Companies do have to compete for good workers. Yes, there is an abundance of “warm bodies”. The point is to be better than the mass of warm bodies so companies will compete for you.
Good idea in theory.
the health and wealth line postulates that if you believe you will get things handed to you. Some will sit around and wait for a better opportunity to be handed to them. Successful people will make those opportunities.
Some people also like pie. But all of those that don’t succeed didn’t necessarily just "sit around, and not all of those who do succeed really put that much effort into it. There’s a lot more that goes into it, and a good deal of it has nothing to do with initiative, intelligence, or hard work. All of those qualities can help, but they do not by themselves really assure anything.
Your right effort alone is not sufficient. I could work my but off trying to be an artist or athlete and will continually fail. In such pursuits, I should not be compensated for my effort. However I have found a line of work where I can be successful and am pursuing that. Effort is not merely showing up for eight hours and doing what you are told. It is also working after hours to better yourself and to prepare for better opportunities.
Well I really wasn’t talking about doing work you’re not qualified for. Obviously you shouldn’t expect to be paid for what you can’t do. I speaking to the rather common managerial mistake of not paying attention to where effort is occurring and where its not, and its unwillingness to put effort into managing.
When you buy an import you are reducing your wages.
Yes, but I’d rather send money to a company with better corporate policies. But I do try to stay local. Also, I’d rather support a foreign company that actually hires American workers than an American company that won’t. The American company that won’t deserves to fail.
Companies have to cut costs to compete with other companies. If they don’t, they can not get investments and can not raise the revenues they need to operate. Do you want your 401 K invested in a fund that does not make a profit?
Yes, they’ve all crawled into the cesspool together that’s true. It would take regulation to pull them back. We’ve led the industrialized world down a primrose path. I’m afraid it won’t be to long before the chickens come home to roost.
If someone in China is thrilled making $5 per day and outworks an American, how can you blame the company from taking that job away from an American who makes $75 a day, puts in a minimal effort, and complains about it?
First of all, while a sweat shop worker may work more hours than an American, there is a great distance between that and “outworking”. Japan for years refused to follow our lead in making their premium automobiles, for the very fact that it was their belief that if you wanted quality you had use only Japanese, American, and Canadian workers. They were right.
I’m sorry that you seem to have such a low opinion of the American worker. You’d probably be surprised to hear that Americans have a reputation for over working abroad. Does it really set well with you to watch consumer dollars leave the country, and Chinese workers not paid a just wage? How about the fact that those dollars are helping to build the infrastructure of the world’s most powerful “leftist” nation, whose policies are often directly opposed to those of the West? All of that is cool, as long as the company gets to improve its profit margin?
to clarify when I said “are still working for me in this same job after three years there is something wrong.” I meant if they didn’t get promoted. I am loyal to my employees and keep in touch with most of them. For them, the greatest reward I could have given them was the opportunity to excel. They took advantage of that opportunity.
If everyone was able to go on to the careers they wanted then that’s great.
Major Job Objectives. Basically a point based system for determining an individual worker’s contributions over a given year. Different companies, and managers use the concept in different ways. But you get the idea.
Within a pay grade there are usually brackets of salary. The point is to get into better job classifications and higher pay grades.
Well it is true that one has to change jobs to get different pay, benefits or privileges. However, some people enter into a position they enjoy and excel at. They shouldn’t be punished for that. Why should someone go into management when they enjoy working, creating, and problem solving? Of course that is admittedly a subject thing, but honestly its silly to have to move out a position where you make a difference just so you can get paid more.
It seems like you have lost hope. That is one of my biggest frustration with the leftist activist, they go around convincing people that they don’t have any hope and if they want a better life their only option is to vote for leftist politicians. I have seen to many cases of people with the skills, talent, and ability who squander it because they have been convinced they do not have opportunity.
No, I just have open eyes when I’m in the work place. I have a good job, and honestly my current direct mangers are pretty good. Heck my director is actually pretty darn bright, which is something totally new to me. So no I could be doing a lot worse and I know it. I also have a senior position with one of the two largest Hospital companies in the nation Having started out working on a truck farm, I have a pretty good sense for just what opportunities I have had. And I thank God for them. However, I do not think that my success is because I’m so great. I’ve had some opportunities that others haven’t. There are better men than me doing a lot worse. Its them I feel for. Just because things are going good for me doesn’t mean I’m entitled. The Corporate culture in this country is strangling it. One doesn’t have to be “leftist” or on the “right” to figure that out.
