Higher productivity cuts jobs now, pays off in long term (loans, sell)

[Wonderful Jellal]

Tellers, customer-service representatives and new account salespeople aren't chained to their stations. Tellers frequently hop out to help a customer open an account or reconcile a statement. New account and customer-service representatives dash behind windows when the teller line lengthens.
The free-flowing system allowed Anderen to eliminate six full-time positions when loan volumes plummeted in the recession, staffing each branch with just four front-line employees. Loans and deposits rebounded some in 2010, but Anderen has no plans to return to its old ways even if business surges.


Higher productivity cuts jobs now, pays off in long term - USATODAY.com

[Themanwithnoname]

Annnd I take my money elsewhere when I have to wait for someone ot open an account before I can cash or deposit my check!

[ambient]

Welcome to the new normal in America and the Western world. Cheap **** is all manufactured in China. Services are all outsourced to India. What's left will be done by robots. If you're not lucky enough to be one of the billionaire capitalists, you can go hang yourself.

[Willy702]

Originally Posted by ambient

Welcome to the new normal in America and the Western world. Cheap **** is all manufactured in China. Services are all outsourced to India. What's left will be done by robots. If you're not lucky enough to be one of the billionaire capitalists, you can go hang yourself.

How can you manufacture cheap anything in the US? If it had to be made in the US, it wouldn't be made.

Call me crazy, but I am quite happy my employment prospects aren't only in manufacturing jobs. I feel sorry for people in India and the Philippines who go to college for 4 years and get a shiny degree and whose great luck is they can now get a career job answering calls from the US asking why their cheap products don't work.

Is that really what you want for the US economy?

[Themanwithnoname]

Originally Posted by Willy702

How can you manufacture cheap anything in the US? If it had to be made in the US, it wouldn't be made.

Call me crazy, but I am quite happy my employment prospects aren't only in manufacturing jobs. I feel sorry for people in India and the Philippines who go to college for 4 years and get a shiny degree and whose great luck is they can now get a career job answering calls from the US asking why their cheap products don't work.

Is that really what you want for the US economy?

In my 'former life' I came into contact with the owner of a well known holster maker.

He told me (We were on friendly terms) that (I'm making up numbers, but they are close)

He could have a holster made here:
$17.50

And sell it for $22

OR have it made overseas, and WITH shipping, it would cost him $3.50

GO US 'Rah, Rah, Rah....' but a profit span of $14....

Easy decision!

-Now, they still make em in the US, but the US Gov't contracts require US made...
Don't make many of them though.