Re:A**hole bosses are not confined to IT
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(3) Many young people in the workforce don't know this one, but it's taught in the b-schools: The cost of hiring a skilled person usually costs out around the value of a third of the employee's annual salary. In other words, firing someone for no good reason is running up a major cost. (If he fires say five or six people, he's cost the company more than his annual salary. And what will *his* boss have to say about that? This is exactly right, but you underestimate the cost of replacing someone. Not all areas even HAVE ready access to engineers. So the stipulation would be -provided- that they could find someone equally qualified, they'd still have to relocate, and get that person up to speed. Replacement costs on engineers run in the area of 150K. That supervisor had better have one blinking good reason for unloading a funtioning engineer.
Re:Welcome to RealWorld(tm)
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Nope, you're exactly right. Here in Oregon, by some twisted fluke, a 9 hour workday rather than 8hr. is pretty much standard. As hubby and I were fresh from Silicon valley, we were not impressed with this habit. Hubby would get up and leave at the end of an 8 hr. day. His supervisor started getting huffy, and put his foot down, demanding 9 hours, "just like everyone else in the work center". Conserned about getting fired, we had a family meeting, and agreed that he would not be donating any "free" time to this job. Hubby ignored crabby supervisor, and not one further word was said on the subject.
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(3) Many young people in the workforce don't know this one, but it's taught in the b-schools: The cost of hiring a skilled person usually costs out around the value of a third of the employee's annual salary. In other words, firing someone for no good reason is running up a major cost. (If he fires say five or six people, he's cost the company more than his annual salary. And what will *his* boss have to say about that? This is exactly right, but you underestimate the cost of replacing someone. Not all areas even HAVE ready access to engineers. So the stipulation would be -provided- that they could find someone equally qualified, they'd still have to relocate, and get that person up to speed. Replacement costs on engineers run in the area of 150K. That supervisor had better have one blinking good reason for unloading a funtioning engineer.
Nope, you're exactly right. Here in Oregon, by some twisted fluke, a 9 hour workday rather than 8hr. is pretty much standard. As hubby and I were fresh from Silicon valley, we were not impressed with this habit. Hubby would get up and leave at the end of an 8 hr. day. His supervisor started getting huffy, and put his foot down, demanding 9 hours, "just like everyone else in the work center". Conserned about getting fired, we had a family meeting, and agreed that he would not be donating any "free" time to this job. Hubby ignored crabby supervisor, and not one further word was said on the subject.