Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Subcontracting is the curse of the modern economy" video.
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I'm sorry but your prejudices are showing. You are blaming a cog in the machine instead of the bright sparks who changed it's design. HR unsurprisingly are employees who are there to protect those who are running the business. They do not get to decide how that that should be done. They are told what their priorities should be, and will lose their job if they do anything else. HR does not get to define anything operational or what priorities should be pursued. Consequently, you know get a lot of employers bending the rules to get what they want, not what is the right and fair thing to do. Rather, poop always run down hill. HR is just trying to keep their job just like any other department. Fail to do as they are told, and they too will be unemployed. So expecting anything more from them is naive. It is the people who have the power to set the priorities of that organisation who are to blame, and they are as much enculturated by a set of incentives that do not put customers as the highest priority. Rather it is profit, and shareholder primacy which together are the demons that are possessing the minds of those people running enterprises. Since the Neoliberal world view has become preeminent, we now promote the creation of inefficiency to ensure everyone one but the employees and Middle and lower management gets their cut, and in turn, nobody challenges the follies being perpetrated. Corporatism is the handmaiden of Neoliberalism, and in short, it's a scam. It's a squeeze, where customers and society at large become resources to be exploited rather than be maintained or served. Is it inevitable? No; but as long as we tolerate it this parasitical relationship between corporations and society, things will only get worse. In extracting as much profit from the process, corporations are becoming more parasites, than protectors and maintainers of society. Indeed, the UK is being run more like a extraction colony of some unseen empire everyday for the last 50 years. Consequently, living standards for the majority have stagnated or collapsed, and productivity has declined relative to our rivals. But we've got more fat cats more than ever. Go figure.
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Sorry, but we're not the laziest or unproductive workers in Europe. We're the least invested in workers in Europe. From the cuts in education where we are turning out the wrong types of workers for the jobs needed, from corporations expecting never to train their employees, and Government expecting the magic private sector to take care of manpower planning in the economy, and you get the omnishambles of UK plc, where we are ever more dependent on importing talent ratther than growing it. You get the buzzwords like "lifelong learning" but no funding to provide it. And we do not pay apprentices a living wage, even though they are learning in the job. They don't even get enough to pay their bus fare to go into their apprenticeship. We have unpaid internships, which are exploitative, and there is no guarantee, any longer of security for workers. Indeed if those at the top are only doing the bare minimum, why do you thing anyone else will do more than that? When I hear people say British workers are lazy, I just say "it's monkey see, monkey do." It's time certain corporate leaders led by example, and stopped bitching about how lazy everyone else is but they are. They are many who are lazy, short-sighted, and irresponsible with the power society gives them. I know, I worked for many of them. To the extent, I wish I hadn't. The jobs I loved gave me control over how I did my job, and helped me to do it well. And I turned out results to the best of my ability. That is not the norm. We have to be honest with ourselves as a country, and admit that our problems reflect our priorities, and if we don't like dealing with those problems, we need to look hard at our priorities. Blaming and scapegoating does nothing useful. If you cannot motivate your workers, then that is your problem. Not there's. Even if what you said was true about British workers being lazy - which it isn't; British workers work longer hours than anyone else in Europe - they weren't born that way. They were made that way because their leaders are that way. Look at what Prime Ministers we are creating, and that should give you pause, because if they are the best this country has to offer as leadership, you shouldn't be surprised that others just might be either following their examples, or being apathetic.
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