As an employer, this kind of crap infuriates me. According to lawyers, OSHA & all other government agencies, employers are responsible for every thing their stupid employees do. They get in an accident, it’s our fault, we’re sued. They disobey safety policies, it’s our fault, we’re sued and / or fined.
They keep limiting what we can ask, but we’re more and more responsible for them.
F’d up world. We need personal responsibility and common sense again.
Obama won’t protect the unborn but loves criminals.
The Industrial Age has brought about a series of changes that has led to an irreconcilable problem tied to the human condition: most people are incapable of working for themselves, and must rely on someone else for their employment. Personally, I think a democratic form of government is ultimately doomed to failure under these circumstances. Giving people the authority to govern themselves makes no sense when they aren’t capable of doing basic human functions anymore.
Re: “As an employer, this kind of crap infuriates me. According to lawyers, OSHA & all other government agencies, employers are responsible for every thing their stupid employees do.”
One word solution...
Robots.
I come from five generations of small business owners.
Fifty years from now, general management skills will be completely useless.
Thank, God.
I was going to post pretty much what 17th Miss Regt said.
That’s the major problem. The activists found out that aptitude testing eliminated applicants from their favored groups, so out it went. Then when college degrees became the substitute, they started going after the SATs and any other college admission criteria that had the same filtering effect they didn’t like.
I think one side effect of this is that more and more employers are hiring contractors instead of employees. That makes it easier to weed people out and get rid of the bad ones.
If it were up to me, I’d let employers give whatever tests they want to. They are the ones taking the risk on an employee. If they hire stupidly or discriminate against a truly qualified candidate, their more savvy competitors would snap him/her up.
The government needs to get their noses out of our business, both literally and figuratively.