Todays Globe and Mail had an interesting article about the growing mismatch between jobs and applicants — http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/jobs-disconnect-in-rims-hometown/article1359650/ . Just another instance of the ultimately destructive trends that have been seen elsewhere.
For starters, the article suggests that roughly 1/3rd of the people employed in manufacturing and processing have not finished high school. But the new [...]
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HR ruins everything
Posted in Current Events, Politics, errors, philosophy on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People and Jobs
Posted in Politics, ideas, philosophy on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that bothers me about the current economic crisis is what is going to happen with all the people who have been displaced by jobs that have ceased to exist or have been exported elsewhere?
At one time, the eager but (perhaps) undereducated could find work pumping gas or working on an assembly [...]
Relationships
Posted in errors, ideas, philosophy on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There seem to be (at least) two kinds of relationships in use. The one kind is the caring, sharing (rare) type that O`Henry wrote about in the ‘Gift of the Messiah’. Then there are the exploitive relationships — where one partner describes the other in terms of how much money they make (never enough) and [...]
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