1: Where do you get this idea that we're looking for people willing to work for less than they're worth? I never even mentioned compensation. YOU simply ASSUMED that. We know the type of candidates we want are not common. And the pay reflects that. This is why we tell people that if they can get paid more elsewhere for the same work, TAKE IT. We don't hold anyone back, and we won't waste time on somebody who's going to jump ship. Besides, the groups that pay more than we do are few and far between.
2: Bull. We don't have the time to devote to multiple months/years of training, just to have someone up and better-deal us the second they're trained. So we hire experts and pay for experts.
3: You're talking to a fellow GenX'er. And while I did note some of this in our generation as well, this sort of unemployable streak has really only blossomed in the last 10-ish years or so. It's not that we simply won't even look at millennials. We do. All the time. They simply don't tend to work out (for the reasons outlined), and we're busy enough that we don't have time to waste.
1: No. Job requirements and goals are discussed, EXTENSIVELY, during the hiring process. We're not a training facility. So we hire people who are supposed to be experts (and pay commensurately). Also, there's an initial break-in period to make sure that these people can conform to the job expected of them.
2: This is what the break-in is for. And it's not as if help simply CANNOT be asked for if problems arise.
3: How is "can solve problems without constant oversight" translated into "surrounded by micro-managers"? I'm talking about people who literally freeze the second someone questions them at something more than a superficial level about something that's supposed to be their field of expertise.
4: No, should be technical with good self-management skills and the ability to be polite on the phone. Hell, we even provide phones with a MUTE function in case a particularly insolulable situation arises and they feel the need to vent. But we've had recruits flip out on clients for things that were not the clients fault, swearing like a bunch of drunken sailors with no filters in every day life on a drunken bender, etc.
Sorry if my accurate descriptions of a bunch of unemployables in your target demographic hurts your fee fees. Cope.
Yep. I spend the majority of my time telecommuting.
The main problem is, we're not (and cannot be) a teaching facility. So we hire, and pay for, people who should already be experts in the subject matter.
Yet, most of the time, going after such people in the millennial category, they simply fail to perform. Not that they don't KNOW their subject. They simply don't perform the job. In-office, telecommuting, etc.
Add to that the inter-personal problems many millennials bring to the table, the kinds of things that simply CANNOT be accepted in any customer-facing capacity, and
I'm not even talking about some out of whack work-life balance here. I'm talking a solid 40-hour week with bennies, paid vacation, the whole nine yards. Maybe a little overtime when/if they want it. Just show up and DO THE JOB with a minimum of drama and wangst. The problem is, most simply don't want to do that.
We constantly seem to get people who think they're being paid to sit in front of their computer and browse porn for 6 hours, take an hour for lunch, 2 15 minute breaks and duck out early.
Uh no. If I can complain about anything at this job, shit wages AIN'T it.
No. We need people who are self-starters, don't need to be hand-held. can solve problems without constant oversight, and who deal well with customers. And if they can find better working conditions and wages someplace else doing what we require here, we TELL THEM to take it.
It can be nice at times. You don't have to deal with anyone on a bad day, nor do they.
The fact that this cuts down on your exposure to illness is a nice bonus too! I've been generally healthier (as in not getting the flu/colds, etc) since starting as a telecommuter.
Not dealing with some crappy, underpowered machine is a nice bonus.
And the amount of money I save on gasoline is PHENOMENAL. I literally put less than 3000 miles a year on my vehicle (and my insurance company has a discount for low-mileage owners).
On the downsides (however).
You have to put REAL effort into enforcing a work/life balance.
It's quite possible to work yourself into the ground in front of your computer.
You have to make an effort to get up and walk away for a couple minutes to simulate breaks at work.
It can be VERY difficult to take lunches as this kind of setup encourages "al desko" dining.
Additionally, the fact that you're primarily interfacing with co-workers via text (we use IM to communicate) can lead to some major aggro. Instant Message does NOT mean "Instant Reply". And some co-workers and bosses have a REALLY hard time grokking this, expecting you to simply drop EVERYTHING and fence with them in IM for an hour.
So, you have to work at establishing and maintaining boundaries. One of the ones I'm working on right now is a co-worker who likes to play "hot potato". If I'm simply not available, they call a client up, get them set up, then simply transfers them to me. Regardless of if I'm working on anything else or not...So *I* have to either drop what I'm doing or broom them, which makes us look like shit.
So, it can be a sweet gig. But you have to remember it's still "work" and you have to treat it as such.
Why can't MULTIPLE avenues of sequestration be pursued?
Sure, any given one might not be a silver bullet.
But, all together?
Hell, simply moving over from Coal/Oil/Gas to Nuclear, Geothermal, Hydro and other renewables (Wind, Wave and Solar (multiple types)) globally would crater production.
