I second this. When I was young I remember National Geographic doing special on the universe, I think it may have been when the Hubbel was first launched. There was this pull-out map of the universe showing at various levels our position in the solar system, the Milky Way and the universe as a whole. It makes you feel small, but there it so much new stuff to learn.
It makes you wonder if there are companies that really do things the way they are portrayed in the recent Staples comercials. Customer coming in, we need THE company pen!
This is exactly the stupid kind of stuff that companies do to prop up their stock price for the two weeks at the end of a quarter. My company recently moved a whole profit sector from one division to another just to make the books look good. It does nothing for the long term bottom line. I think the only thing they are going to end up doing is angering their employees. I would accept a 3.8% cut over the course of a year if it meant helping the company, but a 50% cut for one month, with a 2 week notice is insane.
$50K per employee is no drop in the bucket, no matter how big your campany is. It sounds as if they have some cash and want to invest in their employees, but they also want their employees to "invest" themselves in the company. Without knowing who your employer is, I doubt your employer's plan is to give their employees training then "demand" it back by making you quit. It just doesn't make good business sense to do that to the people who work for you (unless your boss has pointy hair and your HR director is a cat:)
Companies make money by investing and collecting in the future. If they are willing to give you $50k today, then they are probably expecting that over the next 3 to 5 years that you will return that and more by working harder and smater in producing whatever your company makes.
Unless you really hate your employer and think there is no place to go in the near future I say take the training. When considering the average career spans 25 or 30 years, 3 years is not that long of a time. Heck, you don't even have to use all 50k. Why not take a few classes to fill in the gaps of what you don't know.
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I second this. When I was young I remember National Geographic doing special on the universe, I think it may have been when the Hubbel was first launched. There was this pull-out map of the universe showing at various levels our position in the solar system, the Milky Way and the universe as a whole. It makes you feel small, but there it so much new stuff to learn.
It makes you wonder if there are companies that really do things the way they are portrayed in the recent Staples comercials. Customer coming in, we need THE company pen!
This is exactly the stupid kind of stuff that companies do to prop up their stock price for the two weeks at the end of a quarter. My company recently moved a whole profit sector from one division to another just to make the books look good. It does nothing for the long term bottom line. I think the only thing they are going to end up doing is angering their employees. I would accept a 3.8% cut over the course of a year if it meant helping the company, but a 50% cut for one month, with a 2 week notice is insane.
Companies make money by investing and collecting in the future. If they are willing to give you $50k today, then they are probably expecting that over the next 3 to 5 years that you will return that and more by working harder and smater in producing whatever your company makes.
Unless you really hate your employer and think there is no place to go in the near future I say take the training. When considering the average career spans 25 or 30 years, 3 years is not that long of a time. Heck, you don't even have to use all 50k. Why not take a few classes to fill in the gaps of what you don't know.