Suggested Summer Reading for MTs - - regarding 'how the world turns today/globalization and how - MT IDIOT

I left my employer of TEN YEARS, the subject of this particular forum, on April 27 after months of dealing with being in what felt like "a constant state of shock" -- while I watched my income plummet, my work pool grow from 2 basic primary hospitals and one seconday to about 25 different hospitals and clinics; it was to the point where I never felt like I knew what I was doing.  I was always working in a "different state/city/local region" where all the adjunctive medical facilities, i.e. nursing homes, private specialists who needed "cc's" -- and even pharmacies -- were mumbled by doctors at the end of their mumbled dictations.  I spent more time trying to find "cc addresses" than trying to transcribe the actual dictation -- attempting to deduce some clarity out of often mumbled dictation.

Well -- I'm not a part of it any more, thank God.  I'll have a new part-time job in a different "field" soon.

Meanwhile, someone recommended a book to me which I picked up, and now I'm recommending it to those of you who whose curiosity about the world is never quite satisfied.

The constant influx of new rules and regulations regarding the use of QA and the application of 10% and 5% quotas, before major cuts in pay per line, had me in SHOCK.  And when I began reading this book, it didn't take me long to see the "metaphorical, philosophical, cultural connections" between the way major global businesses are running themselves TODAY, and the emergence of certain trends in the way business "at-large" is being done in the world. 

When you find yourself impacted by a series of SUDDEN disorienting changes in the basic parts of your life, which to me would certainly include YOUR JOB, do you find yourself feeling a lot of confusion and really not being able to figure out how to respond?   You may get a lot of "free advice" telling you about "the new way things are" and "the proper way to adjust to the new way things are."

Here's a little suggestion for some summer reading, for those of you with "big curiousity" about the new global business environment, of which, I was and you all are, only a tiny speck off in a tiny dusty corner somewhere -- but nevertheless, part of it.

Read "The Shock Doctrinen" by Naomi Klein.  It's a New York Times Bestseller. an International Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, SanFrancisco Chronicle Bestseller, Boston GlobeBest Seller, USA Today Bestseller and BookSense Bestseller.

The way I see it, the majority of us are/were just the "worker bees."  We get born here on the Planet, and we become educated to the fact that we are going to have to work for a living if we want to eat and have shelter, etc.  Then we wind up SOMEWHERE on the CHESSBOARD OF LIFE, and people who went to the big business schools of the world like Harvard or other similar --- who either wrote the manual to the newest way to play chess, or spend their lives re-interpreting it -- once again begin to re-write the laws of business culture and "how the world really is."  We're PAWNS, and THEY ARE NOT.

Read this book and see if it doesn't help you formulate a more clarified picture of the business world we now live in, new theories of " how things are and how things are going to be," -- promulgated for us by the EXPERTS.