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26 Jul 12
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If you are willing to pay $100 per barrel of oil there’s plenty of the stuff to be purchased. There’s a glut of $100 oil. But if you will only pay $10 per barrel of oil there’s a critical shortage. In fact at $10 America probably has no oil at all.
In America right now there is a glut of $80,000-and-above IT workers and a shortage of $40,000-and-below IT workers.
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If you are willing to pay $100 per barrel of oil there’s plenty of the stuff to be purchased. There’s a glut of $100 oil. But if you will only pay $10 per barrel of oil there’s a critical shortage. In fact at $10 America probably has no oil at all.
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It’s illegal to discriminate based on age but not illegal to discriminate based on cost, yet one is a proxy for the other. So this is not just class warfare, it is generational warfare.
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Exporting a crappy help desk to Pakistan might not be a good idea, but if the current standard is bad enough then Pakistan is unlikely to be worse.
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CEOs who are operating at a level of abstraction bordering on delusion. And nobody below these CEOs sees any margin in telling them the truth.
Against this we have a cadre of IT workers who have been slowly boiled like frogs put into a cold pot.
By the time they realize what’s happened these people are cooked. They are not just resentful but in many cases resentful and useless, having been so damaged by their work experience. They just want things to go back the way there were but this will never happen.Never.
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CEOs aren’t into soul-searching
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explained MS’s stacked ranking a few years ago. He said the managers building and running any team fought to make sure they got a loser on their team because somebody was going to have to be slammed in their team reviews. Getting the loser meant that the stars were protected, and you could build and sustain a team.
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09 Jul 12
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07 Jul 12
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In America right now there is a glut of $80,000-and-above IT workers and a shortage of $40,000-and-below IT workers.
Remember that $80,000-and-above population comes with a surcharge for benefits that may not equally apply to the $40,000-and-below crowd, especially if those are overseas or in this country temporarily. A good portion of that surcharge relates to costs that increase with age, so older workers are more expensive than younger workers.
It’s illegal to discriminate based on age but not illegal to discriminate based on cost, yet one is a proxy for the other. So this is not just class warfare, it is generational warfare.
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