Yep, and it also undermines the "social fabric." Part of being a good corporate citizen is taking care of folks working for you and the surrounding community. It's a two-way street.
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Yep, and it also undermines the "social fabric." Part of being a good corporate citizen is taking care of folks working for you and the surrounding community. It's a two-way street.
The problem is that we have uninformed and/or lazy consumers who continue to make the other half of that street function. I get that there are some industries that are oligopolies, but the majority of them have alternatives that are worth supporting if people would wake up.
But we are all guilty of it. I mean, I wear Nike stuff. Look at all the tablets and electronics we buy. It's a shame. But I don't really know how to fix that, other than the obvious. To me, that is why I think government should do more. You think they screw things up; I try to be more optimistic and think that because it's possible to fix it, it will be fixed.
Get the companies to open their checkbooks. I am not sure that anything will change course until it's a little too late. But maybe that's inevitable and why powerful nations eventually fall.
Except Germany.
One of us has history on his side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1368984412Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
pretty much this. As someone that has been looking for the past couple of months, Dif is completely right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
You see a lot of retarded shit like "entry level position -must have 4 years of experience" or "5+ years of experience with Fortran." Another was an assistant an aerospace place that must be able to make presentations and word documents. Must have an MBA, and pay was $35,000. Good luck finding someone with two degrees that will work for $35,000. Sure, there are los of people with out degrees that could do that work but they've locked them out by demanding an MBA.
Either HR is balls to the wall retarded, or someone is writing job requirements, hoping that no American can or would fill them and they can bring in cheap foreign workers.
Well, I know that most people writing job requirements have no idea what they are writing. At least in my experience. Some of the software development requirements are stupid. I know this because if you found someone that knows and has done all that, they are lying. Or know it very superficially.
I think part of it is to weed out underconfident people, but I think that is a grave mistake.
My company, which is highly reliant upon part-time workers, is saying that the maximum amount of hours part-timers can be scheduled is 25 hours (the new cut-off point for benefits is 30 hours). The rumored cost of paying these workers benefits is a fraction of last year's profits. The company already slashed its percentage of full-time workers last year, downgrading many of them to part-time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I'm sure that there is rampant bitching in the executive suite about their tax dollars paying for government assistance, but our company's practices indicate that as leaders, they have no problem sending their own employees to the poorhouse. You want affordable health insurance for your children? Just think of the bottom line!
Perhaps this is how we will fix our country's unemployment woes: Low-wage, low-hour jobs for everyone! Horray!
When hasn't management bent employees over for sake of the bottom line? They'd pay workers nothing if they could get away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
The side that's pro government? It sure does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
You know what else is awesome? Not letting companies out source their labor to their own customers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
If there are too many dependent parasites with the minimum wages where it sits what makes you think,Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
a. companies would hire needlessly <- probably most important point here
b. people would be willing to work for less than the current minimum
c. that it would fix any of the current problems with labor supply or demand
d. it would fix welfare plugging so many wage holes so people would have enough to buy a pot to piss in
Generally speaking if you want to get some to work for you that is able but not willing then your offer has to go up, not down.
Where all these jobs hiding? They sitting next to Jesus keeping guard on Jimmy Hoffa's body?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Silly Yoshi, no one can go to school for everything. So unless you expect college grads to have crystal balls to know which engineering degree they ought to get 4+ years down the line and where they should live we'll wind up with the problems we're facing.