tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618276.post4327793190212051360..comments2024-03-14T05:19:03.379-05:00Comments on Koranteng's Toli: A Resource ActionKorantenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05280138409675883100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618276.post-40372017073767576202013-06-07T14:08:45.661-05:002013-06-07T14:08:45.661-05:00A postscript of sorts...
There should be a statut...A postscript of sorts...<br /><br />There should be a statute of limitations on the setbacks that one encounters in life and I thought that a six year delay in publishing this note surely sufficed. <br /><br />Friends and family who heard about my 2007 "resource action": were always surprised to hear that my first reaction was to write a poem and focus on documenting the process and the language used; poetry or reportage are not your traditional stages of grief but, as a son of a journalist, I seem to be wired that way. In any case, my friends and family helped me land in a better place.<br /><br />The timing also worked out because the blow, and, more importantly, the subsequent recovery, came before The Great Depression descended on us. I have my own barometers about this last ongoing disaster and note merely that I still have many friends and family members dealing with their own resource actions from that period. Still, in 2013 I am hopeful about a 'small recovery'. <br /><br />My pat answer to those who ask me about "what went down at IBM" remains the same: "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. There was a resource action". I still don't know what the phrase really means but what you've read here was my best guess at a definition. Ionesco would have loved such <a href="http://koranteng.blogspot.com/2007/10/by-way-of-ionesco.html" rel="nofollow">phrases intended to obscure</a>.Korantenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05280138409675883100noreply@blogger.com