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[David Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

> I think as long as there is a "new market" jobs can be shipped to
> (India, etc.), companies will continue to treat their workers like  
> dirt.
>
> Smart companies treat their people right.  I've not run into very many
> smart companies.
>
> --[Lance]
>
> Well, I think that is true for public companies especially.  The  
> company exists because of and for the shareholders, not the  
> employees.  It sucks, it really does, but that is the way business  
> is run.  If a public company doesn't gain every market advantage  
> over it's competitors the bottom line will suffer, the shareholders  
> will get angry and the board will be voted out in favor of a board  
> that will send jobs overseas, etc.

Don't think for a second that things are any better in the university  
sector.  (Maybe if you are a tenured professor, but there are 1,000+  
other wage slaves who don't get that royal treatment.)  From Greg's  
paragraph above, just replace 'shareholders' with 'students' and  
'market advantage' with 'whatever the students and their parents are  
bitching about' and you have the exact same scenario.