-> If you want a nice predicable career you go work for the f*cking government. Or some big company mindless bureaucracy.
Amen. It probably explains why a lot of low grade accountants work at the Inland Revenue. They're just clever enough to beat Bob the Builder's low grade tax fiddling, but they're not clever enough to beat a company which cheats 10,000s worth of Bob's tax.
I don't like seeing people kicked out of jobs but it happens. As long as there is a reasonable severance package people should not complain. Job for life? Where exactly?