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Retaining "experienced and reliable workers" will become a core business strategy for all employers.
1 posted on 03/04/2006 5:30:05 PM PST by 2Jim_Brown
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To: 2Jim_Brown

They don't like older workers? That's not very tolerant of Silicon Valley.


2 posted on 03/04/2006 5:39:10 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: 2Jim_Brown

I am one of those (not in technology, though I tried once). I plan on working at high pay until they fit me for a blue vest and make me a Wal-Mart greeter. Until then I am working for my grandchildren, for some nice stuff, and for helping others.


4 posted on 03/04/2006 5:46:36 PM PST by sine_nomine (Every baby is a blessing from God, from the moment of conception.)
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To: 2Jim_Brown

it doesn't concern them at all. they will hire offshore workers to replace them, and attempt to lay off as many of the ones they have in their 50s, before their pension obligations increase. I see this every day at work.


5 posted on 03/04/2006 5:52:52 PM PST by oceanview
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To: 2Jim_Brown

Considering the tech companies have pooped on their employees for so long, who cares about these companies, the industry is shot as it is.


8 posted on 03/04/2006 6:11:45 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: 2Jim_Brown
What they mean by more productive younger workers is those naive fresh graduates who gladly work 80 hrs/week thinking they are doing great things for their budding careers.

After proudly working 80 hr weeks for 5 years and realizing they haven't got much in return, they may decide it's time to change jobs and set about repeating the process.

By this point, they've found themselves dealing with at least one recession and if they haven't already been layed off, they consider themselves fortunate to have a job. When things get better and they ask for something in return for all their sacrifices, they then begin to realize things aren't going the way they want them to go with their second employer.

At this point, they try and find a third place to work. Perhaps they even decide to give contracting a try and at least be compensated for their massive overtime and sacrifice.

They get their third job out of college and continue giving it their all, sacrificing social life and many other things. By now, they are highly skilled in a narrowly defined area. They hear of new technologies that present major threats to their industry but because their employers provide no training along the way and because they've been working their @asses off ever since graduation, they haven't been able to keep current. By now, it's time for them to experience their second or third recession.

They probably got through their first recession ok since they were young and just the old "deadwood" was being cleaned out of their company. However, they now grow anxious as they realize striking similarities between themselves and those they considered to be "old deadwood" 10 or 15 years earlier. As supervisors now try to say things to them that 10-15 years previously they naively took to mean they were on a career fast track, they now react with indifference or even cynicism. At some point in the not too distant future, the corporate grim reaper will come for them. In the aftermath, they will do some serious soul searching to determine whether at the age of 40, they should continue or exit the profession, start over and find something else to do.

11 posted on 03/04/2006 6:20:44 PM PST by fso301
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To: 2Jim_Brown
I will believe it when I see it, I quit my last job in disgust after half my team was fired. They cut those who were the most experienced and highly paid or collected the most under the performance bonuses system that was in place.

The performance of those who were fired was not a consideration, only their compensation. The HR bimbos wielding the axe were too stupid. It was just easier to reach their target by firing 20 people making $100,000 than 60 people making $30,000

Get the prima-donna disconnected CEO's out at the top and the useless HR bimbos out at the bottom and maybe I will be a little more optimistic.

14 posted on 03/04/2006 6:28:58 PM PST by Energy Alley
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To: 2Jim_Brown

My husband isn't at the senior manager level, but he works in the tech industry.

Last year, he *finally* got hired into his company after working 2.5 years as a contractor. We also have a friend who got laid off from his job and is struggling to find another position in the industry. He's going from contract job to contract job because employers aren't interested in hiring someone in if they can get someone else to pay for the benefits. And they don't want to be locked into a person if it turns out that they aren't the right fit for the company.

I think that the idea of retaining employees is becoming a thing of the past. It's all about how to save a dollar.


16 posted on 03/04/2006 6:40:29 PM PST by kcbc2001
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To: 2Jim_Brown
I'm turning 50 in August. I normally work 60 to 70 hours each week. My company has no mandated retirement age. There are lots of people working into their 70's around my office. Finding people with clearances and the right skills sets is difficult. We've added some young kids in their 20's to our staff. Hopefully we can train them to be able to handle the same level of work that we perform over the next 15 to 20 years.

