cio.com — The "new normal" for employment doesn't work for anyone except employers and career coaches who are trying to sell how the recession is an opportunity for resourceful people. That's why they both want us to accept depressed salaries and bigger workloads as the new status quo.
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confirmedcynicFeb 18, 2010
The sole compensation is that companies are killing the golden goose. Consumerism has been sustained by credit up until now. With fewer being able to afford their products, they'll do less business. So they'll try to get by with even fewer employees, which means even less consumption of their products. It's a downward spiral; they'll be screwing themselves in the end.The only way out is to be halfway independent from their system, so you can live on your half of a real income. Start looking to be able to grow some of your own food and maybe install some solar panels as they become less expensive.
yournamehereFeb 18, 2010
it's spelled 'whine'... if you're trying to be clever
ripple01Feb 18, 2010
If this is happening to you, you need to call the Department of Labor and the IRS on your employer.
demicritterFeb 18, 2010
Corporate America, especially the large manufacturers, have viewed labor as a necessary evil. I guess it's not unexpected when Unions make wild-eyed demands, like the UAW, which won concessions allowing laid-off workers to collect 95% of their salaries for DOING NOTHING! They'd sit in so-called job banks playing cards and reading the paper. Talk about entitled!US auto companies, once a great supporter of small manufacturing, began consolidating is supply ranks driving business to larger and larger sub-suppliers whom they could beat up for better pricing and terms. The small guys were forsaken by the accountants, purchasing and corporate execs. "Screw em!" They left these guys out in the cold, whose businesses pock the corners of industrial so-called rust belt cities. The auto companies constituency, those to whom they sell their crap products, were only as useful when they could be sold a car that they used to have a vested interest in producing.Large overheads are pernicious and unsustainable especially in a global market leveraging slave labor. The small manufacturer can do very well, out-innovating their larger competition and beating them with personalized service. Until people start to grab their power back these crazy employment problems will persist.
Closed AccountFeb 18, 2010
I did exactly that after I quit and my 'employer' refused to pay me. The IRS cornholed him. It was beautiful.
rfrstormerFeb 19, 2010
China and India, really any country, are not to be under-appreciated for what they can do.. Frankly, that is how we got here. This is now a global issue, as we drop here in the US we will be purchasing less, which means that China and the rest of the world will not be making as much off us. So there will be a reckoning as this happens across the global economies. We will need to create Cheap energy sources, jobs to support them and the new infrastructures. We need to improve and re-build our roads and commercial transport systems to decrease cost of commerce in the US. Manufacturing improvements, robotics, nano scale technologies, and more will be needed to decrease the cost of manufacturing goods here in the states. Of course these are all just the start of what is really needed to be done.During the time we are re-building and re-educating ourselves, we will not be purchasing as much energy via oil and etc, and we will not have the resources to continue to purchase items from Countries that currently rely on us to keep their economies going. So, we all will slide as this happens. Still at some point China and India and other nations will take over where we are now, and will become the worlds consumer as we re-develop and re-engineer ourselves into not just a superpower, but a world power. We along with our partners will work together, and show the world the next stage of technology and economic growth as we move forward. First thing, we also need to suck up our pride, and realize that the school system as it stands is not effective. We need to learn from other nations around the world, as to what works in their educational systems, and help our children once again become world class.
hillsfarFeb 23, 2010
The problem with organizing in white collar business jobs is that there are millions of scabs who don't even know you're trying to organize.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2010
I'm with you.But I think a major hurdle would be getting people out of the fantasy land of "I'm poor now, but someday I'll be rich"...Everyone has been sold this fantasy since childhood.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2010
hell to the yes