Worker Bees

If we allow companies to be free to send jobs overseas and do what they "legally" can do so that they turn a profit, we see the down side of this to people here in our country. We're founded on this "idea" of freedom, but freedom to me does not mean that it's acceptable to hurt our citizens so that a business can grow. A person's life and livelihood should not be excised from a company's bottom line.

I've read a couple of online articles from yahoo.com & cnn.com where we have a higher unemployment rate right now but also have more jobs available. Huh? Explain this one to me. Maybe it's as simple as trying to apply for a job internally at Verizon Wireless. So many of my colleagues apply for positions but either never hear back on it or months go by before anything is done. It seems that there should be a simple, HR industry standard on receiving a resume, logging it, responding to the applicant and then proceeding with setting up interviews and once a candidate is selected for notifying the others that the position is closed. Definitely some companies are better than others on this, but it's way too erratic.

I've long held the belief that our Capitalist mentality is going to be our undoing. On the one hand it fosters competition and innovation, but on the other it is a breeding ground for greed and corruption. We have had periods in our global history of "enlightenment" where ideas and people grew without the dog eat dog mentality of companies.

Alas, companies are made of people. People are the ones with the seeds of greed and corruption within them. We have all these jobs available, but as the population expands, fewer and fewer people have "specialized knowledge" and the haves vs. the have nots grows. In observing the people I've worked with in corporations over the last decade, it's obvious to me that the majority of people do their job to make money---not for the love or passion of it. It is a means to an end.

On that thought... I'll end this rant.