Posted on 01/12/2023 6:42:09 PM PST by anthropocene_x
Some employers look to hire and continually turn over junior employees – sometimes harming young workers’ careers before they’ve even begun.
Experts say there are many employers that specifically hire new graduates looking to pursue their passions – often in competitive, even ‘glamourous’ careers. In some cases, this can be great for these workers, who are looking for a way into an industry of their dreams. Sometimes, however, young employees can get ground down in low-paying, demanding roles, as employers know that vacancies will always be hotly desired. These situations can leave early-career workers, hoping to establish themselves, making them vulnerable to burnout or disillusionment right at the start of their careers.
Some companies set up infrastructures in which they hire young employees that have little, if any, opportunity for upward trajectory, and then load them up with demanding tasks. In these situations, employers often expect that these young workers will leave the organisation at some point – whether it’s because they’re at a dead-end or they’ve burnt out from the position. Then, they are generally replaced by other young workers, destined for the same fate.
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I must be having deja-vu
Whine, whine, whine. Got my first job out of school and had zero expectations. Just happy to be there. Did the best I could. Left a few years later for greener pastures but grateful for the experience.
Disney, under Eisner, wrote the book.
If you are in the public’s eye, even a waiter, you are a cast member. And you audition for your position every 6 months. If you get older, fat, or otherwise unattractive, you just don’t pass the audition. But, hey, you are welcome to try again in 6 months.
Disney gets approximately 50,000 unsolicited requests for job applications a week. They can pick and choose.
There’s a lot of experience on FR. Isn’t it pretty normal for engineering and other kinds of firms to hire new graduates far in excess of their needs and then keep a limited number of the best ones a year or two later?
I know accounting firms would do that. It’s called “up or out”.
Hmmm... The BBC.
You don’t think the BBC doesn’t hire starry-eyed interns or people just out of J school, treat them like a rented mule, break their hearts until they quit on disgust?
Hmmm?
Learn to plumb
Most of these companies are from fields dominated by liberals. People are disposable to these wannabe-monarchs.
So you are exactly like the article and yet you say the young workers nodays are whiners.
Ok.
The hire and fire strategy can work ok in industries where a high degree of knowledge of company procedures are not needed.
However in many industries it is a recipe for disaster.
Where I work we keep people for decades. Quite a number of my co-workers have been around for over twenty years. This year makes twenty-two for me.
But our contractor is another story. Every year I have to fly 1,000 miles train new technicians to do contract manufacturing. And there is a steep learning curve. Matter of fact it is so bad that the manufacturing supervisor, the department supervisor, the technicians, the manufacturing engineer have all changed within a space of less than ten years. Some positions have turned over two or three times.
So every year the trek to the manufacturing site, about a year goes by and we get several lots of product, then the people quit and we start all over again. Not easy to find employees who know what they are doing; it’s a chemical process and most people are very averse to chemistry.
Sounds like Boeing. I lasted over twenty years and left for an Observatory job that worked the same way. I retired at age 55. Not everybody is cut out for technical work.
>> Got my first job out of school and had zero expectations. Just happy to be there.
Yep! I really wanted a job, any job, and was happy to have one. I EXPECTED to have to do drudge-work for awhile. I EXPECTED I’d have to prove myself. It’s just the way it was.
Same thing was true when I finished my military service and college and started my professional career.
In other words. The same old same old for thousands of years of human society remains the same. The young inexperienced people take crap jobs and quit after a while. Color me shocked.
One of my first jobs was pumping gas. I didn’t think to myself, “what a great career path to raise a family.”
No problem, I returned to retirement, looking forward to 4 months of unemployment, do some travel, etc. Two weeks later, a large real estate company gave me a call. In short order, I was hired in their tax department. Having a blast, great company, and it's run by adults.
A few weeks ago, I learned that my previous employer hired 3 accountants...to replace me...lol.
“employees can get ground down in low-paying, demanding roles”, such as Fed Ex drivers, young lawyers, adjunct teachers, and lumber mill workers.
You’re lucky. QuickBooks on line sucks like crazy. It’s clunky, lacks a lot of features, the cloud aspect means it doesn’t do anything fast, you gave to relog in after so many minutes, AND you no longer control your data, QuickBooks has it in the cloud.
Of course, if you insist on getting it back, they are happy to give it to you as a massive comma delimited file.
Intuit are a bunch of crooks. They are running a scam. I’ve been dealing with them for 25 years, and they are one of the most dishonest outfits I’ve had to deal with. I only use them because my clients buy the marketing lie that QBs will turn them into brilliant bookkeepers, so I need it to access their accounting.
I got a job at ATT (internet provider) in 1998. During training someone asked what is the turnover rate.
The trainer said 10% a month...
I looked around the room of about 30 and realized that no one would still be there for very long. I quit just 4 days in and got a job at Earthlink internet provider as they paid $1.50 more an hour.
About a year later ATT shutdown their call center and Earthlink hired a bunch of them. You could tell as the men came in wearing white shirts with ties and the women were dressed nice. Earthlink was very... casual so they stood out.
I was there for about 4 and a half years when they fired 3,000 people after merging with Mindspring.
They gave us 2 months noticed and said if you stayed till the end you would get extra money for the number of years plus paid for school for 1 year.
I stayed but did get a new job 2 weeks before closing that paid me $11,000 more to start : )
I remember a supervisor there on another team when informed of my new job said “YOU got a job?!”
I was at that new job for 18 years and 8 months and was able to retire due to stock I owned. I also got to come back to the office that was closed due to the illegal shutdown and pack up my stuff and talking with the few that were not still working from home.
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