Moses: The Corporate World

I'm currently studying the life of Moses and finding God's glory, blessings and humor (yes, humor) throughout his life. Not all of this humor is exactly related to Moses but more about things I read in scripture that strike my funny bone. If it doesn't strike yours the same, well, sorry but its my blog and I'll laugh if I want to....

I work for Dell which has some 100K+ employees all over the world. It doesn't get much more corporate than that. I can honestly say that I so look forward to the day when I can kiss the corporate world goodbye and work at something I want to do because I want to do it and not something that just brings in a healthy paycheck.

Today I was reading Exodus 5 where Moses first approaches Pharaoh and asked that the people be allowed to travel 3 days into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord. This request doesn't sit too well with Pharaoh. He reasons (now, here comes the corporate part) that if the people have enough time on their hands that they can make a 3 day trip for something he considers quite petty, that they must not have enough to do. So, Pharaoh says no to the request and then decides to put new policies in place for the brick makers. Apparently, up until this point, the foremen provided the straw to the brick makers. Pharaoh is now saying that this will no longer be provided. The people will now have to go find their own straw wherever they can to make their bricks and even though this new process is much more difficult than their past process, they still must produce the same quota of bricks per day.

Are you seeing it yet? If you have worked around the corporate world very long at all, you have surely experienced layoffs and budget cuts. Of course, they have nice corporate sounding words for layoffs and budget cuts and work really hard at making us feel like its for our benefit - those of us who still have a job.

So, in order to be more efficient and make better use of Pharaoh's (the company's)  resources, we will no longer be able to provide the straw (supplies, staff) previously in place for brick making (order completion, product lines, sales). Because it has been observed that the slaves (staff) have abundant time for 3 day journeys to the wilderness (lunches, breaks, potty breaks) slaves (staff) will now be required to obtain their own straw (office supplies) to complete the required allotment of daily bricks (job requirements). In the long run, this will make our operations much more productive and cost effective resulting in the company stock prices to rise and adding a thicker lining to our shareholder's pockets.  yada, yada, yada,  Who knew the corporate world existed 6000 years ago???