Who’s fixing YOUR computer?
I hear a lot of about “re-training” people that have been sacked from their jobs. What exactly are they being “re-trained” to do? Is this it… fixing up broken down computers? Or maybe it’s waiting tables at the local Outback Steakhouse.
The future of America. I remember in the early nineties when these courses started popping up all over Ontario for those of use unfortunate enough to finish school in those years. I also remember the one school in Kitchener repeatedly getting busted for less than above the board business practices. Go in for PC repair come out doing general labour for a dime over minimum wage.
The tories are in power, 90210 is on TV and we’re in a nasty recession. If only I could be 18 again.
I put the question out there in a facetious way, but I meant it quite seriously. What does “re-training” actually mean? Everyone seems to accept that term without much thought, but maybe we should be asking our politicians whether there’s any real substance to this palliative band-aid offered up as way of addressing the problem of unemployment and the decline of the manufacturing sector that’s been steadily collapsing on both sides of the border for the past 30 years.
Often re-training seems to mean nothing more than getting your high school diploma. Then you’re on your own out there with your new skills to find a livelihood. To paraphrase Diane Finley: we dont want to make it easy on job seekers. /sarcasm.
Retraining, wanting to make it hard on job seekers: I truly wonder if any of these people have ever lost a job (or had a job looking at some of our MP’s CVs)
Put them all on welfare for two months and have them report back on how much fun that “free ride” is…
yeah or create some brilliant idea like workfare without thinking of the jobs that will be lost by such short sightedness.