What ever happened with the CEOs threatening to fire people if Obama was re-elected?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by likwid

we have now seen an example of HR running the company instead of being a service of the company as it should be.

I sincerely hope you aren't saying that I provided an example of HR "running the company". I said HR is called in if there is an issue which requires HR expertise.

I work for a commercial lines insurance company.

If HR ran my company, we would be in serious trouble.. They handle the HR work - benefits, consulting on hiring and firing (making sure all laws are followed), all the pointless BS training like sexual harassment, etc...

I work smack in the middle of our business side of things, and I have almost no interaction with HR unless there is an issue which requires their expertise. If all the supervisors in the business were experts on all the labor laws, we wouldn't need an HR department, would we?

The folks in HR are not required to pass actuarial exams, nor are they required to know how to do the SQL programming for our data syatems...we have subject matter experts that handle that. Along those lines, actuaries are not required to be well-versed on labor law. I know not to pat the girls on their fannies for a job well done...

[scottw]

probably a reading comprehension issue or not "paying attention"... more irony...too funny

still waiting for the names of the CEO's who said they'd fire people if Obama was re-elected.... there are examples of companies laying off right after the election which include Murray Energy and others who attribute the layoffs to the continuation of administration policies, there is certainly downsizing and layoffs and reduction in hours to compensate for Obamacare implementation...maybe the CEO's are waiting to see the President's Budget, which is nearly 2 month late...again...

let's see, NCAA Brackets..............check
Golf with Tiger Woods....check
Schedule Beyonce for wife's birthday.....check

budget......"ain't nobody got time for that"


a couple of good articles regarding the jobs data and reality...

A Gallup survey released the day before the Labor Department’s report noted:
Although fewer people are unemployed now than a year ago, they are not migrating to full-time jobs for an employer. In fact, fewer Americans are working full-time for an employer than were doing so a year ago, and more Americans are working part time.....An editorial in the New York Times successfully saw past the rosy surface numbers reported on Friday as well. It looked around at where job growth might come from. Housing? Some growth there, from a percentage basis. But when one is at the bottom, everything looks up from there. Car sales? Not so much. Rising wages? Not much help there either.

The Times also noted that the labor force is shrinking, so that whatever numbers the BLS reports aren't real:

Most of the decline [in unemployment] reflects a shrinking labor force rather than new hiring. In fact, if hiring were more robust, the unemployment rate would hold steady or even rise as the estimated four million Americans who are not working or looking for work rejoined the ranks of job seekers, where they would be counted in the official unemployment rate.

Furthermore, those who have been out of work for six months or more actually increased last month. If the economy were healthy, surely that number would be declining.



http://www.thenewamerican.com/econom...rs-aren-t-real


Mar 21, 2013, 3:02pm EDT

The truth about today's jobs numbers: Massachusetts is treading water

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/bl...ent-truth.html

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

let's see, NCAA Brackets..............check
Golf with Tiger Woods....check
Schedule Beyonce for wife's birthday.....check

budget......"ain't nobody got time for that"

I'm not sure how Obama gets away with that...rubbing elbows with the swells (as long as they are liberal swells) while letting SS and Medicare continue their march towards bankruptcy.

[justplugit]

While your at it, what ever happened to all the Hollywood elites that were
going to move out of the country if Bush got elected?

[buckman]

Originally Posted by justplugit

While your at it, what ever happened to all the Hollywood elites that were
going to move out of the country if Bush got elected?

They decided to stay in America but move out of California to avoid taxes instead !
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[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by buckman

They decided to stay in America but move out of California to avoid taxes instead !
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Yeah, now they're screwing up Colorado.