75% of STEM workers leave their field. There isn't a recruiting or training shortage, there's a retention issue.
Why?
2 simple reasons: 1. STEM workers are paid less than other disciplines that require similar intelligence, skills, and experience. 2. STEM workers are pushed to lower social levels. In some places I've seen them regarded lower than the janitorial staff.
Interfacing is typically 4x the complexity with less return.
Oracle ERP is the most flexible for custom configuration and programming. It took me only a week to get productive with a PLSQL book (many years ago).
The basis of the issue seems to be lack of standardized business processes. What you face isn't a technical issue, but a functional issue of business process re-engineering for the company. The other is a good change management process.
The other issue that I see is Atlanta because it's probably the most in demand of skilled ERP developers in the USA right now. Try other cities for your development teams. I can think of a couple dozen cities where I can find skilled software engineers with 10+ years experience in the $100k range - they are typically 4x to 10x more effective than new hires.
Show me an area with a high minimum wage and I'll show you an area with a large illegal labor force making less.
I travel all around the country and that's a very constant result. If you want to increase wages then 1) invest in education, and 2) change Free Trade to Fair Trade.
More or less. What the environmental religion fails to understand is that regardless if you spend more for a "green" product, somewhere down the supply chain it's always going to end up fueling some truck that gets 4 MPG.
The bottom line is that outlawing drugs reduces their use, and correspondingly reduce their negative effects on society.
Should it be handled better? Of course. But do it factually rather than the misinfotainment spouted by both sides. Take pot for instance... the genetic and economic damage is huge. 150x the THC is not the harmless stuff the hippies from the 60's smoked. The political Right makes it a boogy man, but the political Left pushes "medical marijuana" which is a bigger lie than "Iraq WMD". Both drive from their marketing basis rather than act on fact.
Traction Control in my car attempts to murder me at least twice each winter. Tech may be better than the average driver... but that means 50% of drivers are better than the tech.
Not really. Chinese culture is based on stealing rather than inventing. They regard the USA as a no-holds-barred competitor while we mistakenly regard them as a frenemy. Mismatch of dynamics in our interactions.
More likely "education" doesn't understand reality.
That being said, a good degree from a good course/school will teach you a lot of fundamentals that a job won't. That'll give you decades of work rather than the quick-dirty-burnout single job from no education.
I disagree. Employees are scattered across the globe so cannot meet and talk. Also, there are so many layers and locations that often its hard to find the right person to talk with.
When done right, people with good ideas get recognized and those ideas promoted, questions get answered, and transparency is added.
When done wrong (most the time), ideas are stolen, people waste time, and politics are played.
Further, Hobby Lobby still provides coverage for more than a dozen kinds of birth control. Just not the ones that can induce abortion of an already fertilized fetus.
That was quoted but then details came out to prove it incorrect. Hobby Lobby also bans IUDs, etc.
The only real vote is the dollar. I stopped spending money at Chic Fil'A because they spent millions on corporate bigotry. Now I'll stop going to Hobby Lobby because of their corporate misogyny.
Blaming firearms for suicide is blaming firearms for mental illness. Guns are a tool, nothing more, nothing less. Tools don't instigate anything. Going down that blame road does a severe disservice to what can actually help people in distress.
Not really, you're thinking about Politicians rather than police.
On one hand, damn all lawyers! The corporation stance is stupid legal wrangling. On the other hand, I'd never become a cop due to the incredibly ridiculous amount of liability, red tape, blatantly lying "news" channels and papers, and blame for having to enforce bad laws.
Go do some ride-alongs with your local police to see what they put up with.
Phooey on you and your logic fallacy argument. I worked at one of only 3 places in the nation that ran those metrics. I'll take my professional opinion or your unprofessional opinion.
I wrote a traffic metrics recording and forecasting program for a transportation research company a few years back.
Roundabouts are the WORST thing there is for an uncontrolled intersection. They're only useful around rural high schools so that kids don't get impatient and rush into an intersection to get t-boned at 55mph. The tradeoff is that you increase fender benders by 10x. For any kind of significant traffic, roundabouts simply seize up.
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75% of STEM workers leave their field. There isn't a recruiting or training shortage, there's a retention issue.
Why?
2 simple reasons:
1. STEM workers are paid less than other disciplines that require similar intelligence, skills, and experience.
2. STEM workers are pushed to lower social levels. In some places I've seen them regarded lower than the janitorial staff.
Interfacing is typically 4x the complexity with less return.
Oracle ERP is the most flexible for custom configuration and programming. It took me only a week to get productive with a PLSQL book (many years ago).
The basis of the issue seems to be lack of standardized business processes. What you face isn't a technical issue, but a functional issue of business process re-engineering for the company. The other is a good change management process.
