Kumbaya - not so much - and for good reason Posted: Aug 26th, 2016 - 8:24 am In Reply to: The string of posts below this on trashing AHDI and credentialing for CMT/CHDS - Someone who cares
You are putting way too much effort into trying to adjust poster attitudes. With what is happening to MTs and the financial stress that some are experiencing, it is no wonder that this is a sensitive subject. It is very difficult to get behind an organization that every year increases costs and bombards our emails with happy cr&p emails and pictures of their conventions and other events. Yet they do nothing to help US MTs. They just want us to renew our membership, get certified, go to their conventions and act as if there is nothing tragic happening. These are things that MTs living on the edge of poverty are resentful of and they feel that AHDI is just an extension of the megacorporations that are driving down MT earning capability and respectability.
The anger seen on this thread has little to do with those who have CMT. They earned it probably at a time when it carried some weight. The point now is that it isn't reasonable to pursue CMT PRESENTLY,because it doesn't help when the megacorporations that are the majority now have set rates and CMT standing doesn't change that. The employers that may recognize what a CMT is and would pay more are vanishing if they aren't already gone. It also just doesn't make logical sense to pay hundreds of dollars for a test and cert for a job that pays at best a little over minimum wage. AHDI knows this and they have long since turned their attention overseas to maximize THAT profit potential in the short run, and that has further eroded the US MT situation financially and in terms of morale.
By all indications, AHDI is following the money and not acting in the best interests of MTs. If they were just a benign organization that wouldn't be a problem, but they hold themselves out to the world as being a knowledge base and authority on MT issues,and as such have a moral responsibility to act in the best interests of the MT and not selfishly in their own financial interests.
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