Some interesting thoughts about jobs, especially Philippines Jobs and other overseas jobs and Americans who can’t wait to take one:
Meet Sam Palmisano, bozo of the month. We diss IBM’s CEO for allowing some management numbskull to suggest that the thousands of Big Blue employees who have been fired recently should consider a move to India. And work really cheaply. Always helpful, IBM is willing to pitch in with moving costs and — in a particularly ironic twist — visa assistance.
Yeah, it’s hard to believe. But IBM put it in writing: “IBM has established Project Match to help you locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand,” IBM says in an internal memo first obtained by InformationWeek. “Should you accept a position in one of these countries, IBM offers financial assistance to offset moving costs, provides immigration support, such as visa assistance, and other support to help ease the transition of an international move.” …
Maybe India’s not to your taste. No worries. IBM is also offering to send the newly unemployed to China, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates.
Pink slips at Big Blue
And in a touch that could only be called Dickensian, the IBM memo notes that Project Match, which sounds like a reality show on Bravo, is limited to “satisfactory performers who have been notified of separation from IBM U.S. or Canada and are willing to work on local terms and conditions.” Right. The worthy poor who don’t mind working for wages that are infinitely lower than what they’ve been paid in the United States.(For those who are considering a move overseas, check out InfoWorld’s guide to offshoring yourself.) … Read the rest of the report and observe more of the author’s faulty logic here.
I’m not going to go a lot further down this line here … my only purpose was not to make fun of the IBM’ers (and of course the people who depend upon them for jobs as well), but merely to point out that in today’s day and age, I think you people searching for a conventional j*o*b, especially with a larger, international company like IB are following the wrong career path.
photo credit: lrargerich No matter how “high end” the company you might latch onto is (hint, you don’t get much higher end than IBM) the world today is different. You do not have a job for life, and the management of the country, even if it is a company as “American as apple pie …. (hint: Again, what is more red, white and “Big” blue than IBM?),. the managers have the duty to keep the company alive for their stockholders and to turn a profit … keeping Americans employed is not one of the primary goals.
Here in the Philippines, although the recession has not yet had the income it has in the US, two major “flagship” foreign employers, Texas Instruments in Baguio and Intel in Cavite have recently closed. TI (they make autopilot components for several Boeing commercial aircraft) may come back to life if Boeing’s business picks up, Intel is gone forever, they are consolidating operations from this plant and 5 others in Asia to a new facility in Vietnam.
If you want advice from me (and some of you don’t, but if you read this far you will get it anyway 
, forget about trying to find a job in the Philippines, especially at a salary anywhere near what such jobs used to pay in the USA, and make yourself recession and layoff proof by starting your own business and being independent of grudgingly given charity like government handouts (oops, I mean bailout plans). The younger you are and the more family responsibilities you have, the better off you will be if you break the charity chain now rather than when you may be forced to later, no matter if you live in the USA or live in the Philippines.
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hi i am a retired army with 29 years experience in the army as HVAC i am wsondering if you have any jobs for me to the philippines because i am planning to go there on the january.. i can give you my resume so you can stream on my skills.. thank you god bless
Sorry Michael, I am not an employment agency. I publish articles about jobs for Americans here mainly to try to discourage them from looking for jobs here. I also publish directories and listings as they come to me. Jobs in the trades here, in particular, are just not practical for foreigners. An air con technician,(nobody here would know what the H in HVAC is supposed to mean) might get peaid 10 or 12 dollars a _day_, in a big city … and essentially no benefits, 6 day week, etc.
With 29 a 29 year US military retirement, you don’t need a job. This is one of the few places on earthj where a US service man can live on what the military ‘calls” a retiement and not need another job. On the other hand I know more than one retiree who doesn’t have enough income for one reason or another and mainatins a family here while he works in the US, or the middle east. You sure can’t get paid anything like US wages here.
HVAC means- Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Understood, Jim. I said that few in the Philippines would know what the “H” means … because we don’t use heat here. Thanks for dropping by.
Hi.Ihave been retired since last 2003 and am wondering if you you a job opening for me in the Phil.I am a retired military prio to my immigration here. Now that am A us Citizen.I can perform as Security or driver since I know places in Metro manila and suburbs.Thanks
Rudolfo, you’re welcome to comment here, but do take the time to look around and see what we are all about … this isn’t a ‘job service’ … although who knows, you might find someone here … I’m wondering, though, what do you think a driver/security officer ought to make here in the Philippines? Also, how long have you been in the US?
Hi Philly, been here in US for almost 19 years just asking for a job in Phil cause am already retired plus I want to relocate in PHIL. Thanks.
thanks philly for the advice.. i just want to be wiht my bride a gain soon… that is why im looking for a job in the philippines just temporarily while im waiting for my job in afghanistan and the immigration that will petitin her.. yap i seen that to they really dont know wha tis hvac and the way they do there buidings are way to different from us… god bless…
God bless you too, Michael, and I hope your journey works out well. One suggestion … and I hope you take it as a suggestion and not a criticism … is your phraseology and opinions.
When you post on public forums statements that “they don’t know what HVAC is”, you create a persona and a reputation for yourself that will last for years.
Many things are done differently in the Philippines((and they surely will be different in Afghanistan). But when you use ‘code words’ such as ‘they” and make blanket pronunciations regarding the country such as “they don’t know” … the words are almost cast in stone. They will live ‘on line’ for the foreseeable future.
As a relatively long-term resident here I think “they” know a LOT about HVAC … thank God too, as I don’t do well without it. My Philippine readership is the second highest number of folks here … it’s just sort of perhaps a silly thought of mine, but did you ever think how your words look to someone who might be thinking of hiring an HVAC technician? It would probably cause me to click on to the next applicant, myself. Also the explanation about how you only want the job for a short time certainly doesn’t inspire anyone to think about investing in you as an employee, again, in my view.
Just some thoughts from a guy who has recruited for a lot of jobs … and again, not meant as personal criticism, just a few thoughts about the whole process of job finding, especially online.