By: Heywood Jablome

Heywood Jablome — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:05:29 +0000

CEOs… what do they know besides outsourcing jobs and stealing from widows & orphans. America is in the sad state it’s in BECAUSE of the CEOs. Sendin jobs offshore just to save a shekel. Now we find these “low cost” areas have labor retention probelms. I work for an “American” cell phone manufacturer. LG & Samsung are more American. Now we find that engineers in Poland just got a 30% merit increase and we can’t keep anyone in Penang, Malaysia. We’re not keeping up with the increasing labor rate in these “low cost” areas. Meanwhile our company NEEDS 350 portly, overcompensated Vice Presidents. Lord knows what they do. In my department we have 1 manager for every engineer. Functional manager, Program managers, technical managers… their bosses, the bosses’ bosses. I have 7 layers of managers above me. THAT’s what wrong with American companies, let the managers need to lay someone off, you can’t expect a manager at the Circle M to lay himself off. Who would kiss the boss’ boss’ boss ( O )

By: 6ftrabbit

6ftrabbit — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:24:41 +0000

Yeah well, life’s a beach and then you die.

By: Gary Driscoll

Gary Driscoll — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:50:13 +0000

Since you are still optimistic that we are at the bottom, it is quite clear that we have a lot of down in front of us.

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