Sad but true.

[T. Erdelyi]

Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor! ( MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI-LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB .

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in.....AMERICA....

 

[Bob W]

It's interesting. What comes around goes around.

You should hear all of the technology people moaning about their jobs being exported to India and elsewhere. But notice the cars in the tech companies' parking lots...

Karma?

 

[orthogonal1]

Oh, but it is a "service economy." Joe must lower his employment expectatations.

Waste disposal technician is still up and coming. (No offense to those in the industry, it can pay well. Just not "super" well.)

 

[Bob W]

Yep, no matter what town "Joe" lives in, he can easily find work. Of course it'll probably be changing sheets in a motel or working fast food, assuming that "Joe" has no education or professional certifications.

There are perpetual and ongoing worker shortages in the fields of education, medicine, construction, and transportation. But let me guess, those jobs are too hard and Joe doesn't want them.

I don't think this post contradicts my previous; I like to think that I can see both sides of the issue.

-Bob

 

[T. Erdelyi]

I want to know how he can afford a german car with no job?

 

[Daniel Moore]

He probably got a VW Golf back when he had a decent job, and once he got cut, at ~$2.30 a gallon, he's probably better off buying foreign

 

[Bob W]

Based on your description, I imagine that "joe" has had a good paying job in the past, definitely a yuppie job, probably pushing papers around and talking on the phone. Now he sees that sort of job as a 'Right' and physical labor as beneath him. Can you imagine "Joe" driving his German car, while wearing his sandles and dress shirt, on his way to a temp job on a pipline construction project? Fat chance.

-Bob

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Based on your description, I imagine that "joe" has had a good paying job in the past, definitely a yuppie job, probably pushing papers around and talking on the phone. Now he sees that sort of job as a 'Right' and physical labor as beneath him.

Too true. Back in 1970 when I was on my first week with the Postal Service, they took us around from section to section, doing different kinds of post office work as orientation.

We got to one section where we had to lift heavy sacks of collection mail and empty them into a hopper. I was ready for it. I came to work in jeans and flannel shirt and boots. One young man wore dark slacks, white shirt, Cross pen and pencil in his pocket. He stood there looking at those big, dirty canvas sacks of mail and literally cried: "I thought I was going to be a CLERK!"

 

[dsvirsky]

Too true. Back in 1970 when I was on my first week with the Postal Service, they took us around from section to section, doing different kinds of post office work as orientation./QUOTE]

We do something similar where I work. New claims examiners spend their first couple of weeks working in files, so that they can get a little bit of a feel for the whole process. However, I often think that we'd be better off sending them out to dig ditches for a couple of weeks, instead, so that they could appreciate just how good they have it. We've got folks who have been promoted quickly and, at the age of 30-something, are making $60k, which is very good money around these parts, and all they do is whine about their jobs. :jerkit: