Ok—who remembers when if you did not get a particular job you got another one? When it did not seem as though your very life depended on getting the one you are interviewing for?
Me.
Me.
Who remembers when debt did not make your decisions for you? When you could purchase “affordable housing” with a minimum wage job, at 24?
Me.
Well the others who remember seem to forget to say anything. Now people are giving the passwords to their social network sites to employers—and the writer of this article pretends this is truly voluntary. http://www.suntimes.com/business/11416671-420/job-seekers-getting-asked-for-facebook-passwords.html
Well the others who remember seem to forget to say anything. Now people are giving the passwords to their social network sites to employers—and the writer of this article pretends this is truly voluntary. http://www.suntimes.com/business/11416671-420/job-seekers-getting-asked-for-facebook-passwords.html
A big fat fib—and I am sick of it. (It is also unclear if this is before or after an offer has been made-which is a significant difference in the legal world. More disinformation.)
“Chief Deputy Rusty Thomas defended the practice, saying applicants have a right to refuse. But no one has ever done so. Thomas said that “speaks well of the people we have apply.” Yeah right. The people who NEED THAT EFFING JOB!!!
Another example- the WSJ runs an article saying government numbers on the housing market are inaccurate. (Which we all know they re as banks sure NOT going to tell us how many homes eh own with no performing loans. It’s called bikini accounting. Is the house an asset? Or is it a liability? In either case what is the value of the asset??????? WTF? The agency in charge blames its budget.
Ditto expert numbers on gasoline usage-which are sued to make forecasts and other useful things.http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/02/11/does-falling-us-gas-consumption-signal-a-new-recession/
Then, too, there is yet anther article in the Huff post on how bad the need is for better treatment for veterans. Also in the Army Times. (True enough. But from where shall we get these much needed funds?)
No one is connecting up the dots. Oh-and you heard it here first-- there is a HUGE asset out there called “us.” Crowd sourcing could be used to collect data, if not to analyze it. People with skills and abilities and time could be matched up to real slots with work they love to do—from anywhere.
No one says this. Not any of it. No one mentions that government departments (like the Air Force, where I witnessed this) which near the end of their fiscal years go on spending sprees to use up what was budgeted so they will not see that budget cut the next year. They will buy anything. And they do. (And them some important funds for, say, education get the ax.)
No one even asks "how much fossil fuel does it really cost to run an electric car?” (Most power plants run on coal. It’s still a fossil fuel.) We just pretend the "electric car" is "the answer" to too much smog, too many petro-wars, rising prices, less work. The answer to any problem. it's not. Walking? that's a solution-- to gas prices and obesity and isolation... electrical cars just shift the load to a coal plant in another state. We can do better. And we will be forced to.
No one is connecting up the dots. Oh-and you heard it here first-- there is a HUGE asset out there called “us.” Crowd sourcing could be used to collect data, if not to analyze it. People with skills and abilities and time could be matched up to real slots with work they love to do—from anywhere.
No one says this. Not any of it. No one mentions that government departments (like the Air Force, where I witnessed this) which near the end of their fiscal years go on spending sprees to use up what was budgeted so they will not see that budget cut the next year. They will buy anything. And they do. (And them some important funds for, say, education get the ax.)
No one even asks "how much fossil fuel does it really cost to run an electric car?” (Most power plants run on coal. It’s still a fossil fuel.) We just pretend the "electric car" is "the answer" to too much smog, too many petro-wars, rising prices, less work. The answer to any problem. it's not. Walking? that's a solution-- to gas prices and obesity and isolation... electrical cars just shift the load to a coal plant in another state. We can do better. And we will be forced to.
So many unasked questions—so many phony reports. So much baloney. Happy cows who live in California. (In vile feedlots.) Does anyone else think about how truly insane this is? And instead of solutions we see name-calling and draconian costs to the folks who can do nothing and probably don’t vote... made by those who have enough to live for the rest of their lives in unearned income or their power and influence.
I think it’s time to tell the truth. We suck at solutions. We suck at seeing the problems. or the folks pulling our strings do.
Do-over? I think so.
I think it’s time to tell the truth. We suck at solutions. We suck at seeing the problems. or the folks pulling our strings do.
Do-over? I think so.
Awesome and Excellent! Points right on the money! I am much like you - and get so frustrated when a spade(or coal) is called a diamond! I am afraid we are past the 'tipping point' - as all i see is corruption and greed - instead of united we stand - it's become every man for himself - which means keeping your neighbor DOWN! I am so glad i won't be economically 'raped' by employers who ask for my passwords - or whether or not i take contraceptives - or what my religious affiliations are...AGAIN! I guess backwards is the new forwards? Again - great post!
ReplyDeleteThanks Leslie. We are past the tipping point-- but there is a new organization arising from the disorganization of systems which no longer serve us. This will not be in the media.
ReplyDeleteWe still have a lot of work to do to make the new system love and breathe--the new system will be solution based and a bottom up scenario.
No longer can we look to a paternal "them" to fix "the economy." Which is so flawed anyhow.
It is up to US. (It occurs to me that the paternalism is showing up in this obsession with controlling women's behavior...) Like Hitler's trains to Auschwitz this may bring ab t the downfall of the paternalists. A rich irony.