The working incompetents and how to contend with them..
Throughout this wonderful adventure called unemployment I have tried to figure out how so many incompetent people have been able to keep their jobs while those with skill and ability are left to fight for scraps.
A simple example of the arrogant and incompetence found just today. Emailed by a company about a position that I have done for 15 plus years. Easy enough to do no matter what industry. So I am told not by anyone that can make a decision or negotiate anything but by a position just slightly above a secretary that even though the company I would be considered an employee for would not offer benefits of any type that oh a steady below average rate for the position should be acceptable and yes I should still pay for my own benefits. So since this no nothing person wanted to fight the issue I threw back the argument of why would I want to work for them long term if I was to be considered less than adequate to provide or give the availability of benefits. Why should I take their job, making far less than before knowing their margins and costs and not be able to receive a pay raise either all the while having to provide my own benefits. Well she couldn’t understand how I would not want plausible uncertainty with little verifiable absoluteness compared to a current state of affairs.
I guess I am just to honest. Knowing the economic situation out there and the job they claimed was theirs was just like telling me they could catch a fart in the wind. To not know my background and to doubt my understanding of what they were trying to do was just as much of an insult as being spit in the face. Indirectly it was being spit in the face by the incompetence of this person. Thus I gave them the reasons I knew what I wanted and they gave me nothing in response. Companies like that are destroying this country as much as the offshoring companies who are now so much into the temping business.
There actually is a simple solution to this. Revoke all work visas and send everyone home. The jobs can be filled by Americans and done well. Cut costs by sending the work overseas or by bringing in H1B workers just continues to destroy this country and kill our own industries from inside. This has also brought the American based companies down to the level of those other companies trying to compete and reduced the standards of living in this country.
To fight this issue tell me how I am wrong and we will go from there. Until an argument has substance don’t bother me.
