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| 'Zines: On Paper, Off The Record Her metabolic business model had bite. It masticated, swallowed, and excreted competitor and customer alike. Surviving on strategy and persistence she fought and gouged and axed her way to the top of a burial mound of moldering periodicals. Mortality will never be an issue around here, she often panted, not as long as I'm in this chair, and all her grateful underlings would exhale, relieved, but what else would you expect of a current and athletic editor? More volume, certainly, and there were occasions when that nearly happened. More competitive advantages, more jockeying for positions, more virtual actualities. A suggestion of integrity failed to generate the required enthusiasm. When they flipped over the advertisements they made sure that in almost every case there was writing on the back, but if it went on too long, redundantly, or just too long, that was when they had to turn up the pressure on sales, since everyone else was out to lunch. The workplace soon became the workspace, the workers within were cubed and multiplied and everyone came to admire such brilliance. Even the accountants found inspiration and fulfillment in their books. They rolled up their sleeves, so to speak, and were soon on a roll. When they took roll they made sure everyone had a role. Only the cleaning people knew how much paper they were going through, but no one ever stopped to ask. Of course, it wasn't long before it was just a place to work again and everything was simplified, you know, made real simple. No embarrassing paper trails. |
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