Posted on 09/12/2009 5:38:18 PM PDT by george76
Within the past year Sarah Schupp has hired five new employees with freshly minted college degrees. She fired one on his first day for inappropriate sexual comments to a co-worker. Another lasted a week before getting a pink slip.
..." you can't call in sick at 7:45 a.m. just because you don't want to come to work at 8 a.m."
Jeanne Achille also was disappointed with the hiring of a recent college hire, promoted by a university professor as a "superstar" and fired after three weeks when it was discovered she spent hours online at work visiting a dating site. She also tweeted about a night of partying -- then e-mailed in sick the next day.
"Just who is supposed to be preparing these kids for the workplace?"
"Employers have always complained about a lack of hard and soft skills. The problem is that now employers don't have the luxury of letting employees learn on the job."
With only 15 employees, Achille says that "we don't go into a hiring decision lightly in this economy," and says no company can afford to put money into training new workers -- those dollars are reserved for "top talent," she says.
"We've decided to just not offer this position to an entry-level person anymore," Achille says. "We've had some good college students come and work here in the past, but we just can't afford to lose the productivity. It costs us money."
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First of all, your personal story is irrelevant. Tongs of current generation students could say the same thing as you. Secondly, calling in sick, being lazy, making inappropriate comments is something seen in 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 year olds.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants,not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when eleders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
-Plato
“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of
elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and
impatient of restraint” (Hesiod, 8th century BC).
I’m 32 - and notice it with coworkers. I was referring how a company like this will change job requirements from “recent college grad” to “college grad with XXX yrs experience” and not increase the salary offered...and wonder why they STILL can’t find decent employees.
And such patterns have probably been going in cycles for millenia. In fact, there’s a three-generation theory about that. Or maybe it’s more generations, I forget.
But certainly it is true that more kids worked in their teens 30 years ago than do today.
And you were correct!
I missed that and I apologize.
Sounds like she needs to improve her hiring process.
It has just gotten worse since then!
“Hire interns to see if they are any good then hire them later. Alternatively, hire older people who need the job and will work hard plus they are responsible.”
I started doing this back in the 80’s. It is by far the best method to screen out the flakes.
“As a retired Air Force officer (and current university recruiter) I’ll still amazed at the number of employers who devalue (or simply don’t understand) the value of military training and experience. Those signs and messages to “hire a vet” are just as relevant today as they were 65 years ago.”
My dad(a decorated WW2 vet) suggested I try to hire young vets for my entry level positions. It was the best advice he ever gave me. About 10 years ago, I hired a 25 year old vet who had a junior college degree , and was attending night school at a major university. This guy read every book I had on being a stock broker by the end his first
year. He is now one of the top currency traders at Bank of America. I had similar success with other vets.
There should be no minimum wage of any kind. It only inflates other wages and is bad for the economy in the long run, it certainly doesn’t help the people it is intended to help because wages and prices both increase at the same time with prices increasing more than the wages.
I agree, but since the minimum wage is not going away, the best realistic solution is to implement a “training wage” for teenagers.
Screaming Gerbil... given your screen name, maybe you shouldn’t reference the light at the end of the tunnel. HHOK
She should recruit in TEXAS. Aviod the leftist liberal loser grads.
So they want experienced employees for the price of an entry level salary? Ok. I want a Porsche for the price of a 1980 Chevette.
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