Losers around the world are waking up today to the sad
realization that regardless of what they've been told in school and the
workplace, the win-win scenario just doesn't exist.
"It's a ploy," said Ben Down from Montauk, NY,
who admits he spent thousands on self-help, "feel good" books and
tapes before realizing it was all a scam.
"I played along for most of my life and look where
it's gotten me," he said from the sad little 8 x 10 room he now calls home
at the Happy-go-Lucky Retirement Home just a few blocks from where he once
lived.
Down and millions like him say they would love to blow
the cover off the win-win folks, but they simply don't have a clue as to who
they might be. More importantly, most losers say they just don't have the
gumption.
"Oh, I tried to grab life by the balls many a
time," he said, "but just could never get a good grip on 'em and ended
up saying the hell with it. Maybe I took that term a little too literally,"
he said nodding off to sleep, waking up long enough to add
"Falderdall," before slumping into a restful nap.
Many others are telling similar stories.
"Oh yeah, I hear opportunity knocking all
right," said Dee Flayted, "but before I can even get the door all the
way open, some snot-nosed kid down the hall slams up against it and smashes it
back into my face. Win-win, whatta laugh," she said scornfully.
Flayted says she even dished out a bunch of money to
attend a leadership conference.
"Things were going well until someone said to me
'positive and negative are directions. Which direction do you choose?' I chose
down."
Said Flayted, "When you experience your first
win-lose situation, you may as well resign yourself to the fact that lose-lose
is just around the corner."
