Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Sitting on both sides of the interview table, for the last few years I’ve been left wondering about this…
A recent report on the Lehigh Valley’s job market says a growing number of local companies complain that would-be employees lack basic professionalism.
Among other trends, the report says some companies must weed through ”an extremely large number of applicants” to find suitable workers, and feel there’s a need to teach ”appropriate” work habits at an earlier age.
”We call them soft skills,” said Nancy Dischinat, executive director of the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, which prepared the report with Pennsylvania CareerLink Lehigh Valley. ”Getting to work on time, continuing with your education, and an understanding that work is work.”
Our irrational fascination with formal education over-and-above technical background, confuses me a lot more after people try to explain it to me than before they so try. I expect to hear a lot of explanation regarding how this-job or that-job requires things to be done a certain way, how things might look at first glance that they were done right, but if the implementer isn’t trained, something will come unhitched or untied and get someone killed.
But that isn’t what’s explained to me at all. I keep hearing about how diplomas, certs and other credentials show you have the “drive” to do…and then what follows is a lot of stuff that in my world, people should be doing anyway. Stuff like what Ms. Dischinat is itemizing above.
Even as schools say they’re doing more to prepare young people for jobs, though, [Mike] Bunner [who runs Electro Chemical Engineering and Manufacturing] said he’s not noticed any real improvement. “We’ve been dealing with this for a long time,” he said. “It’s only getting worse. It’s not getting better.”
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