Today, employers reward for the value you create. The factory worker, whether in what is readily recognized as a factory or one which looks, to outsiders, like a medical clinic or hospital, who simply shows up on time, does what he or she is told (you know, follows protocols) and then clocks out at the end of the shift, creates no real value in comparison with the next worker.
Today, there’s no longer even the “promise” of lifetime employment. “Retirement” as in replacement, replacement just like an old machine, is as far off as the next layoff or the next outsourcing.
Those who are surprised that employers are increasingly turning to part time workers and temps to escape Obamacare are clueless.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem to think that businesses don’t exist to make a profit. Grilling Aetna, as they plan to do this week, over the “real” reason it left the Obamacare exchanges won’t change the program’s failed economics.
Models. No, not the skinny kind in a magazine. But conceptual frameworks. Like global warming “models” or even Obamacare.
Today, there’s no longer even the “promise” of lifetime employment. “Retirement” as in replacement, replacement just like an old machine, is as far off as the next layoff or the next outsourcing.
These are two entirely different goals and if a definitive answer doesn’t immediately pop out of your mouth you’re in trouble.
Consistent with the communal notions of the “We” society, physicians are being told by politicians, pundits and the press that you are in social services – do you really believe this?
These are two entirely different goals and if a definitive answer doesn’t immediately pop out of your mouth you’re in trouble. A dog may have four legs, but it can only walk in one direction at a time.