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This is pretty standard, isn't it? Actually it's a fairly recent invention. It only seems "standard" if one has no recollection of a time and a place (not so
by kafkaesq 9y ago
This is pretty standard, isn't it?
Actually it's a fairly recent invention. It only seems "standard" if one has no recollection of a time and a place (not so far back) when outsourcing (and the systematic discounting of blue collar workers, generally) wasn't nearly as prevalent as it is today.
They may be working at Facebook, but they work for their own company.
We all acknowledge that that's the way things (technically) are. What's at issue is whether that's the way they ought to be.
And the extent to which, while it may be technically correct that these people are working for different companies... on a deeper, more fundamental level -- it's just a big gimmick.
- tyingq 9y agoI worked for an office cleaning company in 1983. Contracting things like on site food facilities, security, building maintenance, and janitorial isn't new. Maybe the spread of how popular it is vs in house has changed, but it isn't new.
- kafkaesq 9y agoIt isn't "new" of course, but it's been greatly, greatly expanded. Back around that time, if you considered, say a school district... it'd be nearly a given that most of those people were employees of the school district. Nowadays? Practically the opposite. So I guess what I was trying to say was, while it isn't new, it's become so common that one could say that things have basically "tipped". And it's the idea that this state of affairs is somehow "standard" -- is what's the invention.