Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employees are in the five lowest grades, and more than four-fifths finish their careers in the same grade as they started. The Post Office has difficulty holding on to personnel, suffering an annual turnover of 23%. Yet because of red tape, it takes at least 13 weeks to hire a new employee; two-thirds of the applicants do not wait that long...
...utilities currently hire blacks at about half the rate of other American businesses. In February 1970, that meant that the national utility work force was 4.8 per cent black. Even these few workers were distributed in a grotesquely skewed fashion. While less than 300 of the industry's 80,000 officials and managers (less than one-half of one per cent) were black, fully one third of the janitorial and unskilled-laborer staff was made up of black workers...
...bureaucracies that have a knack for creating headaches, few can match the Internal Revenue Service. In the name of efficiency, it changed the income tax forms this year, making them so complicated that millions of Americans for the first time will have to give up and hire tax specialists. Sample instruction: "If line 15a is under $5,000 and consisted only of wages subject to withholding and not more than $200 of dividends, interest and non-withheld wages, and you are not claiming any adjustments on line 15b, you can have IRS figure your tax by omitting lines...
Some inefficiencies may have to be tolerated simply because they make life more human. A labor shortage that inspires employers to hire ghetto blacks and other handicapped people instead of leaving them to subsist on public welfare is a good thing, whatever inefficiencies it may breed. Goof-off time feeds inflation by lowering productivity ?and nobody should underestimate what social damage that can cause. But one of the charms of the affluent society is that it indulges the human propensity to loaf and gives at least partial fulfillment to the Industrial Revolution's old promise that the machine will...
Even if you are willing to work twice as hard as any man, it is untrue unless you can 1) hire a more economically oppressed woman to do your shit-work for you 2) work out some kind of communal arrangement (difficult in most communities where people still adhere religiously to their notions of family privacy) or 3) make your husband or man share equally in tasks like cooking, cleaning and child-caring (I defy the wives of most "emancipated" men to tell me this is easy...