jeepgirl writes:
> Please be thankful you have jobs.
This is exactly the kind of mentality that the CEOs of corporate America
would love to return to: ala the workforce of the 1990 recession, happy just
to have a job, willing to take pay cuts along with more work hours, and say
"thank you" and the end of the grueling soul-destroying day.
I say "No, thank you", I don't want that, I refuse to take that attitude. I
am doing my employer a favor by working for them, not the other way around.
Unlike the barely skilled autoworker, I went to college for 15 years in
order to have a career that would remain fruitful and enjoyable. While the
money is still present, the enjoyment here is going. All my hard work
educating myself to be productive should get me more respect than it does
around this place.
BTW, the hand-writing has been on the wall for some years now regarding
barely skilled workers like autoworkers - their labor rates are too high
compared to most of the rest of the world, and downsizing (and outsourcing)
is then a natural course of events. One can thank the UAW for making this
type of labor so expensive. Why should some unskilled worker in Detroit
earn more than a high tech worker with advanced degrees and capabilities an
auto worker can't even dream of acquiring? It just doesn't make any logical
sense.
Cheers,
Gerald
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