Problems get solved when the truth is known; since the Johnson years, corporations have manipulated the workplace process to maintain control over hiring, that has not always played out as ethical practice. by EmilyCragg
(libertarian)
Monday, May 3, 2010
Reflecting on my experience versus what I see in the Government workplace at present, I grew up in a family business, hiring and letting semi-skilled workers go as they were needed and found competent. My parents had me learn almost every task/function in the wholesale dry cleaning business; and when my father took ill I had to become Cal State licensed as the Operator of the plant. I've also had a retail business and a software development start-up, both of which lasted for a short time. Honesty has always the best policy because it works out; and Truth the best teaching tool because Truth is more efficient than confusion.
I got Baccalaureate and Masters degrees at a State university with a major in conflict resolution; and so my interest in foundational HR administration is experiential and theoretical. I also worked as industrial trainer and school teacher also, so I look at HR and administration from the perspective of an individual who is competent at and has done many different types of work in my working lifetime. Every job I ever did for any company involved telling the Truth rather than making up excuses.
Today it is excuses: "That's not my department," "I can only tell you ... this," and "Miss Smith will call you back momentarily" that dishonestly lack candor, but worse than that, they lack information and cause confusion.
Our government has become a "coverment." Telephone operators and department secretaries [and even legislative assistants] where they exist can't, won't and don't direct callers to knowledgeable professionals. Inquiries from the public are turned aside continually, even important and critical inquiries. Sincere calls and inquiries get blown off.
The employment resume lottery system as we know it was instituted for corporate hiring sometime after Pres. Johnson created hierarchical bureaucracy to assess whether racial discrimination was being practiced in workplaces; which of course it was. And so is age, gender, physical attributes and moral courage. The FACT that companies oversell job requirements [accept more applicants than they can respond to individually] in order to cherry pick only the most deferential candidates has made the resume lottery system one of great stress and travail for job candidates. It's as if in order to qualify to survive, one must win a lottery. This is not an honest way to do business in a responsible grown up world.
In a recent [[link edited for length]] Newsletter a veteran cop outlined ten valuable characteristics of military officers that directly transfer into police business; and I found this news very striking since what I know of education is that middle school textbooks don't include even ONE of those ten characteristics as topics or ideals to be taught to children. I know this from reading junior high textbooks while I substitute taught. Skills are not being imparted to our children through the Education grapevine, that will produce good and effective leaders and communicators in Government.
But what struck me and brought me here this morning was a picture, which I have loaded onto my server at [ [link edited for length] ].
These "officers" are defense contractor assassins and snipers, killers. What does professional killing have to do with honest police work? My understanding of the difference between city police and county sheriffs comes from a British video, 2 ten-minute segments by John Harris in the UK. Police are to be keepers of the Peace; and Statutory "Officers" only represent corporations. We ought to recognize the differences.
Law Enforcement is a problem-solving and conflict-resolving profession aligned with Government; it is not a profiteering exercise nor a shooting gallery for dysfunctional adults. Displaying government law enforcement as an opportunity to pursue violence is not an ethical practice. What is needed is for professional police must reflect honest and peace-able goals in government, by government, for the people.
The demand for a skill resume make upon workers in the workplace is not being matched by the practice of honesty, thrift and consideration by government agencies, elites and HR. We're not going to fix our political quagmire so long as lack of consideration, dogmatic thinking and functional dishonesty exist in the government workplace that serves Congress, the Judiciary and the Executive Offices.
Emily Cragg, BS, MA, webmaster, radio host and author
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