Can't find a job? Here's why.

..... hire 2 people at low salaries to do the work of that one senior person.

There is a hospital here that freezes the salary of RNs when they reach 20 years of service.

Angeline
Speakeasy Moderator

2 half price employees cost more that 1

Health insurance? Nope.

Matching funds for retirement? Nope.

If you are lucky enough to get a job that does give benefits then they are greatly reduced from what the same job would have given even 10 years ago.

People need to make themselves valuable enough to warrant such benefits.

That's the kind of statement I'd expect from the fellow on the video.

was to show how to get people who are valuable, but don't have to be paid benefits...

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The US Work Force as a whole - by the numbers - is one of the most efficient and productive work forces to have ever existed. US industry enjoys some of the largest profit margins in the world... because of the US work force.

Do you deny this DM?


Now how much more valuable does one have to be?

Several years ago there was a survey among employees re: their subjective opinions of their job performance. The vast majority thought they were doing a fantastic job. I think anybody who has spent time in the work force knows better. There always has seemed to be a segment that depends on the other workers to hold them up, that are unreliable, who cause dissent among their co-workers, and miss deadlines.

But more recently, for instance, the school system here has been able in spite of the "tenure" bit, to set up standards for accountability, which are more objective than subjective.

In general it looks like few people (excepting those successfully self employed or independently wealthy) are free from being subject to losing their positions regardless of their exceptional work performance and high value to their employers.

Angeline
Speakeasy Moderator

Companies are always cutting benefits becsuae they say that they are not in a level playing field with foreign companies that don't have to pay health benefits because the government takes care of that.

Diana

US companies have reached a point of productivity and efficiency where the only place left to squeeze more profits out of the business is to streamline work force costs. They save money by cutting worker's benefits and salaries. When they can't do that anymore, they eliminate their US locations and outsource the jobs to other countries.

Now... with transportation costs going up... they want to bring production back into the US and produce goods using Guest Workers who will work at a fraction of the cost of US workers.