Anxiety and Worry

Dealing with society representatives like this women is what makes me anxious and causes me such problems

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Car Rentals, are you a luxury or economy Renter?

There are the economy class people and the luxury class people. This is the same with car rentals. Automobiles come in a variety of price points depending on your budget. Consider that if you’re on business and traveling with others from your company, a larger car or even a van rental may be much more economical than individual car rentals for each person.

Now I’m one of the economy class type of people and proud of it. I buy not the cheapest but also rarely the most expensive of almost everything. Still, when I rent a car, I enjoy getting something I would personally never purchase. If I’m staying over the weekend in a popular area, I might splurge and get a sporty car. Once, I was able to get a new Jaguar coming right off the truck! What a beautiful automobile to drive. Yes, it was a more expensive than I usually get but for that one weekend, it was all mine! I enjoyed the car even knowing the impracticality of owning it with my family size. Still, one day…..

Oh, and I paid the difference for the Jaguar over what the company I was working for would have paid for the other rental, just to let you know. If I had the same sense of values like the majority people in upper management, I would have rented the car for the whole week and charged it to the company, all the while working to layoff another worker, sending their job overseas.

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Big Business moves Call Centers

Big company executive are always telling us that outsourcing jobs from the United States is a good idea. These are the same people that told us outsourcing our manufacturing infrastructure was a good idea. We were told that our manufacturing people couple be retrained to use computers and work in technology focused areas like call centers. Then, big business went to call centers, moving them to other countries.

Call centers being closed were in the rustbelt of the Midwest with average wages in the Wal-Mart range. They were closed because even though the cost of telecommunications was much higher transferring a call half way around the world, the total cost per call was drastically lowered. Why? People in India with masters degrees and experienced engineers were happy to make 20-30 thousand dollars a year. So the cost per minute in the US was between 30-80 cents a minute, while in India the cost per minute was well under .15 cents.

Here’s the question I would put to short sighted corporate America… Who’s going to buy your products after you destroy the middle class in America? You can talk all your want about competition and the need to lower rates in call centers and other such stuff. You never say tough how we Americans can compete with countries without our environmental laws, or labor laws, or higher tax rates, or slave labor wages in third world countries.

The reason why these people are willing to work for such a small wage is also the reason why we have problems with Mexican illegal immigration. But that’s another story