Corporate America: Just Not Into You Anymore

[marmar]

from Working Life:



Corporate America: Just Not Into You Anymore

by Jonathan Tasini
Monday 20 of December, 2010


Let's face it. Companies don't care about you anymore:

Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor experts that temporary employees will become a larger, more entrenched part of the work force.

This is bad news for the nation’s workers, who are already facing one of the bleakest labor markets in recent history. Temporary employees generally receive fewer benefits or none at all, and have virtually no job security. It is harder for them to save. And it is much more difficult for them to develop a career arc while hopping from boss to boss.

Corporations pile up cash--and spend it only on executive bonuses. They slash workers--and don't expect to hire people back. And, apparently, they are just happy as heck to keep workers as temporary--the better to dispose of you.


http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15057

[hobbit709]

1. When did they ever?

[trotsky]

3. One might argue up until the 1950s-60s...

when the idea of working for one company for life, making a salary to support your entire family, and earning a gold watch and comfortable pension when you retired wasn't the laughable prospect it is today.

[Javaman]

7. But even then, much of not all of that won't have happened if it weren't for unions.

We peons are overhead to them and have always been.

[RedCloud]

10. When the military ran them in WWII, that's when.

US workers made so many jeeps that they had to dump a lot of them. Also planned obsolence probably meant the firing squad. Those cars ran for decades, that's when.

[rhett o rick]

12. Corporations are not human and have no morals. They have never "cared" for workers or even consumers

Their goal is to make a profit with out being prosecuted. They will push the regulations and laws to the limit. In the "good years", the American middle class had tons of money and corporations competed to get it. They competed to keep good workers. But in the last 30 years, regulations and laws have been relaxed and corporations can push the limits farther. Also, they can now steal money from the middle class w/o even producing a product via stock manipulations. Also, American corporations are not loyal to America now because they have international interests. It's not personal, it's just business.
"They dont want to kill us, they just dont care if we die".

[KurtNYC]

2. If they aren't into me then how come they tap my internet at work, make

me pee in a cup and want to know too much about my personal life.

Seems like they are obsessed with me. ;-)

[leveymg]

4. Looking for excuses to fire and replace you - as if they ever needed an excuse.

[Javaman]

11. Yup, we are all replacable and are replaced daily.

corporations: we crush whole lives.

[KansDem]

5. Time for a new political party: The Corporation Party

Here's their mascot:



I've thought about running for local office, maybe Kansas representative to Congress. My campaign slogan? "I'll do what I'm told to do!"

Let's just cut to the chase...why fool around with pretension?

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. Very good!

The campaign slogan is priceless!

Cheers!

[TBF]

8. Just not that into you - period. nt

[girl gone mad]

9. The feeling is mutual. n/t

[felix_numinous]

13. We are expendable

not worthy of healthy food, water, resources, homes, healthcare, bank accounts, jobs, or even the truth.

If they have so absolutely disowned us, then why don't we disown them????