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On August 11, 2006, I posted here about how my job may be eliminated (http://spicedogs.livejournal.com/6856.html). My position is being considered to be outsourced. That means that I would be either fired or hired by the commercial business that actually replaced my job. In other words, I and my colleagues would be employees of a consulting firm.
I know that a lot of people who are not involved with government and who tend to think of themselves as conservatives find the outsourcing system useful. Government workers are deemed to be lazy, nonproductive, and useless. Folks, I worked on all types of business: commercial, nonprofit, self-employment, freelance, and now government. Of all my jobs, this is where not only do I work hard, I am also very productive and extremely needed.
Outsourcing benefits only one entity: The consulting business to whom the work was outsourced. But my CEO, who is our president, loves business and made a mandate that lot of us would have to go. The government is spending too much money on our salaries. Some one has to pay for the Iraqi war.
If I am to be fired (or laid off), I will no longer be a productive, tax-paying member of the society. What good is that? If I am to be hired by the winner of the bidding war for my job, I will have my salary more than likely cut in half and the consulting firm will charge the government 5 times the amount that I would have received as a salary. How is that improving our spending?
Now, where am I going with this essay? I just read that the troubles that
Mr. President, please wake up and smell the coffee!
