Shift Happens

I may be wrong, but I took this part that was included in the OP and applied it to situations I see in a few of the law firms I work for.

Several have outsourced their word processing departments to India. We get back documents with errors in grammar and syntax that spellcheck just doesn’t catch. A work force with a firmer (and longer practiced) grasp of English as spoken in America would do a better job, but TPTB have decided “saving money” is more important than the longer time it takes to complete the rounds necessary to get it right.

:rolleyes:

They aren’t qualified for the job just because they are hired to do it. I am not a carpenter, but if I get hired as a carpenter I don’t suddenly become a good carpenter.

Just because companies are uninterested in providing adequate customer service doesn’t make them qualified for the job.

5-4 Fighting That’s another fine example. No one cares about doing things well anymore. It’s only important that the shareholders get the most amount of money.

Yeah, the difference is, they fire you pretty quickly. If they don’t–if instead they fire a lot of people just like you, and make a million bucks by doing so–it quickly become apparent that they’re not hiring you to be a carpenter.

Whatever these folks are hired for, they’re apparently qualified for, given how profitable the companies hiring them find the move. You may not like that, but them’s the breaks.

Shitty analogy, by the way!

Daniel