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Greetings Everyone,

This is Big Dog writing again from the Lonestar State. I am so glad that I have found F This Job since it serves as a sounding board and also therapeutic escape. Hats off to the blog related to Interview questions that I hate-I almost peed myself especially the first response regarding why you want the job-lol!!!!!!

Anyway enough of my rambling and shouts out to the peeps. I want to illuminate a nasty little creature perpetuated by the "plantation owners" who run corporate america known as the stable work history, no job jumpers, no jumpy resumes...etc etc you get the picture.

On the surface this request sounds quite plausible and and logically makes sense. Yet when you dig beneath the surface you realize the sham. How can they expect to find stable work histories when the corporate world creates jumpiness on a daily basis? How many layoffs have occured in the past 6 months? Downsizings? Restructuruings? Re-Allocation of human capital (nice euphemism)? Moreover, where is the loyalty anymore? Most major corporations (espcially in the service sector where I work) talk about wanting long term employees. The reality is however, that they are looking for cheap expendable labor. Labor that can be run through the meat grinder and spit out the other end.

I call the current tactics used by major service corporations the spaghetti principle-they get a large wad of pasta (in this case humans) throw the bunch against the wall and hope that something sticks. If nothing sticks-oh well they have warehouses full of pasta (in this case resumes) ready to go.

Stable work history ,no job jumping, give me a fucking break. In service land you are a veteran if you stay past 18 months. The average tenure is 6-12 months and then those corpses are thrown out in the garbage and a new specimen is brought into the environment. This cycle continues over and over again. (Note -this is how service based companies treat their employees-do not even get me started on the f'ing that takes place with their "valued customers" Vaseline based cavity screw is more like it.

And the poor college grads (or nearing grad)-I really feel for you. You take the job fairs at your campus at face value. And you fail to realize that the majority of companies there are merely wolves dressed in sheeps clothing looking for the next piece of meat to run through the grinder. The reality my grad friends is that many of those companies are revolving doors looking for cheap naive talent ready to conquer the world. They sell you that they are fortune 500, and show you flashy videos, and wine and dine you, and tell you that you will be a mid-level manager in 2 years-blah blah blah blah. Don't believe the hype. They do not want you long term-unless you "luck out" to be one strand of sphagetti that ends up sticking. Anytime that someone tries to "sell" you something in corporate America watch out-the cow paddies are flying.

Well, there you have my thoughts on stable work histories. Like many other seemingly logical notions in the gerbil world it wreaks of cow dung. Put on the boots, wade through the corporate fields, and escape from the barbed wire prison.

Until next time my F This Job Friends,
Big Dog