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[Anda]

I've let him know that I'm not happy and I'll be seeing someone next week that wants me to teach at a company. Today I've been organizing my apartment to be able to teach a few private students. Talking to a brick wall does no good, it is better to go around it and that is what I am doing.

If William Wallace was to go in and see the principal where he was and tell them he wanted more hours and pay do you think he would be successful. It is no good making a lot of noise at where you�re at until you have something lined up to replace it with, then there is no point in making a noise because you are leaving. You only have to say when you leave that you got a better offer. If students complain when you leave and student numbers drop then you have made your point.

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[Anda]

To support what I am saying about those in power etc going for cheap labor with no regard to quality.

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TerriHaute
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http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=297028

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonas Parker
Is Big Pharm just naturally stupid or Machiavellian?

To answer your question in a word: yes.

Having recently retired after working for big pharma for several years, I think the answer is greedy. Big Pharma is just plain greedy. It is all about the bottom line. And it is only getting worse. Pricing is just part of it.

Not only are pharma manufacturing operations being moved offshore, so are most other areas: research, clinical trials, and IT (lots of data to manage) to name a few. Everything else remaining in the states, like sales, legal, some research and manufacturing, and local IT support, is being outsourced to contract firms or "partners." Full-time American workers are too expensive, they expect competitve salaries and benefits. Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Indians, not so much.

Get this: one of the research chemists that sat near me before I left, told me that all of his group's work (he was kept, others in group let go) was being done in China now. But...the company doesn't trust the Chinese not to steal the information gained. So they send 7 or 8 experiments over to be run in China but are really only interested in the results of one. They just don't tell the Chinese which experiment is the important one. The chemist went on to tell me that the quality of the work coming back from China is so poor, that he has to put in overtime to bring it up to FDA standards. He said, "If I turned in this kind of work, I'd be fired." Even with all that, it is cheaper for the company to do it that way, so they don't really care how much extra work has to be done. They want the workforce to be as cheap and expendable as possible in order to keep profit margins high.

Think about that the next time you fill a prescription.