Comments on: Of no posts, new content, and unemployment http://mgmtnow.com/of-no-posts-new-content-and-unemployment/ Go-Beyond Branding Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:30:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: DidntGetAPonyforChristmas http://mgmtnow.com/of-no-posts-new-content-and-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-139 DidntGetAPonyforChristmas Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:15:29 +0000 http://mgmtnow.com/?p=628#comment-139 Blah blah blah... another internet web site for job seekers. You have Dice, Monster, HotJobs and a ton more. It is about as weak of a concept as creating a new search engine when you have Google. Businesses need money. You can easily get that from cutting SG&A expenses (i.e. salaries). Outsourcing to India or China, and using more contract labor is something we will continue to see, not just in the IT arena. Why mess with the hiring process when you have five hundred applicants attempting to get the one open position? Why create another job seeker site when the internet is full of them? Your suggestion is not innovative? It is mundane.. commonplace... boring... and not something a company would invest in. It is a buyer's market, and companies are in the driving seat. Let's try something else... think Blue Ocean Nick. Become a grim reaper. Step 1 - Go into a company and do a time management study. Find out who is actually doing work, and who is not. Take those resource numbers and create a plan to outsource them. Then lay those people off. Step 2 - Go into an area with uncontrolled unemployment numbers, like western Kansas or West Virginia. Find the ten smartest guys in town and teach them how to program java. Hook them up with a cheap laptop and a high-speed internet connection. Step 3 - Use your new "senior consultants" to replace the people you laid off in the company from step 1. Set the billable rate to something that is half what the full time employee was making, and let them get their own health benefits. Step 4 - Sit back and collect money. Do it for a year, sell your new company to IBM, buy the big house and never work again. Sounds crazy? I know people who have done it. The problem with the American worker is that they feel entitled. You OWE me a job.. you OWE me a big fat salary with huge benefits. You OWE me the right to play frisbee on the front lawn instead of actually doing my job. Or worse yet, you take away my work at home day, so I have to actually work instead of playing World of Warcraft. If we are to survive as a society, we need to lose the attitude and come back to reality. Hard work, and not some witty internet site, is how you succeed in business. If we are not willing to put in the hard work, then welcome to the world of China and India. Blah blah blah… another internet web site for job seekers. You have Dice, Monster, HotJobs and a ton more. It is about as weak of a concept as creating a new search engine when you have Google.

Businesses need money. You can easily get that from cutting SG&A expenses (i.e. salaries). Outsourcing to India or China, and using more contract labor is something we will continue to see, not just in the IT arena. Why mess with the hiring process when you have five hundred applicants attempting to get the one open position? Why create another job seeker site when the internet is full of them? Your suggestion is not innovative? It is mundane.. commonplace… boring… and not something a company would invest in. It is a buyer’s market, and companies are in the driving seat.

Let’s try something else… think Blue Ocean Nick. Become a grim reaper.

Step 1 – Go into a company and do a time management study. Find out who is actually doing work, and who is not. Take those resource numbers and create a plan to outsource them. Then lay those people off.

Step 2 – Go into an area with uncontrolled unemployment numbers, like western Kansas or West Virginia. Find the ten smartest guys in town and teach them how to program java. Hook them up with a cheap laptop and a high-speed internet connection.

Step 3 – Use your new “senior consultants” to replace the people you laid off in the company from step 1. Set the billable rate to something that is half what the full time employee was making, and let them get their own health benefits.

Step 4 – Sit back and collect money. Do it for a year, sell your new company to IBM, buy the big house and never work again.

Sounds crazy? I know people who have done it.

The problem with the American worker is that they feel entitled. You OWE me a job.. you OWE me a big fat salary with huge benefits. You OWE me the right to play frisbee on the front lawn instead of actually doing my job. Or worse yet, you take away my work at home day, so I have to actually work instead of playing World of Warcraft. If we are to survive as a society, we need to lose the attitude and come back to reality. Hard work, and not some witty internet site, is how you succeed in business. If we are not willing to put in the hard work, then welcome to the world of China and India.

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