Great article on why the economy is in trouble.

[Woodznutz]

My conclusion is that it is a combination of laziness and greed.

MSN

 

[1srelluc]

They answered their own question.

If telecom companies want to fix this, they need to invest in employee development, highlight career growth opportunities, and create work environments that keep top talent engaged for the long haul.

 

[Woodznutz]

They answered their own question.

If telecom companies want to fix this, they need to invest in employee development, highlight career growth opportunities, and create work environments that keep top talent engaged for the long haul.

A common thread throughout the whole article.

 

[Dante]

My conclusion is that it is a combination of laziness and greed.

MSN

The challenge? A mix of rapid industry changes, high burnout rates, and a lack of long-term career planning for employees.

 

[Woodznutz]

The challenge? A mix of rapid industry changes, high burnout rates, and a lack of long-term career planning for employees.

Rapid industry changes is the main culprit. Brainiacs create high-tech industries but can't find enough brainiac employees to work for them. We're basically outsmarting ourselves.

And ironically colleges seek to churn out highly educated grads from among students that have no business taking up space in their classrooms.

 

[Dekster]

For $50K a year I'd sit in a fire tower and point "over there" to the fire crews. Maybe those conservation jobs are just too boring for some.

 

[1srelluc]

Rapid industry changes is the main culprit. Brainiacs create high-tech industries but can't find enough brainiac employees to work for them. We're basically outsmarting ourselves.

And ironically colleges seek to churn out highly educated grads from among students that have no business taking up space in their classrooms.

Indeed, much of that could be handled on the HS and Community college level.

The company bean counters are too damn stupid to allow it to happen and the BODs are too insulated from reality to notice what they are missing out on.

Back when my town was a "factory town" FMC recruited help thru the local HS and sponsored vocational classes to that end. A large percentage stayed till they retired.

 

[Woodznutz]

Indeed, much of that could be handled on the HS and Community college level.

The company bean counters are too damn stupid to allow it to happen and the BODs are too insulated from reality to notice what they are missing out on.

Back when my town was a "factory town" FMC recruited help thru the local HS and sponsored vocational classes to that end. A large percentage stayed till they retired.

We've priced ourselves out of our own economy.

 

[Blaster]

Nothing is wrong with the economy.

 

[bendog]

My conclusion is that it is a combination of laziness and greed.

MSN

We are at full employment. Perhaps we need to embrace foreigners with educations that fit our economy.

 

[evenflow1969]

For $50K a year I'd sit in a fire tower and point "over there" to the fire crews. Maybe those conservation jobs are just too boring for some.

You can be alone for months at a time at some of those sites. Most people can not deal with that. Would not bother me but I guess I am atypical in that respect.

 

[Woodznutz]

We are at full employment. Perhaps we need to embrace foreigners with educations that fit our economy.

We are at full underemployment.

Perhaps we need an economy that fits our education level seeing that we are unable to prepare our kids for the present high-tech economy.

 

[bendog]

We are at full underemployment.

Perhaps we need an economy that fits our education level seeing that we are unable to prepare our kids for the present high-tech economy.

we need a third world economy?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

They answered their own question.

If telecom companies want to fix this, they need to invest in employee development, highlight career growth opportunities, and create work environments that keep top talent engaged for the long haul.

The Minor Leagues Are Baseball's Equivalent of College Education

Too late. They need to give talented 18-year-olds what baseball gives them, a huge bonus up front to motivate them to develop their natural skills before they are hired.

Americans are so sado-masochistic about the Eweniversity. I met someone doing graduate work in Microbiology. She got $600 a week, plus free tuition. She said that she and another student were the only Americans out of fifteen in the program. She was too brainwashed to realize that it would all be Americans if they got $600 a week plus free tuition in undergraduate school.

Same ignorance from somebody who wrote a book complaining about unpaid internships and ones the intern had to actually pay the firm for. What really angered me about it was they were advised to take it out of their trust funds. But she wasn't upset about undergraduate being designed specifically for the RichKid Reich only.

The talented born in lower classes create all the wealth of that parasitic clique for them. Knowing that, the plutocracy brainwashes people to think that the talented needs to punished before they can deserve that reward.

 

[Woodznutz]

we need a third world economy?

We could take some lessons. They don't buy things that they can't afford, meanwhile we are $35Trillion in debt.

 

[Dekster]

You can be alone for months at a time at some of those sites. Most people can not deal with that. Would not bother me but I guess I am atypical in that respect.

A friend in college spent the summer counting ducks in the Dakotas. He could go a few weeks without any real meaningful interactions with humans other than at the gas station. His job was like go to pond A in the middle of nowhere and count all the female mallards between sunrise and sunset; camp out then drive to Lake B and count all the male woodducks.