Corporate Potentates and Hogwash

Reuters Photo: AT and T CEO Randall Stephenson in San Francisco, October 19, 2007.

Corporate America is telling Americans they do not have the job skills, so the jobs are outsourced.  This is hogwash.  Americans are not hired to do the jobs or trained to do the jobs, because it is less expensive in many ways to outsource the jobs to a low wage country. 

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.

"We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located.

I laugh at Corporate America's whining about not being about to find qualified workers in America.  In addition, a worker unemployed and over 50 cannot get a good job in America.  Corporate America does not want to hire an older worker, regardless of the worker's qualifications.

May the Lord judge these Corporate potentates harshly on judgment day for their mean spirited attitude toward American workers.