[VaSteve]

I agree, but where does that leave us? It's a slippery slope. What says that those people NEED to work in THAT factory? Human beings are infinitely adaptable.... Transferable skills will transfer.would the money spent on this be better spent on training for jobs of the future?

I recently took a job (as a professional) in a place where one of my direct reports told me that most of the people on the team wouldn't be able to survive outside the organization...despite being professionals themselves. They have let their skills atrophy.

In college, I was working as an accounting clerk in a company doing a re-org. Just before I graduated, they left go of about fifteen 20-year vets. People who had been with the company for their whole career. They had to set them up with job training and stuff like that. They couldn't leverage their skills to get into another company....at that pay I guess. Since I knew that no company was going to take care of me, I knew that I needed to ensure my skills are always sharp.


This is a tough jam....I'm glad it's not my problem to solve.