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What is wrong with our industry? Employers just come up with one silly idea after another - Bad business decisions affect them and us

Posted: Mar 24, 2011

I don't know where they get all of their silly ideas, one new, amazing idea after another. You would think they would look back at the last several silly ideas they've had that didn't work and use some common sense, but that doesn't happen.

It's always the idea to end all ideas, but those ideas never end well.

Just a vent.

It isn't just our industry. Business leaders just panic & do stuff, even if it's wrong - My Opinion

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There is no common sense these days. Don't even bother to look for it. You can see it happening everywhere in this economy. Things aren't going well, big-shots panic and bring in advisers who say to throw out everything and go another direction. They do that and it doesn't work, advisers change the advice to even worse advice, which is held up as the greatest thing ever, until it proves not to be. Sigh! I would love to see some common sense in business.

perhals clients are catching on to this and either goin VR - or hiring back inhouse? thinking clients not dens

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its gonna blow....

to finish--not dense to world around them - food for thought NM

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I keep seeing more and more placed hiring inhouse. - s/msg

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I keep seeing ads for inhouse MTs at a hospital that is one of my accounts. At the same time, there is talk that this hospital is not happy with the MTSO I work for, and I wouldn't be surprised if this hospital starts to bring most, if not all, of its work back on site.

I live foir the day...have been saying fore years it is the only - solution to this entangled mess. NM

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I think their motto is, "Do Something, Even If It's Wrong!" - Mindboggling sometimes

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Well, being fair, this is a terrible economy and I think they get scared, panic, and act out in fear. They think if they just change a few procedures here, change out a few people here, eliminate a few other old-and-tried principles here and replace them with a few new flaky ideas there, and everything will be fine. The economy will instantly recover and there will be peace on earth.

Also, the execs get paid for changing things - or to justify their existence

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I think a lot of the time they get bored. They also know that in order to keep their highly-paid positions, they have to do something.

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