| Speaking of being kicked out the door... The Nebraska call center has been working with temp agencies for over a year. Usually the employees are watched and based on how well they perform, hired on with the company full time. For over six months now they have not hired anyone and have just been building a temp pool. They did keep saying that they were going to start hiring again but I really didn't believe that. None of us knew THIS was coming though. In fact, when I found out about the closing I was sitting with a new temp who was in his last week of training. There have been no meetings for the temps, no official announcement. All that we know is that our last day is three weeks away. The way that they are preventing a complete walk out of the temps is to offer money for things like attendance and call quality to be paid on our last day. When people are facing unemployment they really cannot make a statement and walk out like that. Too bad huh?
The anger I feel isn't even about losing my job or losing the regular contact with people whose company I really enjoy. No, the anger is coming from ALL the stories about people losing their jobs to increase the profit margin, about having no choice but to buy goods and services from people who are all about the bottom line, sweatshops, corporate crime, corporate environmental practices, ENRON, war profiteering, monopolies and running mom and pop shops into the ground and out of business. It's about the expense of health care and the expense of higher education. The system is broken and we are no longer willing to put ourselves on the line to make this country worth fighting for again. |
