Corporates... don't trust them
In life the system is simple:

Low risk = low rewards
High risk = high rewards

Problem is... you only have to read the answers here to see what it really is.

A power exchange.

You start off with no power. We all take on jobs that are, frankly, crap. We have no power or control and are only doing something until management finds a cheaper way of doing it. Then they'll drop you like a hot potato. An Indian can do it cheaper? Then off your job goes. A computer can do it... well guess what?

And here's the horrible horrible truth - the management can't even change it. One rival does it, they cut their costs. We go to a shop and we see the rival company's DVD player at a nice cheap price and we think "oooh, cheap DVD player!" So if they don't do the same cost-cutting as their rivals, they're buggered.

So if we shop purely on price, we're messing up people's jobs, careers and lives. And the support we'll get will be crap because the employees will keep leaving and taking their knowledge away. Flouncing like so many people we're reading about...

The only way we get great jobs is:

Do hard stuff.
Do crap stuff nobody else wants to do (a reliable veg picker can make £30k a year and binmen do well too).
Do stuff that nobody else knows how to do.

But by god, I've just written the most boring post ever....
(clopinettes, Sat 24 May 2008, 16:52, Reply)