Don't forget the customers. You don't hear any iphone fags complaining that their iphone was made in factory in China with such horrible working conditions young girls are leaping off of buildings to get out of that hell.
Now, imagine what a boost to the economy that would result if those factories were in the U.S.
Well, they're getting rid of all the people who were hired under the old benefits plan before they can start collecting their pensions. That's why they're offering employees jobs at the outsourcer. In order to get those jobs they have to quit Xerox.
That's just a cycle companies go thru. Management teams need an argument to go to the board of directors with to justify huge bonuses. So one management team goes to the board and claims if they outsource, the company will save hundreds of millions of dollars so it's only fair to give them a 100 millions in bonuses.
Of course, now they all have unimaginable fortunes, and are gone in a few years. So now the next management team comes in and claims that bringing the work in-house will save the company hundreds of millions, and so they too get paid unimaginable fortunes.
It's not just the labor costs. Companies get a tax break on profits earned overseas. The governments where they are outsourcing often agree to buy the company's products if they provide jobs. They'll also provide various subsidies.
The big reason is these large companies are developing a work force that gets no benefits or job security.
Exactly. And the other side of younger people being more socialible is that they have a life outside of work. When 5 rolls around they want to leave and do their own thing. A lot of boomers have been working 60 hour weeks all their working lives, making it hard for them to develop interests outside of work. So they don't want to go home. And they think that people who don't dedicate their lives to their jobs are lazy. You've seen their posts on f2 complaining about how lazy young people are.
Hiring middle-aged people of any generation can be a problem. They might have worked 10,15,20 years at their previous company, so they were used to being the big man at the old company. They're always complaining about how things aren't being done right, right being how it was done at the old company. They resent how younger people bossing them around. They're terrified of being unemployed again, so they won't take vacations and are always trying to hide what they do so they can't be replaced.
Oh, ok. So you believe Fisher should not have been punished because he was too insane to understand that a short lived embargo had been placed on Yugoslavia. Who would expect an insane guy to understand current politics?
Fisher wouldn't kiss government ass. That's all they really wanted. He was supposed to break right away like most Americans do in the face of government power, then they'd put his tearful face begging for forgiveness in the papers and that would have been the end of it.
See, that would be teh kind of thing that would drive a man like Fisher insane. Let me explain. We know now, for a fact, that bin Laden was under house arrest in Pakistan from 2005, when his house was built. We also know, for a fact, that Bush went from throwing everything we had against bin Laden's allies in Afghanistan to "bin Laden who? ", at somewhat the same time.
But you can't see the connection here, even tho it seems obvious to me. Your mind is not even capable of seeing the connection.
Now this doesn't bother me, I'm older and know I could never convince you.
But what if I was 15 and you were an authority figure? Then it might really affect me.
There are vast conspiracies controlling world events. I don't think they are as well organized as some of the nutjobs here think, but as you get older you see them more.
For example, obviously Bush knew that bin Laden was under house arrest in Pakistan. It's the obvious, now, reason Bush and Cheney went from terrified of another bin Laden attack to "bin Laden who?".
I can see this because I've been around for a while, and it's pretty obvious.
Fisher, now, was so brilliant he could look at a half finished game on a chess board, and know what it will look like in 30 moves. And what 30 moves it took to get there.
What if he was that way with everything, from an early age? What if when he was 16, he could see a news report about something like the Seals killing bin Laden, and immediately knew the coverup? And what if he knew this, not as speculation, but as compelling truth?
Well, that's why Emma is doing modeling instead of Broadway.
A lot of movie stars don't act. Have you ever seen De Niro play anyone but De Niro?
It's all a long shot anyway. The Harry Potter guy is never going to make it. Male child stars have a hard time because they're almost all manlets, boys who have reached almost full size at 14 and so look good and are coordinated.
That's what Shirley Temple did. She seems happier than someone like Brittany who tries to keep going.
Still, it's pretty hard to go from acting in blockbuster movies and being teh center of attention for the entire world to being the wife of an American ambassador.
