Training – foolishly speaking

Everyone is superficially speaking or foolishly speaking about training as the panacea for all the ills of unemployment. Training, training and acquiring new skills, skillfuture training, or whatever training, are the solutions to the woes of PME unemployment. Really? There is always something new to train for and to learn from. So telling someone to go for training cannot be wrong. Asking an old dog to learn new tricks also cannot be wrong.

There are things like frivolous training, unnecessary training, wasteful training, mismatch training, training for the sake of training and training all for nothing. Whenever a PME loses his job, the answer, send him for training. Training for what, to do what? Does anyone want to know why the PME lost his job? Obsolescence or something else?

Why send a PME who was working effectively as a logistic manager, a marketing manager or whatever manager for more training, in unrelated field, in redundant trades, to downgrade, to be a nurse, a waiter, or a cook or a cleaner? Is the path of being replaced and terminated be one of downgrading or the end of everything?

What was the reason for him or her to lose the job? Could not perform or simply being replaced by a younger person, a cheaper person, a relative or a cousin of the one in power? Who is ultimately responsible for the demeaning and destruction of our talented PME workforce? Who allows this irresponsible trend to continue unabated, taking no action and allowing it to become a permanent feature in our employment scene? Who allows the PMEs to lose their means of earning a decent living and to live with some dignity? Someone must answer for this. It did not happen without the concurrence and approval of someone.

Were the skills of the replaced PMEs still relevant? Could a little upgrading training be sufficient to remain in the job? Or actually no training was needed. He was just being replaced though he could still do the job. Why couldn’t he remain in the same profession with the skills and experience acquired over tens of years? Is the profession no longer needed in the economy? To retrain an experienced professional in another low grade trade is a waste of his talent/experience unless that profession is no longer needed?

How many professions are no longer needed in the economy? Why simply ask a PME to be trained to do something else when his job was simply taken over by a younger person who might not even be able to do better than the incumbent? And worst, a foreigner that came from nowhere to take his jobs at the expense of our very own citizens. Is the Govt very happy with this situation, abandoning its own local talents to bring in people from God knows where that the Govt has not an ounce of responsibility to provide them with a job? Why is the Govt providing 500,000 good jobs to foreigner and allowing our PMEs to become taxi drivers or be redundant and waste away, and breaking up their families or affective the lives of his families?

What is this nonsense about training for new skills when the old skills are still relevant and needed in the industry? Why retrain a professional to a lowly paid manual job when he can still be employed in the same job if the leg open wide wide policy is not foolishly applied to bring in all the animals from all over the world to replace our still able and willing to work PMEs?

What is all this silly talk about training and acquiring new skills? Would one ask a doctor or engineer or a lawyer or a teacher to be retrained as a cleaner or a waiter because a cheaper doctor, engineer, lawyer or teacher can replace him?

What is happening? Every PME cannot find a job in his previous profession and has to become taxi driver or security guard? This is mismanagement of talent at the worst. Totally irresponsible and unforgiveable.