"New job, same company; By redeploying workers, employers can avoid morale-sapping staff cuts" by Nicole C. Wong, Globe Staff | March 20, 2009
.... Instead of being let go, the daytime housekeeping supervisor at Boston's Liberty Hotel was offered a janitorial position on the overnight shift. It was a huge relief. Hobbs's husband lost his job as a cemetery groundskeeper more than a year ago. Without a job, she said, "I wouldn't be able to pay my bills."
Yeah, call it a PROMOTION!!! From supervisor to SWABBING TOILETS on the GRAVEYARD SHIFT!! And the Globe is TRUMPETING IT as SUCCESS!!!! And, yup, GOTTA PAY those BILLS, a.k.a, creditors, a.k.a. BANKS!! Love the agenda-pushing.
For workers, the upside is obvious - continued employment, often with the same pay and benefits.
Have you had enough insults yet, readers?
For companies, it's cheaper to reassign employees already familiar with an organization's culture and procedures than to hire from outside. And there is also a broader advantage: By redeploying workers, businesses can minimize the drain on morale and productivity....
Yeah, it is ALWAYS about $$$ and NEVER about YOU!!! That's the AmeriKan BIDNESS MODEL!
Even though Hobbs switched from inspecting guest rooms to scrubbing wine stains from the lobby floor, the change isn't a demotion. She takes home the same paycheck and keeps her supervisor title....
No, it's not a demotion! Seriously, readers, how can you NOT BE INSULTED by the ELITE STINKS*** of the Globe's writers?
By ending its $13,000 monthly contract with an outsourced cleaning crew, it was able to spend money on janitorial salaries for Hobbs and three other redeployed workers who otherwise would have been unemployed.
So what happens to those workers who just lost their jobs? The way the Globe makes this sound like it is SO GOOD is really bothering me!
At the Langham Hotel Boston, the opening of a new bar and restaurant created five job openings last month. The Financial District hotel filled the positions with five employees who would otherwise have been laid off from the guest relations, administration, housekeeping, room service, and sales departments....
Yup, state is shedding THOUSANDS of JOBS and they are highlighting a handful of jobs as toilet swabbers! Pffft!
Suzanne M. Bump, Massachusetts' secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, said she expects to see worker redeployment rise because as jobs become more specialized, the cost of recruiting and training new employees increases.
What is so "specialized" about steering a mop? Have YOU had it with the BOSTON GLOBE BULLSHIT or what?
Even when an outside candidate might technically be a better match for a position, a current employee already understands a company's inner workings and has established relationships within the organization, Bump said. She speaks from experience, having recently redeployed the largest batch of workers in the department's 70-year history.
Last fall, 38 career counselors in the welfare-to-work program would have been laid off due to budget cuts, but instead they were reassigned to the state's unemployment insurance call centers, which needed 73 additional clerks to help the surging number of unemployed workers file claims. None of the former counselors took a pay cut. While the career counselors and new hires all needed a month of training, Bump said, the employees already on the state payroll had an advantage.
"They were already familiar with the system, and these were people who had already proven themselves as being successful with working with unemployed people, which is a stressful job," she said. By contrast, five claims takers hired from outside in December have already quit.
They DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
See: The Boston Globe Insults the Unemployed
What a piece of shit paper.
Long-term, redeployment could save the state and companies a lot of money.
You see?! The STATE and BUSINESS DO NOT CARE about YOU!!!! This as the state SHOVELS TAX MONEY at CORPORATIONS, ISRAEL, BANKS, and HOLLYWOOD!!
Recruiting and acclimating a new employee typically takes a year and costs 20 to 40 percent of that person's salary, said Aneil K. Mishra, a visiting associate professor of management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Yeah, now hiring new people costs you so don't do it. I'm insulted now!!!!
In addition to hurting employees' morale and productivity, layoffs also affect their commitment and trust, Mishra said. Redeployment, however, signals an organization values its workers, he said.
This is really, really making me ill.
"Crafting this message of hope is so critical for the survivors," Mishra said. "That becomes the essence by which you're going to be able to turn the organization around."
Yeah, BULLSHITTING EMPLOYEES is a MESSAGE of HOPE!!!
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And as if that were not insult enough....
CHICAGO - After getting pink-slipped from his cement-plant job a week before Christmas, Nick Maloney indulged in some moping.
For a week or two, the 27-year-old from Fairborn, Ohio, watched television, played video games, and slept until noon. Then he began to consider more meaningful ways to spend his newfound downtime: volunteering....
Yup, PICK up the SLACK for NO PAY, 'murkn!! Man, you just love chomping down shit, don't you?
He is now considering making his volunteer job permanent....
(Blog author is incredulous! Why would he want to get paid for work, shit-shoveling MSM?)
Nonprofit groups around the country are reporting record-setting volunteer interest, helped in part by high unemployment that has given people more free time and resume gaps to fill.
I'm really sick of the insults, as if BEING UNEMPLOYED is a GOOD THING!! Only when it comes to SHIT NEWSPAPERS and SHIT REPORTING such as this, folks!
Charity groups also attribute the rise to President Obama's call to community service and a general sense of wanting to help others through tough economic times.
The Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that tracks volunteer numbers, does not have statistics from the most recent months. Typically volunteer ranks shrink in a recession, but an estimated 1 million people participated in January's Martin Luther King Day of Service, twice as many as in 2008, said spokesman Sandy Scott.
TAXPAYERS are PAYING for THAT, too?
His group and others are seeing evidence of a volunteer surge....
Like the IRAQ SURGE that "won" the war?
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Of course, there is always the PUBLIC SERVICE Obama wants you compel you to do. Notice how the paper or government never tell you HOW MUCH $$$ they are going to pay you for your service? That's because it's about a $4,000 dollars a stipend. Can you live off $4,000 dollars a year?
Talk about pauperizing population!
WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of Americans could see more opportunities to mentor children, help rebuild homes, and participate in other national service under a measure passed by the House yesterday.
We want JOBS!! Good-paying jobs that MAKE THINGS!!!
The House voted, 321 to 105, to expand AmeriCorps and other national service programs by 175,000 participants. It would also create new groups to help poor communities with education, clean energy, health, and services for veterans.
While TRILLIONS of YOUR TAX MONEY goes for WARS and to BANKS!!!!
Supporters say the effort comes at a time when more people are interested in serving their communities and more people could use the extra help..... The House measure would also create fellowships for people 55 and older and a separate Summer of Service program for middle and high school students.
They are going to make the ELDERLY SERVE, too, huh?
Haven't OLD PEOPLE DONE ENOUGH? Shouldn't they just be TAKEN CARE OF rather than INDUCED to CONTINUE WORKING, 'er, "volunteering?" What kind of country are we, anyway?
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Update:
The continuing insult is a two-fer, since I wouldn't have posted this without buying a paper. I caved again, readers. A FRONT-PAGE FEATURED SPECIAL!!!!!
.... They represent a small, creative offshoot of the nationwide trend that has seen some of the recently unemployed reinvent their careers, often in occupations they find more rewarding, if less well compensated.
Yeah, money is only for special interests, the well-connected, wars and banks.
While some of the newer performers are talented musicians, others display a command of their instruments and voices that is rudimentary at best. They are all living a dream - even if they do not always get paid much....
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Yup, BEGGING down at the T station is now a HAPPY CAREER!!
Have you had enough elitist insults from the agenda-pushing paper, readers, because I have.
