A gene for rebelliousness?
June 23, 2006what’s next, a gene that could explain why i am so bad with math?
This article makes one think about how much we are actually in control over ourselves. Upon reading the article, something struck me about reading the statement “It’s the hand you’re dealt”. How very apt in describing the human condition and how genetics can actually make your life easier or harder.
It is in understanding how and why we are the way we are that will make the struggle to manage and compbat our imperfections easier.
which friend am i?
June 22, 2006
You’re a bit like Monica!
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the mess we’re in…
June 16, 2006
i live in cavite, an urbanized province that is also like an extension of metro manila. we have our own manufacturing business here. we employ people close to our community as possible, but the quality of work is very erratic each time we hire new people, and we would get bad batches of workers. we thought it was people being “pasaway”, or rebellious. it turns out that they are just hard in understanding basic instructions. we have an IQ test that is high school level, and sadly even those who finished high school couldn’t pass it. so we adjusted our IQ test, made it in a way a sixth grader could pass it. still people fail.
imagine how you’d react if one person answered that a bangus is an insect.
imagine how you’d react if one person couldn’t answer how much money you’d need in order to buy 4 candies worth 5 centavos.
my dad started our company to help out the people in his community. he believed, and instilled in me that the best help you can give to people is to give them job opportunities. he’s a proud caviteño through and through, so when he learned of this weakness, he felt really bad. to think he built a thriving business that can employ steadily hundreds of people, he couldn’t hire them permanently and help them. what if someone has an accident in our company because he wasn’t able to follow the safety instructions properly because he lacked the reading comprehension that schools are supposed to enhance? what if we lose our business because of people who keep on doing things the wrong way? reworks in our line of business are expensive and things like this would harm the reputation of our company, and we have rivals from other countries who would be very glad to get our client’s job orders. it is extremely important in our line of work that workers follow process to the letter, be creative and be able to think through a whole range of problems. we have had several incidences already in which people do not seem to use their common sense…not reading directions, not able to comprehend their supervisor’s instructions.
it leads me to think that there are jobs out there, heck, it’s not much to work in manufacturing or in factories, you still need some common sense and you still need some basic math and reading skills, most people shrug factory work as easy, or demaning, but it’s not. there is no such thing as an easy job, and even if there is, with the way our education system has been deteriorating, other jobs that are easier to do would be impossible to get into, because people’s brain would turn into useless mush.
the mess we’re in is that we’ve got too many uneducated, poor people we can’t empower through jobs. if they do, chances are they drop out of work and the factory is left with statistics of high employee turnover. they can’t get into jobs through local factories which contributes to the gdp growth of our country, thus attracting our foreign investors to create better quality jobs for the middle class so that these people would stop going abraod and finally end the brain drain the we are experiencing.
now saying that proper education is the backbone of a country is an understatement. saying that we need proper education as much as we need food and water is also an understatement. this world is getting to be too complicated to live on that our people need something to arm themselves with, or they’re dead and useless.
furthermore, proper education should not be limited to the middle-class or the rich. they won’t be the ones working in offices or being employed in factories where good IQ is an asset. with the exodus of those with better education to other countries, who will fill the desks of offices, callcenters, schools, factories and other businesses?
the exodus of the better-educated has robbed most industries like us of thinking, capable workers. nowadays, it is slim pickins for the hr people in industries like ours. we are left picking the lesser-educated and ignorant of our race. i don’t like to say they are ignorant, bumbling idiots, but they are and it isn’t their fault. it’s the fault of horrible education system and the trapos who refuse to change the system.
sadly, the poor is the most prevalent group in this country, and they also have the most number of children. when these children grow, they will be the ones whom our businesses will employ.
we’re definitely been left behind in the race towards progress, and you wonder why, then shake your head in disappointment when you suddenly remember why.
POLITICIANS.
