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."
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
One of the lessons of work life is there are good bosses and bad bosses. There are many good bosses out there so don't waste any time with the bad ones.
“Apparently this kind of work ethic is not as common as it used to be.”
If you attended/graduated college, it’s been awhile.
The sense of entitlement for a lot of college kids these days
is simply jaw-dropping.
My Professor sister-in-law runs into it all the time.
You gave your daughter the golden advice. As a retired govt. manager, a person with that work ethic is highly valued.
The worker still needs to be smart and good at his or her job, but the work ethic and the ability to stay out of the vicious gossip circles is critically missing in so many workers.
I have advised all three of my children about this for years. I believe they have taken my advice and appear to be accepted in places where they have worked.
There are many lessons to be learned over the years to be successful, but you have given your daughter the one she needed as an interm.
You must be a good mom.
Well, I have a job - for which I’m thankful. There are promotion opportunities, but, even my boss’s boss doesn’t make as much money as I did 5 years ago.
Very few parents, high schools, and colleges think they need to teach personal responsibility. They used to.
More “stupid” than unprepared?
One thing the article doesn’t directly read, is that these companies are recruiting college kids.
There are many older people like myself who can’t even get a look by these same whiners.
Ding ding ding din ding ding!
We have the winner!
I'm too busy!
I'll get right on that, as soon as I fire the rest of the Union no loads and drunks.
The informaton in this article is no surprise to me. I suspect that it is fairly common knowledge that the educational system in America is ineffective. It is a failure, and intentionally so.
That is if you see a satisfactory education producing students who have mastered basic skills (the 3 Rs), the ability to think critically and a desire to become successful at whatever field of employment they choose. That is just one view of a successful education.
Sadly that is not the view that prevails today in American education. As long ago as 1983 a woman, I forget her name, who headed up the United States Department of Education described another model. She was addressing the annual gathering of governors.
She began her remarks by pointing out that those who felt the education system to be inadequate did not understand the reality of the system. According to her, educators were engaged in a total transformation of society. Without going into too much detail I will say that there were two things that struck me about her comments on the video I was watching.
One was that she was speaking to the nation’s governors. They were being made aware of the “total transformation’ American educators were initiating on American society.
Secondly, I was reminded of the changes John Dewey implemented in the educational system. This icon of American education opened the first “laboratory school” in New York in 1896. He was a socialist and an enemy of the capitalistic economic system in America.
He indicated that teaching children to read when they entered school was a mistake. He intended to first shape their “attitudes and opinions”. Reading would come after that.
Now we have students who can’t read receiving high school dipl;omas they can’t read. We have several generations of citizens who are ignorant and without the skills to become productive.
No, the article doesn’t surprise me at all. It is scary to consider that America’s governors know what is happening to young American children and to our society. I think Barack Obama could only have been elected POTUS because of American education.
I would bet you really nailed it!!
Don’t hire liberal arts majors.
I just hate their luck, pay a decent wage and you will get good employees. 20% of employees produce 80% of the work, the hard part is finding that 20%.
Not every kid is cut out for college. Some look at college as another 4 years of high school. They take classes like underwater basketweaving and wonder why they cant land a job.
My advice to any kid who dont feel like going to college but want a good job, either join the military of take up a building trade like bricklaying or plumbing. They can make a killing and even though it is dirty work, you can at least look at a house you helped build and say “ I did that”.
At Digital Equipment Corp., the longer a manager was there, the worse she got.
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