tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post5433494313993941425..comments2024-03-29T09:08:47.702-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Something I've Been Predicting For Years Seems to be HappeningSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45750467912819684932018-11-04T15:50:15.893-05:002018-11-04T15:50:15.893-05:00Aesop:
It ain't just low-tech low-skill jobs....Aesop:<br /><br />It ain't just low-tech low-skill jobs.<br /><br />I can work endlessly as a per diem/registry/traveler RN, at 200% of base pay, but if I try to get a full-time job with benefits, I can't even get the dog to play with me with a pork chop tied to my neck.<br /><br />Hospitals are hiring new grads full-time, full benefits. Then when the magic birthday hits, and they start to need those benefits, firing them for any reason imaginable, at which point they'll never be re-hired full-time.<br /><br />Just a coincidence, I'm sure.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-44311559072463261272018-11-03T16:26:28.143-04:002018-11-03T16:26:28.143-04:00Back in the 1990s, I worked for Walt Disney as one...Back in the 1990s, I worked for Walt Disney as one of their audioanimatronics technicians. My job was repairing the robots that Disney dressed up as cartoon characters and made them dance. <br /><br />One day in the summer of 1996, we had a labor-management meeting where the management representative announced that Disney's goal was to have no full time, permanent employees by the year. They claimed that it cost the company $90 million a year to provide benefits for those employees. <br /><br />One of my coworkers pointed out that Michael Eisner was getting $90 million that year in bonuses. He asked, if the company was doing so well that one man was getting a bonus equal to all of the benefits of the remaining employees, why Eisner couldn't get a smaller bonus while the rest of us got to keep our jobs. <br /><br />The next day, a bunch of us were let go, and I became a full time firefighter.Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-44674886747469280482018-11-03T11:02:59.551-04:002018-11-03T11:02:59.551-04:00Notice how all the new outsourced "compliance...Notice how all the new outsourced "compliance" contractors and consultants benefit from the increase in the need for "compliance." Employment is one giant captured regulatory market. The regulators add more regulations and the contractors "generously" offer to "help" clients to "comply."<br /><br />I notice this phenomenon with the payroll contractor, ADP, and with the healthcare and OSHA contractor, Stericycle. The companies have ballooned by selling "compliance services." These contractors allege to represent employers. Not true. These contractors represent regulators. <br /><br />billrlahttp://www.convergentmanagement.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-27449816181798284422018-11-03T10:44:59.443-04:002018-11-03T10:44:59.443-04:00Compliance costs are a killer - really dead weight...Compliance costs are a killer - really dead weight costs that provide very little benefit, or much less benefit than expected. Regulators are going to regulate and it is so difficult to rollback the Administrative State. I think the attempted lifting of some of these burdens has been why the economy has been doing well under Trump. He's at least stopped the tide for now. Tom Murinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763200486501331592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-31776800051813633822018-11-03T07:53:39.248-04:002018-11-03T07:53:39.248-04:00The only employees I have are contract employees w...The only employees I have are contract employees who are responsible for their own healthcare, etc. The costs of keeping employees (particularly certain demographics who are inclined to sue) has been something that I avoided. I have contract employees who have full time employees to fulfill their own missions, but that is not MY liability. Liability and overhead are killers.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-42588560173828473772018-11-03T02:49:40.111-04:002018-11-03T02:49:40.111-04:00My self-employed son (4y now), a certified, pressu...My self-employed son (4y now), a certified, pressure ticketed, level A welder journeyman with his own rig can certainly choose his 'gigs'. Especially, up here in the boonies of British Columbia, the land of oil and gas and sawmills, pulp mills, refineries and chemical factories, never mind molybdenum, copper and gold mining. Enough of plugging my province, it's all dirty business.<br /><br />The gig economy, as you call it, certainly gives people some amount of freedom more than an 8-5 office job, but it also requires a lot of self-reliance and responsibility. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. Done it myself with my dearly departed husband 30 years ago. :-)<br /><br />Bottom line, take responsibility of your own life, the 45 year jobs at the same company are over. Have been for a long time.MachtNichtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17207171620224357803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-59019653100982054472018-11-03T00:48:12.313-04:002018-11-03T00:48:12.313-04:00In the late 1990s I fired all of my employees and ...In the late 1990s I fired all of my employees and used only contract employees. My reason was a mix of gov regulation and gov taxes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14495862358340777039noreply@blogger.com