This is why I absolutely refuse to to surf without adblockers in place. The whole online ads thing has been a shit-show since the word "go". And they piss and moan about it, while taking ever greater liberties with computing resources THEY DO NOT OWN. You can't even trust GOOGLE for chrissakes! And they're a browser vendor? How VERY convenient!
You wanna block me from viewing your content because I don't let you infect, destabilize, and take over my system? Fine, I don't need to see your shit content that bad. I'll go do something ELSE.
But I've been this way all my life. I have a low tolerance for people being jackasses, and an even lower tolerance for random nobodies trying to tell me what to do just because they think they're entitled to.
I have no problem NOT holding up my camera to bootleg the performance.
I have no problem memorizing and retaining the experience with two pieces of OEM equipment.
The Mark I Eyeball. The Mark I Binaural Ear Set.
If I have to make, or take a call, I'll get the hell out of the audience (or the venue if necessary) and take/make the call.
I don't need some self-riteous asshole to tell me how to act like a goddamn adult. Hell, I don't even take that shit from my MOTHER (and DAMN if she doesn't have the capital to claim it anyhow).
Them demanding I put it in a lock-bag under THEIR control is treating me like a child. It's also telling me "I don't want your money."
Slashdot Mirror
The same thing is it every day Pinky!
It's BETA AND UNSUPPORTED UNTIL WE KILL IT!
At the risk of being obvious...
The FCC.
Waiting for some mouth-breathing drool-fountain to start claiming gender wage gap and sexism.
FULL
OF
SHIT!
YouTube
Alphabet
Google
Employees of all of the above.
The political party supported by all of the above.
That's what we'd like to know...
1: Where do you get this idea that we're looking for people willing to work for less than they're worth? I never even mentioned compensation. YOU simply ASSUMED that. We know the type of candidates we want are not common. And the pay reflects that. This is why we tell people that if they can get paid more elsewhere for the same work, TAKE IT. We don't hold anyone back, and we won't waste time on somebody who's going to jump ship. Besides, the groups that pay more than we do are few and far between.
2: Bull. We don't have the time to devote to multiple months/years of training, just to have someone up and better-deal us the second they're trained. So we hire experts and pay for experts.
3: You're talking to a fellow GenX'er. And while I did note some of this in our generation as well, this sort of unemployable streak has really only blossomed in the last 10-ish years or so. It's not that we simply won't even look at millennials. We do. All the time. They simply don't tend to work out (for the reasons outlined), and we're busy enough that we don't have time to waste.
1: No. Job requirements and goals are discussed, EXTENSIVELY, during the hiring process. We're not a training facility. So we hire people who are supposed to be experts (and pay commensurately). Also, there's an initial break-in period to make sure that these people can conform to the job expected of them.
2: This is what the break-in is for. And it's not as if help simply CANNOT be asked for if problems arise.
3: How is "can solve problems without constant oversight" translated into "surrounded by micro-managers"? I'm talking about people who literally freeze the second someone questions them at something more than a superficial level about something that's supposed to be their field of expertise.
4: No, should be technical with good self-management skills and the ability to be polite on the phone. Hell, we even provide phones with a MUTE function in case a particularly insolulable situation arises and they feel the need to vent. But we've had recruits flip out on clients for things that were not the clients fault, swearing like a bunch of drunken sailors with no filters in every day life on a drunken bender, etc.
Sorry if my accurate descriptions of a bunch of unemployables in your target demographic hurts your fee fees.
Cope.
Yep. I spend the majority of my time telecommuting.
The main problem is, we're not (and cannot be) a teaching facility. So we hire, and pay for, people who should already be experts in the subject matter.
Yet, most of the time, going after such people in the millennial category, they simply fail to perform. Not that they don't KNOW their subject. They simply don't perform the job. In-office, telecommuting, etc.
Add to that the inter-personal problems many millennials bring to the table, the kinds of things that simply CANNOT be accepted in any customer-facing capacity, and
We prefer someone who gets the job done, to spec and moves on to the next thing that needs doing.
I'm not even talking about some out of whack work-life balance here.
I'm talking a solid 40-hour week with bennies, paid vacation, the whole nine yards.
Maybe a little overtime when/if they want it.
Just show up and DO THE JOB with a minimum of drama and wangst.
The problem is, most simply don't want to do that.
We constantly seem to get people who think they're being paid to sit in front of their computer and browse porn for 6 hours, take an hour for lunch, 2 15 minute breaks and duck out early.
Uh no. If I can complain about anything at this job, shit wages AIN'T it.
No. We need people who are self-starters, don't need to be hand-held. can solve problems without constant oversight, and who deal well with customers.
And if they can find better working conditions and wages someplace else doing what we require here, we TELL THEM to take it.
