Lost Jobs

[missourimary]

Originally Posted by TrmptPraise

If a kid falls off a bike, the manufacturer is scrutinized since there must have been a defect....
I even drank from a garden hose once and lived.

Just once? We drank from garden hoses in the summers and ate icecycles from the roof and snow straight from the yard in the winters. Our bikes were so old that no one remembered who the manufacturer was, so scrutinizing the manufacturer when we fell off a bike wasn't a possibility. We were healthy and happy.

As a nation, our prosperity may be our death.

[geekette]

Lost jobs...All of the jobs I'm talking about here are well-paying tech jobs that start at around $50K and go up.

It used to be, back in the day (as in "only a few years ago") information security positions were not allowed in our company to be sent to India. That has changed. Some of the people I share an office with are not so happy about this development. And, as I told my manager yesterday, if they can offshore information security, what about my job?

The one thing that mitigates against our jobs being outsourced is that our senior manager HATES India with a passion. This is a woman who went driving around central Europe with her husband for her vacation this summer, so she likes to travel. But her beef with India was that, as a woman, even as a senior manager, she was basically told to sit in a corner and shut up unless spoken to. That did not go over well with her. If she has her way, we're not going to be bringing on any more folks from India beyond the one guy who works with the India division.

If they keep doing this to us, we're not going to have the money to keep buying all the junk that China keeps sending our way.

[Scott Hutchinson]

In my area,plants have closed and they have not been replaced.

[dizzyde]

A lot of the jobs that have been lost are due to a trickle down affect of our country living way beyond it's means for a long time.

I am going to be without a job at the end of the month, and it is directly the result of the economy.

It has been a tough couple of years for churches (I work at a church) anyway, the loss of revenue that has occurred because of so many losing jobs, having to move away for other jobs. But our church had managed to pull through, then the state of California went bankrupt. All non-essential services were cut, and that included state funded preschools.

One of the major ways that our church has received funds for the last couple of years is from our leasing a portion of our facility to a Head Start preschool during the week. So, long story short, our church will be fine, but we are having to cut all of our running costs dramatically, and I and some of the janitorial staff were the most expendable.

It is a little humorous to me that the more politically conservative among our church members moan and groan about how much money the government was giving to "those people, and those programs" but we were benefiting directly from them. And now, it is hurting us because funding is being cut to "those people and programs," and they want to cry about that... Ironic.

Can't have it both ways!

[Liberal]

Originally Posted by dizzyde

A lot of the jobs that have been lost are due to a trickle down affect of our country living way beyond it's means for a long time.

I am going to be without a job at the end of the month, and it is directly the result of the economy.

It has been a tough couple of years for churches (I work at a church) anyway, the loss of revenue that has occurred because of so many losing jobs, having to move away for other jobs. But our church had managed to pull through, then the state of California went bankrupt. All non-essential services were cut, and that included state funded preschools.

One of the major ways that our church has received funds for the last couple of years is from our leasing a portion of our facility to a Head Start preschool during the week. So, long story short, our church will be fine, but we are having to cut all of our running costs dramatically, and I and some of the janitorial staff were the most expendable.

It is a little humorous to me that the more politically conservative among our church members moan and groan about how much money the government was giving to "those people, and those programs" but we were benefiting directly from them. And now, it is hurting us because funding is being cut to "those people and programs," and they want to cry about that... Ironic.

Can't have it both ways!

Oh, you haven't heard? Liberals cause every single problem that exists in America. I'm surprised you didn't know!

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by Liberal

Oh, you haven't heard? Liberals cause every single problem that exists in America. I'm surprised you didn't know!

Well, really, don't the liberals cause all the problems everywhere???