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Old 11-05-2009, 02:56 PM   #133 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PunKidd View Post
You gotta hate the corporate structure. Everything is done based on what is best for profits and not what is best for the employees, the customer, or even the long term stability of the company. I was an engineer for Applied Materials (microchip manufacturing equipment manufacturer) for ~4 years before I started UpRev and they are into all the same crap. Sending jobs over seas, cutting wages whenever they can find a good excuse, overworking and under paying EVERYONE. It's total BS, but in a country (and now world) where corporations rule supreme above all governments, it's never gonna change, only get worse until they squeeze us all so hard the whole system fails. I'm a firm believer in true capitalism and what it does for communities, but that's not what we've had in this country for a LONG time. It's been corporatisum for a LONG time now and true capitalists don't stand a chance.
It's actually not as bad in every country. I had a European explain it to me:

"In most areas of Europe, management looks at the labor force as an asset. If they have a good worker, they want to do everything they can to keep that person working in their company. They look at companies like a family; if the company does well, they assume that EVERYONE from top to bottom had a hand in it. In America, labor is looked at purely as a liability. Management has absolutely no desire to cultivate their workers, and if they can find someone to do the job for less money, they are more than happy even if the replacement is of lower quality. If a company does well, all of the credit goes to the executives and upper level management."

A bit of a generalization of course, but I think it's about as good of an explanation as I've heard.
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