They said they are sorry for the poor choice of words.
These words:
THE GOAL OF PERM:Run classified ads that do NOT find any qualified U.S. workers.
Posted on 06/18/2007 5:53:11 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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Let's not be loose with the allegations.
Arnold is an Austrian citizen and a U.S. citizen. Austrian law automatically voids Austrian citizenship if an Austrian national swears allegiance to another nation. In 1983, Schwarzenegger took the oath of citizenship and became a U.S. citizen. Subsequently, Arnold lobbied friends in high places to have his prior Austrian citizenship reinstated. I do not believe you can pledge allegiance to two nations simultaneously. His pledge to the U.S. was weakened by his subsequent action.
Bump.
CNBC will be discussing this next on their show!
I think you're right on this one.
Bump
I agree with what you posted. It’s individual greed definitely.
For instance, if any of you ever worked or knew someone who worked in retail, you know that they’ve all made it the sales clerks job to push store and credit cards on customers or magazines or service plans (Best Buy, etc) and that they are judged VERY harshly on this aspect of their job. They often do not inform people of this beforehand and spring it on them afterwards.
In any case, the ‘rewards’ the associates get are meager. A chance to COMPETE in a raffle for a piddling discount or free item or gift card somewhere. Meanwhile, the managers who do NOT do ANY of the sales work in getting customers to sign up for these credit cards or service plans collect fat bonuses based on how hard they drive the underlings to get results.
One of the things that people think is great about publicly-traded companies is that you or I can own a piece of an institution, an emerging business, whatever. The problem is that publicly-traded companies have far less accountability than a privately-owned company. It’s that example people brought up of Milton Hershey refusing to use too much machinery building a plant during the Depression because he wanted to hire more people. Or that guy who had the factory in New England that burned down and continued to pay people salaries and rebuilt the thing.
An individual can drive a company culture all by himself and be an exemplar of those principles elucidated in Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments.
With the structure of the corporation, the management set up conflicts of interest among employees (such as I mentioned—why wouldn’t the people actually DOING the great sales jobs get rewarded MORE than the people who act like a-holes and drive others to do it from fear?) and to play shell games and numbers games with stockholders.
It’s all about stock price but half the time the numbers being presented at these meetings are illusory. I see it in my job all the time. Decisions and strategies that are actually DAMAGING (I’m in property management) to the company’s reputation, loses it customers (First rule of business, I thought—keep your customers) and cost it money are done for the sake of throwing some numbers in the faces of the stockholders so they can get that price up, get their own bonuses and set themselves up for their inevitable departure to another corporation to repeat the process.
I’m not saying corporations are evil or to ban them or that there are no disreputable or grasping privately-owned businesses, it’s just that the structure of the corporation and how it defines its successes and failures and how competing agendas within the structure of ‘the team’ will lead to certain results.
They said they are sorry for the poor choice of words.
These words:
THE GOAL OF PERM:Run classified ads that do NOT find any qualified U.S. workers.
Nope, absolutely the truth, CNBC did a little segment on it. They gave one tease right before the commercial, ran some of the video, had about 30 seconds of commentary, and that was the end of it.
I read on another thread today that Fox News did a segment on it today somewhere.
Now that’s good news.
The more this gets out the better for America to be better informed.
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??? Why bother email the lawyers who are simply hired guns? Send the link to your congress critter. That's where the fault lies. (Well there, and Microsoft, Motorola and HP)
Yep, nothing like sticking it to the American worker. Maybe a barrage of phone calls to the firm seeking comment to tie up their phone lines asking why are you screwing the American public. Oh yea, thats right your an attorney. Thanks for bringing this up.
Fox News had a segment on this today as well. I have a feeling that the bright person who decided it was good exposure to put the vids up on YouTube is looking for another job right now
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wtae/20070622/lo_wtae/13554620
One of you might post this story as a thread, if you think worthy
Thanks, Shermy. It looks like another thread went up tonight on the same subject, so I’ll let the other one go. I think there are at least 4 threads now (keyword: cohen grigsby)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854963/posts
Cool screenshots, Syncro! You might want to put them on the new thread, too.
“h1b” is another good keyword for these threads.
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