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On 12/9/2004 11:20 PM, Terrible Tom wrote:
| I have learned too well that they are out for the
| most money they can make in the least amount of time at the expense of
| their employees. Blue collar workers are cannon fodder when it comes to
| cost cutting in corporate america. My current employer is no different.
As has been illustrated to me by my current employer many times now, if
you aren't actively engaged in bringing money into the company, you are
an expense. If the company would be lost w/o the services your
department provides (IT), they don't even consider that. Revenue isn't
directly the result of your activities, therefore you aren't positively
contributing to the bottom line - you're hurting it.
| I think companies want high turn over rates so they can
| keep employment costs down... even if it means having people in
| positions they are incapable of handling.
Cheaper to fire a $60K employee every 2 years and replace him w/ someone
you're paying $45K for the same job (or, bring in no replacement, and
just put more load on those who remain) than to keep that $60K employee
around.
| If the jobs aren't in
| technology anymore - where does one look for a job that can allow you to
| live well? When the IT boom happened not so long ago - I thought yeah -
| cool - I wanna get into that someday... since then - I look back and
| think "damn - good thing I didn't rush into an education for that".
Maybe you were looking into it for the wrong reasons. If you were
swayed from it just because the bubble burst, I don't think you would
have been happy long-term in that career.
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