It couldn't happen to a sleazier bunch of shitbags.
Yes, it's not a panacea to consumers.
But there's just SO! MUCH! SCHADEFREUDE! at how these greed, grasping fucksticks have basically painted themselves into a corner in the last 40 years.
Basically everything coming our way lately stinks of entitled millennial.
Basically every last mean trope you've ever heard. We've seen them all.
It's at the point that the owner is considering just shutting down when they retire.
Also notice that the Daily Wire had their SOTU stream cut off. They were using the C-Span video stream of the event.
But, because The Young Turks. a YouTube Affiliate, was ALSO using it...REASONS.
It can be nice at times. You don't have to deal with anyone on a bad day, nor do they.
The fact that this cuts down on your exposure to illness is a nice bonus too! I've been generally healthier (as in not getting the flu/colds, etc) since starting as a telecommuter.
Not dealing with some crappy, underpowered machine is a nice bonus.
And the amount of money I save on gasoline is PHENOMENAL. I literally put less than 3000 miles a year on my vehicle (and my insurance company has a discount for low-mileage owners).
On the downsides (however).
You have to put REAL effort into enforcing a work/life balance.
It's quite possible to work yourself into the ground in front of your computer.
You have to make an effort to get up and walk away for a couple minutes to simulate breaks at work.
It can be VERY difficult to take lunches as this kind of setup encourages "al desko" dining.
Additionally, the fact that you're primarily interfacing with co-workers via text (we use IM to communicate) can lead to some major aggro. Instant Message does NOT mean "Instant Reply". And some co-workers and bosses have a REALLY hard time grokking this, expecting you to simply drop EVERYTHING and fence with them in IM for an hour.
So, you have to work at establishing and maintaining boundaries. One of the ones I'm working on right now is a co-worker who likes to play "hot potato". If I'm simply not available, they call a client up, get them set up, then simply transfers them to me. Regardless of if I'm working on anything else or not...So *I* have to either drop what I'm doing or broom them, which makes us look like shit.
So, it can be a sweet gig.
But you have to remember it's still "work" and you have to treat it as such.
Why can't MULTIPLE avenues of sequestration be pursued?
Sure, any given one might not be a silver bullet.
But, all together?
Hell, simply moving over from Coal/Oil/Gas to Nuclear, Geothermal, Hydro and other renewables (Wind, Wave and Solar (multiple types)) globally would crater production.
In other news, water is wet, the sun is hot, and proctological exams are uncomfortable.
Of COURSE they are. And always HAVE been.
Their priorities and interests when watching films have little to nothing to do with the film itself.
They're reviewing based on synthetic ideals of what constitutes a "well made" film along the lines of film school and art appreciation.
Regular people don't watch films like that.
They go to films for various reasons that all boil down to "Did this film entertain me in the ways I expected it to?"
This is why I absolutely refuse to to surf without adblockers in place.
The whole online ads thing has been a shit-show since the word "go".
And they piss and moan about it, while taking ever greater liberties with computing resources THEY DO NOT OWN.
You can't even trust GOOGLE for chrissakes! And they're a browser vendor? How VERY convenient!
You wanna block me from viewing your content because I don't let you infect, destabilize, and take over my system?
Fine, I don't need to see your shit content that bad. I'll go do something ELSE.
Online advertising is a Herpes infection.
*WHOOSH*
Everyone's a random nobody (also known as "A random asshole on the Internet with an Opinion").
Sure, he may have a larger sphere of people who know him (or of him) than I do.
So what? It doesn't, somehow, magically make him a better class of human being.
Nor does it confer on him any superior morality or authority.
And like a great many things. I refuse to be treat a certain way based on the bad behavior of others.
Sorry, if you dislike the content of my post(s), you're entirely free to fuck the hell off.
I'm probably going to the wrong shows.
And yeah, I'm probably crotchety.
But I've been this way all my life. I have a low tolerance for people being jackasses, and an even lower tolerance for random nobodies trying to tell me what to do just because they think they're entitled to.
Okay, going to echo Gojira Shipi-Taro here.
I have no problem NOT holding up my camera to bootleg the performance.
I have no problem memorizing and retaining the experience with two pieces of OEM equipment.
The Mark I Eyeball.
The Mark I Binaural Ear Set.
If I have to make, or take a call, I'll get the hell out of the audience (or the venue if necessary) and take/make the call.
I don't need some self-riteous asshole to tell me how to act like a goddamn adult.
Hell, I don't even take that shit from my MOTHER (and DAMN if she doesn't have the capital to claim it anyhow).
Them demanding I put it in a lock-bag under THEIR control is treating me like a child.
It's also telling me "I don't want your money."
Fine. They can fuck off without my money.