My "kids" are all over 18 now. I don't have the same distractions as younger people with school age or younger kids. Thirty years of experience allows me to solve problems very rapidly. I make a point of recruiting new members of the staff to learn those special skills so they will be able to take on that part of the workload in the future. The average college grad arrives with a little book learning and little practical experience. It takes time to develop that potential into a reliable core member of the organization.

18 posted on 03/04/2006 6:45:38 PM PST by Myrddin
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19 posted on 03/04/2006 6:49:30 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: 2Jim_Brown
The aging workforce is becoming a significant concern for technology
employers in the U.S.,


Yeah, that's why the US tech sector "retired" millions of US workers
over the past five years...

The availability of workers on H1Bs and outsourced workers will keep
the tech companies more than full of warm bodies.
20 posted on 03/04/2006 6:50:42 PM PST by VOA
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To: 2Jim_Brown

Amazing how management suddenly bemoans the lack of workers AFTER it's outsourced they're jobs.

Hi-tech's real problem with older workers is not that there is too many of them, and that their retirement threatens the job pool: it's that they cost too damned much to keep employed. Especially when they get to be 40 or so and those pension payments start adding up.

Expect yet another H-1B bill to bring in younger Indians, Chinese and Russians, at poverty-rate salaries.


23 posted on 03/04/2006 7:15:06 PM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: 2Jim_Brown
I'm in my mid-40's ... and at the prime of my career abilities. And I'm working until I die!

Find that in a college grad.

(scoff)

:-)

25 posted on 03/04/2006 7:40:51 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: 2Jim_Brown
attracting and retaining "experienced and reliable workers" will become a core business strategy for all employers

BWAAAHHAAAHA! Yeah, right.
29 posted on 03/04/2006 8:04:54 PM PST by Nachoman (I love greasy old bolt guns.)
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To: 2Jim_Brown

This is laughable. The high-tech firms spend the last 5 years offshoring our jobs, then they lament the shortage of high-tech workers????? If I were one of the lucky few in demand, I would extort these treasonous bastards until they screamed in pain. Then I'd take the money and open a B&B in Napa and tell them all to go to hell.


32 posted on 03/04/2006 8:16:45 PM PST by IronJack
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To: 2Jim_Brown

We wouldn't have had this problem if the selfish baby boomers hadn't killed off most of mine and the following generations through abortion.


35 posted on 03/04/2006 9:41:52 PM PST by Chewbacca (Hell knows no fury than fiery habenaro Dorito's eaten before bedtime.)
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To: 2Jim_Brown

Translation: Wahhh. Give us more H1B visas. Or wages may have to go up.


36 posted on 03/05/2006 4:02:50 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
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To: 2Jim_Brown
Hell's f-n bells. I'm 50 and have skills that I am willing to pass on to anyone without a lazy mind. It only takes advanced math and simple physics and a spatial view of what's going on to do it. A willingness to climb around and make things function is also required.

Young fat slobs wearing parachute pants that are unable to communicate in any spoken or written language should straighten up. And the ho's too.

Just between us (laugh), I know of a few guys that retired and run around as consultants once in a while between fishing, camping or whatever trips. These guys just want to pass on knowledge to someone else. And they WILL NOT go to a college to teach a course.

40 posted on 03/05/2006 2:35:24 PM PST by BobS
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To: 2Jim_Brown
Aging Workforce a Concern for US Tech Firms

Why? By 2010, what work that remains that isn't being done by H1-Bs locally will be directly offshored to India.

42 posted on 03/07/2006 9:58:29 AM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: 2Jim_Brown
bigger problem i see is that stupid piece of paper (called a degree) that says that, theoretically, a person is capable of doing a job. most of the best computer techs i know are the ones that barely made it thru high school- usually because they were too busy playing on their computers- then they end up with $10 an hour jobs, doing work that if they had that piece of paper, they could be making 3x that or more.
if companies hired the best person for the job, not the person with the fanciest piece of paper, they'd have better workers and could pay less for them.
43 posted on 03/07/2006 10:11:45 AM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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