Huffington Post: 10 Scary New Realities Of Today's Job Market

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Full article @ the URL below.

10 Scary New Realities Of Today's Job Market



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/30/job-hunters-guide-to-post_n_745040.html

You're Going To Be Asked To Do More With Less

Big Bonuses Are Out, Negotiations Are In

Workers Are Being Held Back By Housing

Temp Jobs Are Surging

An Education No Longer Means You'll Find A Job

As Retirement Is Put On Hold, The Workforce Is Aging Rapidly

The Finance Industry Is Showing Signs Of Trouble

Internships Are Increasingly Crucial

Lawyers May Struggle To Find Jobs

IT Industry Consolidation Could Squeeze Workers

[gkhouston]

1. They need to check their servers; this "new reality" is years old. n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Yep...the "You're Going To Be Asked To Do More With Less" item...

...A.K.A. "productivity gains," A.K.A. "We just fired the guy in the cubicle next to you, now you'll be doing your job and his" has been prevalent at least since the dot com bubble "burst."

I remember the Cisco layoffs of 2001. It was a two-step process...shitcan an employee, assign his/her responsibilities to one of the drones you've decided to spare for the moment.

[Vincardog]

2. IT Industry Consolidation Could Squeeze Workers? I have been squeezed for YEARS

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. And having come from an IT environment, I'm in 100% agreement with you

I've seen it, and because (prior to starting my own business) I was in management, I heard all of the "behind closed doors" debates about how to best go about the squeezing.

I remember at one point, when Cisco discovered the joys of outsourcing, virtually 100% of the requests to get anything done in the IT arena were met with "This sounds like a great opportunity to test our new offshoring capabilities."

They'd hire ONE guy from India, who spoke reasonably good English, and this guy would be the KINGPIN...the Al Capone of IT. If you didn't learn how to kiss his ass early in the game, your requests were either handled apathetically or not at all. They'd staff him up with as many programmers as needed...all from India with work visas, some who spoke English, some who had to speak through him. At lunchtime they would sit horseshoe fashion, with their backs to the bullpen area they worked in, facing the entrance. If you came around the corner and walked into their area, all eyes would be on you and you'd hear "WE'RE EATING LUNCH." Eventually they "trained" everyone not to bother them during lunchtime.

Meanwhile, if I were sitting in my cubicle eating lunch and someone came up and interrupted me and I said "I'm eating lunch" the response would be something along the lines of "Fuck you AND your lunch, I need this NOW."

God, did I hate that place.

[Brickbat]

4. "Internships are increasingly crucial" -- for companies who want to get something for nothing.

[The Uncola]

6. #11

If you become unemployed after age 50, better get used to it, because it's likely you'll never get hired again. By anyone.

[Newest Reality]

7. Well,

when you are in a Class War that is won because you aren't supposed to know you are in it, that's the result, ey?

That subject should be at the forefront of the debacle since we are losing and the war is coming to its climax. We eventually surrender on the terms of the highest financial caste in this country and that's that.

The travesty is that the underlying battle is censored and taboo. We can see the divisive issues that the corporate media constantly throws out, (and that vast numbers of people follow and engage in seriously). It is not difficult to see, (since it is becoming more transparent) how the political system supports and camouflages the dominance and control of the highest caste. You know, the ones who own most of everything now. Most of us are simply renting a space in our own country and can now be legally evicted without a trial or even knowing why, if they want to. Many of us have become poverty-stricken nomads, wondering about, homeless -- can't pay what is due the Master. How can we call this "our" country, in that sense?

We are shackled by the tendency to attach most information about the rigid, ingrained, financially powerful class system and how it functions to communist or socialist ideology. Therefore people generally reject them because the people have been conditioned to suspect and vilify anything that contrasts capitalism even while it metastasizes into Fascism before our eyes. Winston Smith understands.

So, even though we don't need to espouse communism or embrace older experiments in socialism, any national discourse on dismantling the hierarchical class structure that oppresses most of us is always dead in the water. This system works far better than most people understand and even its crises appear to be functional and enriching to its real owners while vast numbers of people go numb with the shock and awe, lose everything and suffer immensely, smack dab in the middle of abundance and unimaginable wealth. all for want of faith-based tickets from the keepers.

A shout-out to all the prisoners of this war, regardless of whether they know they are or not. My condolences to the losers. Willful ignorance was the most powerful weapon.

Just saying.