I guess we are not alone

[hunkerdown]

this is a piece from the Globe and Mail...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o ... le7127403/

From Seth Godin, the best-selling author and ‘Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age’ describes the importance of making yourself indispensable.

The salient point is;

...The fact is that today, any type of work that can be done ‘by the book’ can easily be moved to someone who will do it for cheaper. And companies have to do this, because the competition is doing the same thing – there is this ‘race to the bottom’ going on. What this means to the modern worker is one of two things: either you need to accept the fact that you are part of the race to the bottom – which isn’t good, because you just might win; or you need to do work that cannot be written down in a manual. If the work you do is work that only you can do, that creates scarcity, which is the goal in the modern workplace. What needs to be done at the business school level – and at the elementary and high school levels – is to spend way more time helping people develop unique skills and not worry so much about making them be compliant and able to do a bunch of things on a checklist...

If you read the whole article you will see that he is talking about companies in general. It would appear that we are not alone.

[EA757]

Until you kill someone.

[Morav]

Another problem is the low training standard accepted amognst ourselves. It'd be nice to see training in general made more difficult.
I am talking here about type specific training. However, most people believe they have a god given right to work for X company once hired.

[aerie]

Unfortunately, despondency is not isolated to aviation, every industry has its issues.

[watermeth]

Another problem is the low training standard accepted amongst ourselves.

the last guy I heard saying that died in his first engine failure...