The other issue that I see is Atlanta because it's probably the most in demand of skilled ERP developers in the USA right now. Try other cities for your development teams. I can think of a couple dozen cities where I can find skilled software engineers with 10+ years experience in the $100k range - they are typically 4x to 10x more effective than new hires.
Not so much of a leap since Verizon and Comcast have admitted to such.
Wouldn't a simple tracert show the route (and any differences)?
highly qualified Microsoft experts.
Sounds like a double oxymoron to me.
Show me an area with a high minimum wage and I'll show you an area with a large illegal labor force making less.
I travel all around the country and that's a very constant result. If you want to increase wages then 1) invest in education, and 2) change Free Trade to Fair Trade.
More or less. What the environmental religion fails to understand is that regardless if you spend more for a "green" product, somewhere down the supply chain it's always going to end up fueling some truck that gets 4 MPG.
The bottom line is that outlawing drugs reduces their use, and correspondingly reduce their negative effects on society.
Should it be handled better? Of course. But do it factually rather than the misinfotainment spouted by both sides. Take pot for instance... the genetic and economic damage is huge. 150x the THC is not the harmless stuff the hippies from the 60's smoked. The political Right makes it a boogy man, but the political Left pushes "medical marijuana" which is a bigger lie than "Iraq WMD". Both drive from their marketing basis rather than act on fact.
No button. Standard Big Brother - corp and gov fail when they think they know best.
Traction Control in my car attempts to murder me at least twice each winter. Tech may be better than the average driver... but that means 50% of drivers are better than the tech.
Not really. Chinese culture is based on stealing rather than inventing. They regard the USA as a no-holds-barred competitor while we mistakenly regard them as a frenemy. Mismatch of dynamics in our interactions.
Blame the voters - they put those politicians into office.
More likely "education" doesn't understand reality.
That being said, a good degree from a good course/school will teach you a lot of fundamentals that a job won't. That'll give you decades of work rather than the quick-dirty-burnout single job from no education.
The article seeks to equate subsidy with investment. Those really aren't the same thing.
20 years ago I was using a computer monitor with better resolution than the one today.
20 years ago I was using programming tools that were higher quality than those today.
20 years ago we knew that CPUs would have to go multi-core once they passed the low ghz range.
"Tech" today is just cheap toy knockoffs of decades old engineering.
The dumbest thing about this is that we're talking about it instead of doing something effective about it.
Unlikely. Battery technology has only improved 5% annually over time without using exotic substances.
I disagree. Employees are scattered across the globe so cannot meet and talk. Also, there are so many layers and locations that often its hard to find the right person to talk with.
When done right, people with good ideas get recognized and those ideas promoted, questions get answered, and transparency is added.
When done wrong (most the time), ideas are stolen, people waste time, and politics are played.
An IUD acts as a spermicide, not embryo. How are facts irrelevant?
Further, Hobby Lobby still provides coverage for more than a dozen kinds of birth control. Just not the ones that can induce abortion of an already fertilized fetus.
That was quoted but then details came out to prove it incorrect. Hobby Lobby also bans IUDs, etc.
The only real vote is the dollar. I stopped spending money at Chic Fil'A because they spent millions on corporate bigotry. Now I'll stop going to Hobby Lobby because of their corporate misogyny.
There was an earlier story about how sand at beaches is actually a large (and growing) percentage plastic.
Blaming firearms for suicide is blaming firearms for mental illness. Guns are a tool, nothing more, nothing less. Tools don't instigate anything. Going down that blame road does a severe disservice to what can actually help people in distress.
Not really, you're thinking about Politicians rather than police.
On one hand, damn all lawyers! The corporation stance is stupid legal wrangling. On the other hand, I'd never become a cop due to the incredibly ridiculous amount of liability, red tape, blatantly lying "news" channels and papers, and blame for having to enforce bad laws.
Go do some ride-alongs with your local police to see what they put up with.
A billion people are often wrong.
Phooey on you and your logic fallacy argument. I worked at one of only 3 places in the nation that ran those metrics. I'll take my professional opinion or your unprofessional opinion.
I wrote a traffic metrics recording and forecasting program for a transportation research company a few years back.
Roundabouts are the WORST thing there is for an uncontrolled intersection. They're only useful around rural high schools so that kids don't get impatient and rush into an intersection to get t-boned at 55mph. The tradeoff is that you increase fender benders by 10x. For any kind of significant traffic, roundabouts simply seize up.
Isn't there still a $7500 federal subsidy? Not to mention regulations and corporate loans indirectly adding thousands of dollars.
On top of that, most hybrids are in name only. Paying more to receive less - worse than worthless.