Danger! Rant Ahead!

Labor Day is supposed to celebrate workers, but Dave will now show us how many in Congress view workers:

Dave is a House Of Representatives member “representing” Ohio. He looks like someone for whom working with his hands is limited to using a pen to endorse campaign checks from corporations. Dave recently said this at a local Chamber Of Commerce gathering:

“There’s 3 million jobs every month in this country that go unfilled…they either can’t find people to come to work sober, daily, drug-free, or want to learn the necessary skills going forward to be able to do those jobs.”

What Dave should have told the assembled businessmen is this: “There’s a reason companies like Costco have happy employees who don’t molest the food and post pictures of the violation online. It’s because they don’t suck to work for.”

When pressed by The Huffington Post for supporting data, Dave’s spokesman said that he was “relying on anecdotes from business owners”.

Lemme guess — he talked to people who run low-rent companies that pay poorly, humiliate their employees, and then wonder why they just can’t keep positions filled. You can just picture the exit interviews:

“You’re taking a job with our competitor that pays $10k more per year? Why? Our motivational seminars are so much better.”

“You don’t want to melt in a broiling warehouse while a power-hungry manager with a low IQ yells at you? What is wrong with you?

But Dave might not be totally off the mark. I know one employer where people don’t seem to “want to learn the necessary skills going forward to be able to do the job”– it’s called The House Of Representatives. Having a House member lecture Americans on their work ethic is like having Mayor Bob (On This) Filner tell you that you need to improve your interpersonal skills with women.

Whew! That was quite the rant. I’m starting think that I died in a factory fire in a previous life. But the moral of the story is simple. People who suck at their jobs (like Dave) will claim that you suck at your job to hide the fact that they suck at theirs.