Is your company taking advantage of a poor job market....

[Basecore Boy]

I feel like I'm doing 5 employees jobs.

When the job market turns around. They are gonna lose the good workers.

What do you think?

[Sharp Eye Washington]

I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out.

[JoeB]

Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out. has anybody read up on major corporations moving their business to foreign lands like india and PI?

[Basecore Boy]

We need to talk to our representative about this bull.

[Sharp Eye Washington]

Originally posted by JoeB:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out. has anybody read up on major corporations moving their business to foreign lands like india and PI? </font>[/QUOTE]I'm trying to be positive Joe. I know they are going to through my ass out!

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[liL Ray]

this could turn out to be the Basecore's best post yet....good topic...let's hear it.

[JoeB]

tell me about it, phil. i work for verizon, the data services assurance center(NOC), and we have been hearing about verizon already moving some jobs to PI and i read a quick article about another company moving their services to india to take advantage of the cheap labor. when i think about how greedy some of these corporations are i get this sick feeling in my stomach and it ****ing scares the crap out of me that my job might be next. mad1.gif

[Ronnie Ron]

They are also taking advantage by hiring Temp workers so they dont have to pay for the benefits I know im a victim of the Temp worker syndrome, its work but i would much rather have a full time job and know im gonna be working every week.... mad1.gif

[Gojay]

Working for Lawyers really sucks. They know how to screw you legally!

peace,
gojay

[Leslie]

I think it depends upon what industry you are in and even to that extent what niche your job is or is not filling. This crappo economy gave companies license to clean house of dead weight in addition to just reducing numbers overall. So while you may be doing the job of 5 (which sucks no doubt) be thankful you were not seen as being either dead weight or non-essential. So while this too shall pass - it may be that when all is said and done you've increased your skills and causes your next job to pay you that much more.

I am not singing the company song, cause there is many a day when this place can kiss my black ass, but I am glad that I have not been seriously adversly affected by this market and knew enough to reinvent myself when the business they brought me in to do dried up after 9/11. Sometimes you just gotta suck it up and remember when the market picks up - which it will - you can be out with more money and on to other things. Too many people are unable to reinvent themselves and that where they get screwed.

[Sharp Eye Washington]

My department is filling positions through temp agencies. We haven't hired a full time employee in over 1 year. Shit is scary up in here.

[richierich]

Well..I don't know about other industries but PROSTITUTION is still booming!

[JoeB]

does anybody know more about the bush sponsored "overtime bill"?

here is what i got from the congress.org website:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billnum=H.R.1119&congress=108&size=full

i wish i had some good links to break down for those of us that don't understand all the mumbo jumbo that these bills have.

[ July 31, 2003, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: JoeB ]

[Ronnie Ron]

Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
My department is filling positions through temp agencies. We haven't hired a full time employee in over 1 year. Shit is scary up in here. Preach!!

R-R

[jcapeverde]

Originally posted by JoeB:
does anybody know more about the bush sponsored "overtime bill"?

here is what i got from the congress.org website:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billnum=H.R.1119&congress=108&size=full

i wish i had some good links to break down for those of us that don't understand all the mumbo jumbo that these bills have. Yeah, basically what they want to do is allow businesses to give you comp time in place of time and a half cash. Then the businesses won't allow you to use your comp time. This is already in place now where I work in Civil Service in Nassau County,NY. While we still have the option of cash or comp, they only allow use in quarter day slots. I had an hour and change of comp time left at the end of the year, but lost it because I wasn't allowed to use it! I was never informed or aware until my time & leave statement came and I questioned the loss!

[jcapeverde]

We also are under the threat of layoffs come Sept. 1st. Our new contract that was ratified is deemed too generous. We must work 15 min. more a day & all we're getting is a 2.5% raise once and then COLA increases. Cops out here make 100G's a year & are fighting tooth and nail not to give back anything. They go to arbitration, which we can't, and the County is beholden to abide by whatever the arbitrator gives them. That's why some officers make more than the County Executive with overtime factored in. The outgoing Commissioner left with a half mil compensation parachute & several top brass came close to that. In addition, we lost many experienced workers when buyouts were offered last year. Added credit was given according to your years of service. We that are left are literally doing the work of 5 people. Letters were sent out informing homeowners of arrears in tax payments last week. People were lined up to the elevators waiting for help today and several phones had to go unanswered because they're aren't enough workers here anymore.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

This era reminds me of the Regan era. Employers / supervisors never failed to stress "There are 25 people in line for your job". During the Regan era any job was considered a good one (to strech (s/p) the truth a bit).

[Keith Blackstone]

Originally posted by Leslie:
kiss my black ass... Is there some kinda sign-up sheet, ticket number or line for this? biggrinangel.gif

[The Donger]

Originally posted by Basecore Boy:
I feel like I'm doing 5 employees jobs.

When the job market turns around. They are gonna lose the good workers.

What do you think? I am doing 5 jobs.

I think I am going to "go postal" soon!

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[NubianSista]

Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out. http://deephousepage.com/smilies/scratchchin.gif
Hmmm! Let's see; Rent, care note, insurance, credit cards, food...Sh*t, I'm with ya on that pal.

[NubianSista]

Originally posted by Leslie:
I think it depends upon what industry you are in and even to that extent what niche your job is or is not filling. This crappo economy gave companies license to clean house of dead weight in addition to just reducing numbers overall. So while you may be doing the job of 5 (which sucks no doubt) be thankful you were not seen as being either dead weight or non-essential. So while this too shall pass - it may be that when all is said and done you've increased your skills and causes your next job to pay you that much more.

I am not singing the company song, cause there is many a day when this place can kiss my black ass, but I am glad that I have not been seriously adversly affected by this market and knew enough to reinvent myself when the business they brought me in to do dried up after 9/11. Sometimes you just gotta suck it up and remember when the market picks up - which it will - you can be out with more money and on to other things. Too many people are unable to reinvent themselves and that where they get screwed. I will keep this in mind biggrinangel.gif

[Huey P. Freeman]

Originally posted by Nubiansista:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out. http://deephousepage.com/smilies/scratchchin.gif

Hmmm! Let's see; Rent, care note, insurance, credit cards, food...Sh*t, I'm with ya on that pal. </font>[/QUOTE]What is a "care note"? graemlins/rofl.gif

[Dj Pat]

Originally posted by Basecore Boy:
I feel like I'm doing 5 employees jobs.

When the job market turns around. They are gonna lose the good workers.

What do you think? It's going to be like this for a while now.
A lot of comapny's are looking into there P&L ( profit and lost) and if the company can get around from losing stock value, etc. they will lay off to reduce there payroll and assighn other job's to the employees they keep.
The 2 major bad thing's about this is that the employee is over-work and 2, there isnt a pay increase with other duty's.
Dj Pat
Physical Heat

[Dj Pat]

Originally posted by LEONARD REMIX RROY:
This era reminds me of the Regan era. Employers / supervisors never failed to stress "There are 25 people in line for your job". During the Regan era any job was considered a good one (to strech (s/p) the truth a bit). Hey roy, the only thing the regan era did for me was introduce crack in my neighborhood, so sad, so true!
And to think there is people out there who worship's his ass?!?!?!
Dj Pat
Physical Heat.

[jsd540]

Originally posted by JoeB:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Phil Bernard:
I don't plan on leaving my cushy ass job unless they through my ass out. has anybody read up on major corporations moving their business to foreign lands like india and PI? </font>[/QUOTE]My co. outsourced it's tech support phone lines to india about a year ago. There are only 2 or 3 people left to travel between 2 ny offices and 1 jesey office. graemlins/jpshakehead.gif