The entitled American

The entitled American

Patrick Crothers - I have ran several major corporations operations. I have spent half my career in the private sector with some short tours in government service and the rest in academia. Slowly over the last 45 years the work ethic of native Americans has declined to a point that in my last corporate position I fired everyone of my American employees and hired immigrants to take their place. The company was AT&T Capital Computer leasing. They had a very serious problem. The people who helped run the second largest computer lessor in the world Could not process the equipment returning from lease in a timely manner and if I suggested that they try this or that to cut the time required to return these computers, printers, monitors and other related equipment to new conditions. My employees were temps and I promised raises and training to earn certifications that would improve their value if they quit and went to work somewhere else. Well the equipment. returning from lease kept coming and even increased as Enron suddenly collapsed. My crew went slower. It was sad as one by one I took them aside and told them I had to replace some members of the crew. I started interviewing new people with one request. They could not be natural born Americans. I hired a Sudanese refugee named Bol and what a difference. He asked questions, sought new knowledge and did everything we asked. He did not like working with African Americans as he thought they were all saddled with something like drugs, arrogance or criminal tendencies. Bol was saving to pay the ransom to get his wife out of the Sudan. It took seven years but he did it and had a baby right off named after me. I was touched. One by one I turned the whole department over. I hired the first woman ever hired there. She was tiny but was valedictorian of her college class in Electronic Engineering. Everyone declared doom would visit but actually she was very good and soon the guys cleaned their language up and went to her for help. I hired refugees from Central America and Laos and suddenly the work started getting done. It was a bit of a chore to keep the African Christians away from the Muslims but that worked out too as these people wanted to work and learn and had no feeling of entitlement as my natural born Americans showed. I designed a psychological test to weed out the slothful ones but after a couple of years and working on new designs with the programers I got tired of the military taking everything we did and quit and went back to Anthropology. I had received a large bonus check and stock options so I split the check with the crew and thank them for becoming Americans. As I told them. Our country could not survive with out new blood like them selves and it is true.