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?
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.
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.
“employees can get ground down in low-paying, demanding roles”, such as Fed Ex drivers, young lawyers, adjunct teachers, and lumber mill workers.
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.
This is the Big 4s business model. E&Y, PWC, Deloitte, KPMG...if you’ve ever worked with them, they work in teams. There will be one or two probably mid 30s types leading team and the rest are 1-4 years out of college. The pay isn’t that great. They send them to whatever city the project is in and they work the bejeezus out of them.
They know that because of their name/cache they will have no problem getting more bright young college grads dying to work for them no matter how quickly they burn through the workers they have.
The people celebrating hazing of ne grads are complaining no one wants to work.
Apple was/is one of the worst. Knew a guy that interviewed there and when he asked about retirement benefits, they ended the interview immediately. Said they weren’t interested in people thinking about retirement.