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A recent article posted on gawker.com included the story of a 61-year-old woman who has been through hell and back during this economic downturn....
'I sent out close to 500 resumes. Most never were even acknowledged and those that were I was told I was over qualified.'
At one point she was so desperate she took a job where she was making the decision about what dogs to slaughter at an animal shelter. Approximately 85 percent of the dogs at the shelter ended up being killed, and she was working about 80 hours a week doing this. The really sad part is that she really loves dogs....
'I was the one that would be the decision maker on who lives and dies of over 10,000 animals per year and the toll mentally was hard. Being salary I was working nearly 80 hours a week due to shorthanded staff.'
After she was fired for not being aggressive enough in killing off dogs, she started endlessly sending out resumes once again. Nobody wants to hire her, and she essentially feels like an old lady begging for a job....
Personally Training Their Replacements
If you knew that your company was going to tear down your factory and send your job to China, would you personally train your replacement?
That is what a whole bunch of workers in Illinois are doing.
The following is from a recent article that appeared in the Guardian....
The shock of losing a precious job in a town afflicted by high unemployment is always hard. A foundation for a stable family life and secure home instantly disappears, replaced with a future filled with fears over health insurance, missed mortgage payments and the potential for a slip below the breadline.
But for Bonnie Borman – and 170 other men and women in Freeport, Illinois – there is a brutal twist to the torture. Borman, 52, and the other workers of a soon-to-be-shuttered car parts plant are personally training the Chinese workers who will replace them.
It's a surreal experience, they say. For months they have watched their plant being dismantled and shipped to China, piece by piece, as they show teams of Chinese workers how to do the jobs they have dedicated their lives to.
A recent article posted on gawker.com included the story of a 61-year-old woman who has been through hell and back during this economic downturn....
'I sent out close to 500 resumes. Most never were even acknowledged and those that were I was told I was over qualified.'
At one point she was so desperate she took a job where she was making the decision about what dogs to slaughter at an animal shelter. Approximately 85 percent of the dogs at the shelter ended up being killed, and she was working about 80 hours a week doing this. The really sad part is that she really loves dogs....
'I was the one that would be the decision maker on who lives and dies of over 10,000 animals per year and the toll mentally was hard. Being salary I was working nearly 80 hours a week due to shorthanded staff.'
After she was fired for not being aggressive enough in killing off dogs, she started endlessly sending out resumes once again. Nobody wants to hire her, and she essentially feels like an old lady begging for a job....
Personally Training Their Replacements
If you knew that your company was going to tear down your factory and send your job to China, would you personally train your replacement?
That is what a whole bunch of workers in Illinois are doing.
The following is from a recent article that appeared in the Guardian....
The shock of losing a precious job in a town afflicted by high unemployment is always hard. A foundation for a stable family life and secure home instantly disappears, replaced with a future filled with fears over health insurance, missed mortgage payments and the potential for a slip below the breadline.
But for Bonnie Borman – and 170 other men and women in Freeport, Illinois – there is a brutal twist to the torture. Borman, 52, and the other workers of a soon-to-be-shuttered car parts plant are personally training the Chinese workers who will replace them.
It's a surreal experience, they say. For months they have watched their plant being dismantled and shipped to China, piece by piece, as they show teams of Chinese workers how to do the jobs they have dedicated their lives to.
Well, you gotta love that spinning wheel don't you? We, up here in Canada, started experiencing that chit way back when your country insisted on Free Trade being implemented.
Our Prime Minister even sang a duet (Irish Eyes Are Smiling) with Reagan at it's signing. It's first result was us training Americans and watching our factories going to the right-to-work states back then. Next step was Mexico now it's China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malasia, India, Pakistan and any other chit hole country that can put up a cardboard shack and run wiring across the floor to machines you probably built for them.
Well, you gotta love that spinning wheel don't you? We, up here in Canada, started experiencing that chit way back when your country insisted on Free Trade being implemented.
Our Prime Minister even sang a duet (Irish Eyes Are Smiling) with Reagan at it's signing. It's first result was us training Americans and watching our factories going to the right-to-work states back then. Next step was Mexico now it's China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malasia, India, Pakistan and any other chit hole country that can put up a cardboard shack and run wiring across the floor to machines you probably built for them.
What goes around, comes around!
Yes, and ironically, Canada is the biggest 'chit hole' country of them all.
meh, he's wrong in blaming the US when Canada just as willingly signed on for free trade, but I'd much rather live in Canada than any of those other places
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