[Hallicrafters] Nobody wants to be a "technician" anymore

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

In all fairness, employeers no longer offer prospective employees any 
incentive to become highly skilled. Most businesses hir less skilled, if 
skilled at all, employees and pay them a very minimal wage. Look around. 
There are hundreds of thousands of highly trained, very skilled and 
experienced American employees working for the federal minimum wage because 
businesses will not hire them. Why? It costs them too much to employ 
educated and/or skilled and/or experienced people. It is "all" about that 
bottom line Tom. Keep the stock holders happy, regardless of what it does to 
the health of the company, the future of their products and the lives of 
their employees.

Why should American workers care? They have already learned, much to their 
dismay and financial ruin, that companies show employees no commitment or 
consideration. If American businesses want dedicated workers, then these 
companies need to show them that the company is there to work with them as a 
team and not just to exploit them.

People can say whatever they wish about the late Howard Hughs, but his 
companies were 'never' owned by stock holders! This man did more for America 
then the vast majority of us realize, thanks to the countless tales told 
about him. Yes he was mentally ill, he had Obcessive Compulsive Disorder, 
unheard of in the thirties through the sixties. The drugs he was given for 
the serious injuries he received in two aircraft crashes and one auto crash, 
possibly more, needed the administration of pain killers for his very 
survival. Unfortunately, the narcotics, all prescription pain killers are 
narcotics, accentuated his OCD!

What Howard Hughs contributed to this country is mind boggling if one looks 
at all of the inventions, modifications to existing technology and new roads 
that he blazed.

Unlike most businesses today, he was not afraid to take a risk. When a 
company sits upon its past glory days, it soon becomes a memory! When a 
business sits on its hands and plays it safe, it is soon left in ruins by 
other companies who actively pursue aggressive marketing.

Don't fault the American workers Tom, owners of most of the businesses in 
this country stole their pension funds, cheated them out of their retirement 
benefits and exploited them at every opportunity. Why should expect them to 
be happy?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:35 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Nobody wants to be a "technician" anymore


> I'm in the commercial fire-alarm business, and as such, have found, along
> with my competitors, that finding technicians (ANY technicians) who have a
> grasp of simple electronics and the usage of a multimeter, to be nearly
> impossible these days.  I personally witnessed one so-called
> "technical-representative" (from a Major company) come up to an earlier
> "hard-wired" (non addressable) fire panel, and get totally frustrated,
> because he could'nt find the "plug in for the laptop".
>
> We've raised an entire generation of folks who think that the world is run
> with a keyboard, and haven't a clue of how to use DEDUCTIVE REASONING for
> problem solving.  The electronics stores are just the outward "sore" - the
> true disease lies beneath the skin, I'm afraid.
>
> Tom - WØEAJ
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