Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ...
by slantyyz on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:21AM
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>> Employers in general complain that they can't buy filet mignon for the price of hot dogs, and that's suppose to be the employee's problem.
The real underlying problem is that most employers I've encountered think that they're doing their employees a favor by "giving" them a job. They don't truly perceive it as a value-for-value economic transaction.
This becomes quite evident when they give you a pile of legal papers to sign where the balance of the benefits slant heavily to the employer.
Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ...
by totony on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:34AM
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I've seen this a lot, a lot of employers seem to think they're doing their employee a favor and are insulted when they demand higher salary/better hours, but they are quick to mourn their loss and to say they can't find anyone when the employee decides to leave.
Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ...
by mabbo on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:20AM
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> they can't buy filet mignon for the price of hot dogs
I'm going to use this analogy in the future. "You want filet mignon, but you're only willing to pay for hotdogs- and you're blaming the meat".
Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ...
by toomanyrichies on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:11AM
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That is a good analogy. Another one I've heard is "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."
To make matters far worse, the industry in general pays lip service to on-the-job training and some employers also avoid junior/inexperienced developers, because they don't want to train anyone.
And don't get me started on the absolute cancer that are HR/outsourcing/body farm companies, the type that hires 3 HR technicians to dedicate themselves to bullshit naive techies to work for 50% of their actual market value and fire them as soon as they aren't indispensable.