It's interesting that this article was posted today on Reuters. I've known this for quite some time. As USA businesses shrink their budgets in all departments, fail to see the importance of paying IT workers properly and shrinking their budgets while shrinking their IT server room budgets (more servers, but cheaper servers, blade servers, and lots of virtualization), skimp on raises, and fail to see the effect of increased fuel and grocery costs -- it's lining up American businesses for disaster.
I was fallout from that disaster, and I got out before it became a crisis in America. Thank God I'm a freelancer and I have the freedom and the Internet to do what I do best.
We also see the typical Human Resources Department response, which is to pacify the worker into complete obedience like a trained pet. If the job of the American CEO is to pretend to care about others through United Way enrollment and then rape natural resources, customers, and employees on the side, then it is the job of the Human Resources job to spin things such that American workers almost think they're getting a great deal and work for the most wonderful leader the world has ever known. In other words, most Human Resource Departments in the USA are like Baghdad Bob in the start of one of the worst times in American history about to happen on us.
What the stupid American CEO fails to realize is that eventually you can't push people too far. They will quit. They will freelance. They will become business owners and inventors. And the ease and cash potential of the Internet, mixed with the high cost of fuel, are helping steer that phenomenon.
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