Local News Commentary: "That's Great, What but what about the rest of us?"

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December 4, 2007 at 16:29:34

Local News Commentary: "That's Great, What but what about the rest of us?"

by Chuck Adkins Page 1 of 1 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

Here's an interesting headline from the local paper:

Survey: There'll be more finance jobs in '08 in metro Detroit

Hiring of full-time accounting and finance professionals in the Detroit area is expected to increase in the first quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index.

Nine percent of chief financial officers surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 7% anticipate reductions in personnel. - Read the rest

While I think that it is absolutely great that there are more jobs being added in this area. I have to ask the question, that is most likely being asked by many people who live in the Detroit Area. The question is, "What about the rest of us?"

Let me remind the author of this story and everyone that happens to read it that not everyone in the Detroit area has a degree in finance or in money management. Some of us in this economically depressed area, do not have college degrees, nor do we have an interest in obtaining said degrees in finance. I will be as obtuse about this, as I possibly can. I do well managing my own money. I have no interest in managing others money for them.

Again, continuing in the vein of the obtuse, If Detroit is going to be able to recover from the economic depression that we are in, we need to get some jobs here, real jobs. Jobs that people like myself can do, Good paying labor jobs. What needs to happen, not only in Detroit, but in Washington D.C., is that Congress needs to look into giving incentives to the Automotive companies to hire new people. Instead of calling workers in from other Countries or Other States, Ask the Automotive companies to start hiring from within Families.

Congress also needs to tell these said companies not to subject those who are being hired, to unreasonable tests for employment. I have personal experience in this area. Does it make any sense to require a person, who is putting a fender on a car, to take a math test? Quite frankly, that sort of nonsense demonstrates to me, the blatant incompetence of those in the human resource industry. ISO 9000 my royal behind, that's not quality standards, that is purposely limiting those from a particular industry. Which very much smacks of purposeful discrimination against those who are not of a certain educational background.

The Automotive industry needs to test people according to their abilities to perform a job, not according to the level of their formal education. This points to a culture of Elitism in this country, which is fostered by the Conservative Republicans. It is too bad, that we haven't broken that awful cycle. For many years in America, many jobs were obtainable without having a college degree, why has this changed? Because of the industrial corporate elitists in America, who want to keep a particular class of people under control.

I truly hope, that one day, this cycle of culture of corporate cronyism, elitism, and outright discrimination against those who are not of a college educated background will someday stop, and we get back to simplicity of the 1950's in America.

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Conservative prolife anti-death penalty tree hugger. Believe that less government is good government, government cannot solve anyone's personal problems, the government taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people is a crime, and that people should take responsibility for their own lives.
Mad JayhawkConservative prolife anti-death penalty tree hugger. Believe that less government is good government, government cannot solve anyone's personal problems, the government taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people is a crime, and that people should take responsibility for their own lives.

Education

When I have toured automobile plants I have always been impressed by the amount of automation they use to put a car together. If they went back to assembling cars one bolt at a time, applied by a union member making $60,000 a year the US car business would be totally out of business in 5 years, buried by their automated competitors.

Lets assume we are not going back to old, inefficient manufacturing methods. The new methods would seem to require a higher level of training to do than the old methods. To be trained, that is understand methods and techniques, safety, and all the other things related to a job in a modern factory requires a certain level of intelligence. It is hard to hire intelligent people because sometimes it isn't really obvious so companies use standards like education levels and/or tests.

When I hired people, I didn't care about experience or educational levels, I hired Smart. To determine whether someone was smart or not I had a series of questions that I asked to determine if they were smart. I could train Smart to do what I wanted done how I wanted it done. Dumb would be nothing but problems for me and my team and for the personal him/herself. Unfair? To whom? Me? I was being paid and rated on whether I got the job done. Hiring Dumb wouldn't help me at all. Would hiring dumb help my other employees? Heck no, they would hate the person because they would have to carry them. And the dumb employee would not be happy either unless tremendous unfair concessions were made to accomodate them. They would not get along with fellow employees, get poor job reviews, and not have any job satisfaction. Why do all this by hiring Dumb in the first place? To satisfy some idiot in a government job who does not have a clue about the job, the people involved, or reality. Dumb can be a PhD or a grade school grad and visa-versa. Some of the biggest Dumbs I know are called Dr.

If someone wants better jobs THEY have to take the responsiblity to get a better education. If you want your kids to have better jobs then you, YOU, have to take responsibility to make sure that the public or private school they go to is educating them. If they are not then YOU have some choices to make - change schools, move to another district, or home school. One of the choices is not to bitch and moan about it on the internet. I went to school 6 years. 2 years of graduate school at night when we had 2 small kids. It was hard and it paid off. Big time. I paid for it all myself with loans and working. Anyone can do it if they want to. I know a lot of people of all kinds who have done it. YOU have to do it.

by Mad Jayhawk (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 205 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 9:25:03 PM