Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)

Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by JackFr on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:27AM (#20766493)

Back in the day, Merrill Lynch had a rep for hiring really green people on the cheap, doing a very good job training them up, and then not paying them according to their new value in the market. When you would leave, managers would often lay the guilt trip about "What you owe us..." (to which the proper response is the line from Goodfellas -"F* you. Pay me.")

There was a sitewide IT town hall in NY when I was there and some senior MD brought this problem up. "We're investing a lot of money in training people and then having difficulty retaining them." From the crowd of around 1000 a voice cried out "Stop training them!"

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by noobermin on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:30AM (#20767796)

Why is the response to stop training them rather than train them and then pay them their worth?

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by JackFr on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:46AM (#20768640)

That's not the correct response. I'm pretty sure the person was being facetious.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:11AM (#20768250)

Is that really what you want though? Ever wonder why all our schools are becoming job training centers?

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