Over the years my workplace has become more and more hostile to smokers. Smokers are definitely in the minority around here but there are nonetheless a fair number of them around here. Seven or eight years ago there used to be one break room in the building where people could smoke while drinking their [...]
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Yesterday in the AA News business section Mike Ramsey wrote a really ridiculous article about an impending shortage of skilled labor in this country. “There’s a lot of baby boomers in the population and the first ones turned 60 not too long ago, and by 2010 a lot of them will be leaving [...] I was reading news on Newsvine today and I saw this link to an editorial in The Nation. The newsvine headline read Op-Ed: $13,700 An Hour. The editorial discusses stagnant pay among most working Americans and the pay of corporate executives and the headline refers specifically to the CEO of ExxonMobil who earned $13,700/hour [...] So this morning I look at the auto pages of the local papers and it is all about huge layoffs of engineers at General Motors, anywhere from at few hundred to a couple of thousand at the Warren, MI Tech Center. So what pops in my e-mail this afternoon? A message from a head-hunter [...] I just spotted this on a sign posted outside a cubicle at my office Due to the current financial constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice. That about sums up the situation around here. Tweet A Detroit Free Press story yesterday proves that auto parts can be profitably manufactured in Michigan. More importantly this is being done while workers are being paid good wages. The interesting thing here is that this is a privately held company. It seems that if the management of a company doesn’t have to worry [...] I had to interview someone today for an open position we have in our group. Given the events of the past week (see my previous posts on salary harmonization) I had a hard time even trying to get someone to come to work here. The candidate did at least seem more capable than the [...] I previously posted about the the salary harmonization plan put together by our human resources department. Well this thing has turned into a complete clusterfuck. First they told us that we would all be slotted into ne salary grades based on what we do. Everyone in a grade would have the same compensation plan. [...] Well today our HR department unvieled part of the results of their salary harmonization project. Over the years through mergers and buyouts different parts of the company have ended up with different compensation plans from old companies. They wanted to get everyone on the same plan. For the past 10 years I have been [...] |
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