Gibbs career training careers you to disaster
16/09/07
The advert on TV from Gibbs, the career people, has a horrifying message, I think.
"Don't want to go to college for 2 years to retrain for a new career? Try a Gibbs training course to become a health care professional in 6 weeks.
Look at the lady at the desk in the background. Yes, that poor little bored thing has just finished our indepth 6-week training course, and now look at her. She thought she was training to become an anal temperature checker and wet bed changer. We would have none of that here. Thanks to our specialist training program, she is completely revitalised and professionally inputting data 6 days week plus Sundays at time and a half of one percent. Life is good for her, thanks to Gibbs."
Another advert promises rich rewards in the field of security.
"Hey, got a baseball bat and a size 12 fist? We have some great job prospects for you, right now.
Forget going to college to learn psychology, man management and security issues, try Gibbs 3-day training course. By going the Gibbs route, you can be a high-flying security guard at your local mall before the weekend.
Free uniform, $500 boots repayable at 43% monthly compound interest, and check small print for details on fast food allowances, back-handers to shoplifters and free membership to a fitness clinic that is never open when you finish your 15 hour 7 days a week shift."
Act on the Gibbs ads and retrain with them at your peril.
"Hey, impressionable disenchanted viewer, that lucky employee smiling to the camera could be you. Break the cycle of no job and no education and no prospects. Forget college. Forget proper training. Indepth knowledge is for pussies. Here at Gibbs, we can fast track you to the bottom rung of a very long ladder. We don't want you too qualified, else how could we use and abuse you and threaten you with loss of job security.
You know it makes sense to cut corners and just get a job, any job. The Government also love us for all we have done to clear the streets of wasters. We relocate desperate folks off the streets and into open plan soulless work environments regulated by piped muzak and thinly veiled contempt."
After completing a 4 year degree, I too say, forget college. Ignore the rule of the thumb, that more you put in the more you get out. Go the 21st century route. Invest nothing and get almost nothing back, except a new job title and a short cut to a credit card and the hell that follows. Gibbs know best.
Health care professional
"Don't want to go to college for 2 years to retrain for a new career? Try a Gibbs training course to become a health care professional in 6 weeks.
Security
Another advert promises rich rewards in the field of security.
"Hey, got a baseball bat and a size 12 fist? We have some great job prospects for you, right now.
Forget going to college to learn psychology, man management and security issues, try Gibbs 3-day training course. By going the Gibbs route, you can be a high-flying security guard at your local mall before the weekend.
Free uniform, $500 boots repayable at 43% monthly compound interest, and check small print for details on fast food allowances, back-handers to shoplifters and free membership to a fitness clinic that is never open when you finish your 15 hour 7 days a week shift."
The hard sell
Act on the Gibbs ads and retrain with them at your peril.
"Hey, impressionable disenchanted viewer, that lucky employee smiling to the camera could be you. Break the cycle of no job and no education and no prospects. Forget college. Forget proper training. Indepth knowledge is for pussies. Here at Gibbs, we can fast track you to the bottom rung of a very long ladder. We don't want you too qualified, else how could we use and abuse you and threaten you with loss of job security.
You know it makes sense to cut corners and just get a job, any job. The Government also love us for all we have done to clear the streets of wasters. We relocate desperate folks off the streets and into open plan soulless work environments regulated by piped muzak and thinly veiled contempt."
Conconclusion
After completing a 4 year degree, I too say, forget college. Ignore the rule of the thumb, that more you put in the more you get out. Go the 21st century route. Invest nothing and get almost nothing back, except a new job title and a short cut to a credit card and the hell that follows. Gibbs know best.
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