This Yahoo article is one of the best non-partisan reviews of the last decade of economic failure. The take-away point is that investors are sheep that will follow whatever cookie crumbs are left hoping to find a pot of gold at the end; the ones leaving the crumbs are corporate gangsters who know the crumbs are the small leftovers of a meal already finished. Intuitively we all know this, but apparently someone spiked the kool-aid because how quickly we forget what we "learned".
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Showing posts with label employees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employees. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
It May Hurt But It's The Truth
Roland Martin is defending President Obama because he used the word "lazy" in context of discussing American work and employees. I have no problem because it is the truth even if it is politically incorrect.
For the past 35 years or so, we have been accepting the 800 lb pink elephant in the room because no one wanted to move his fat butt. So if we now find ourselves disgusted with his foul smell, unfortunate waste, and rude stares from others, it's clearly our fault.
Stop promoting unlearned students, stop hiring/keeping people that aren't good at their jobs, stop giving bonuses to executives simply because their employees are good, and stop with the political correctness - use our English language to be perfectly clear!
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Trenches Are Really All The Same
Indiana Senator Tim Skinner and his wife, both teachers, are leaving their profession due to legislative changes. Although the Great Debate is the constitutionality of vouchers for private religious schools, the underlying debate is the professionalism of teaching and the functioning of public education.
No one should deny the fact that "bad" teachers exist; there are "bad" ____ in every field. But no one should also imply that just because some are public educators that they are hard to fire, in fact, it's very simple...rather it's very easy to move them around, encourage resignation/retirement, or hide their incompetencies, just like any other field. (Actually how many principals are fired for being "bad" at their job? Good statistic to try to find ;) Yet, it's blasphemous to compare teaching to "normal" careers, isn't it?
Being an educator has become a circus job: you need stamina to endure the grind, practice year-around to stay agile, and you have to jump a lot of hoops...and hoops...and hoops.
The Skinners point out that older, experienced teachers are in much better positions that the upcoming troops, whose concept of education will definitely take on a different perspective and set of expectations than their ancestors. I'm all for reforming education (it clearly doesn't function properly now), making more schools and teachers available everywhere, competing for students to attend a fitting school for their skills, etc. But we can not keep attacking the people in the trenches or one day we will find those trenches empty.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Hire Questions
Yesterday Yahoo Financial posted an article reviewing illegal hiring questions. If one were to read the comments, you would think this article was joking.
Let it be known that employers do ask these questions, if not flat out, and they definitely skirt around to get the answers they are looking for: your age can be found from any "government id document" or background check or resume educational information; same goes for your race. If you are one of the throw-caution-to-the-wind people, your Facebook profile is a landmine of information waiting to be tipped. If you should happen to snag an interview while visibly pregnant, well, enough said.
While I consider myself a professional applicant (I estimate I have applied to over 600 jobs in the last five years) and fully aware of what is legal, I have been forced to answer every one of these questions in some fashion. I can not count the times I've stated my graduation year, marital status, citizenship, race, and whether I need disability accommodations to perform on applications. Later in interviews, I have had to carefully avoid discussions about religious influences, family plans, and be willing to submit to drugs tests at any time.
Perhaps the next time one fills out an application, they get creative with their answers. Want to calculate my age? Too bad, I'm only listing my degree and school, not year. I never complete the Mrs, Miss, Ms or Mr category (oh, how many interviews have been waylaid by one assuming my gender in the first place and promptly being disappointed - yet another illegal hiring move for another blog!). All other categories are off limits and frankly unrelated to just about every job.
I will, however, prove my citizenship status because that is the only thing left going for me in today's employment climate.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Video Resumes
I recently made the analogy that trying to find a teaching job, or any job for that matter these days, is rife with rejection and if I was going to face so much rejection, I rather be an actress because the payoff is much more substantial. I know there are billions of paper resumes out there that have never seen the light of day.
And why should they? No one is reading them.
But like all dying practices, survival is dependent on adaptiveness. That phenomenon has reached the unemployed. CBS aired a segment over TWO YEARS ago about video resumes. If you search "resume" on You Tube, you received about 37,000 results; on Yahoo, 379,000,000. And there are STILL some businesses that require a 1-2 page printed application with resume attachment optional.
So here's the issue: are employers going to see this as a faster, more authentic way to screen potential workers and thus embrace it, or are employees, given the economic plumment, force this method on employers to break out of the paper-pack?
I smell a new type of worker revolution brewing....and it smells like Flash!
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