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Would You Bid for a Job?
Roland Piquepaille writes "Several U.S. hospitals have found an innovative way to deal with nursing shortage. They post shift openings and the highest hourly rate they're willing to pay on their internal networks. Then, the nurses bid online for these extra shifts. The lowest bidders get the shifts and are notified by e-mail. This bidding process is almost certainly a good thing for the hospitals, but is it good for the nurses? Or safe for you? And what will happen if other industries also adopt auction systems? Imagine a company telling you, "Hey, you want to make some extra dollars by building this car or writing this piece of software? Name your price, and you'll make some more cash." What do you think of this bidding process? Read more before posting your comments."
And the media tells people what to do, one way or another. In reality, most people don't really think much about such things, because the media doesn't pay much attention to such things. So, you may thingk you are in some sort of vanguard, pushing the envelope here with this "outspoken" view of yours. But in reality, you are just going along with what TeeVee tells you to do.
Sorry to put it that way, but that is my honest opinion....
eat shiat and bark at the moon
If you didn't sound like a nut who is ignorant of economics, you might get a job. You live in the best country in the world with the most opportunities anywhere, yet you still want to blame your failures on others. Move on.
I assume you are complaining about the tech market which has undergone a large shrink and for good reason; there were way too many IT/IS workers who had no real skills, no love for the job, and little experience. They simply took some CS courses at the community college because "that's where the money is".
We can't hire enough people around here that is for certain... but then again we aren't hiring Bob the electrician who just aced his MCSD boot-camp.
Natural != (nontoxic || beneficial)
Loss of jobs starting with manufacturing, but now quickly moving up through intellectual "white collar" professions, points to a growing joblessness with no end in sight.
The Navy is always hiring.
How about simply not breaking the damn law? That ought to make using the internet much more pleasant don't you think?
Why do folks who live in free western democracies decide to revolt against the system because of one tiny annoying law or another?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Create laws so that the citizens are the owners, and that our time is valuable. Pay a basic minimum income to all citizens. Slow down immigration. Offer tax-funded national healtcare. Build public subsidized housing. And make all these govt programs transparent and effective. Government is just a machines. Machines can be improved.
You can have most of that already, just move to France. And then join the crowd complaining about tax rates, public services unreliability and inefficiency, and bureaucratic clutter.
Maybe we deserve this world ?