Posted on 06/29/2012 10:52:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chicago -- Obama doesn't just denounce outsourcing on the stump. His campaign HQ is a living test of the theory that everything can be done best in-house.
Out on the campaign trail, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are at the moment engaged a spirited rhetorical debate over what it means to be an "outsourcing pioneer," a phrase borrowed from the Washington Post's coverage of Romney's Bain Capital past. For the most part, it's been discussion waged in generalities. But a tour of Obama's headquarters half-seriously suggests that the president might just want to point to his own campaign as a demonstration of doing things in-house. The scene on this floor of downtown's One Prudential Plaza is of waves of hundreds of staffers working amid a sea of college banners, rubber therapeutic balls, cardboard boxes turned into standing desks, and a visitor is struck by how much their five-year-old political operation has come to believe in rolling its own creative work.
It's as if, should the Obama campaign end tomorrow, you'd have the minds, skill sets, and tools ready to power a decent-sized tech company. Maybe even a small sovereign nation.
According to the story floating around, campaign manager Jim Messina took a year to tap the brains of tech world luminaries like Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt and came away with a few new ideas about how to run an organization. One was the belief in the "pod." Rather than distribute staffers in offices according to job function, this time around much of the Obama campaign is organized around five regional clusters...
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I see lots of weird things. But where’s their diversity?
...Looks like play time at the adult kindergarten...
I couldn’t find a black person in any of the shots.
....Looks like a regional office of ObambiCare....
They must be racist! /sarc
Gee, I don’t see any “people of color” at all. Hmph!
You can be sure our tax dollars are funding this, this time around. Pretty bad when the propaganda is directed at those working there. In the old days you motivated yourself but women have turned workplaces into child care centers where the workers are the children.
It does.
This poster is like a look into their confused minds.
Yes, but I do rather like the poster’s frank admission that they are fools.
It reminds me of Ross Perot’s admission that he was crazy.
But, seriously, the poster is nothing but a logorrhea of slogans and vapid sentiment.
Delusional Narcissism must be a Job Requirement there.
Delusional Narcissism must be a Job Requirement there.
Will we soon see the “Chop Shop” sign at the entrance of every medical facility?
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