RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness

Subject: RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness
From: "Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com>
To: "TechWr-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:52:34 -0400

Combs, Richard writes:
> Firing people for incompetence is difficult, if not impossible, at any
> number of organizations -- mostly they're unionized, bureaucracies,
and
> especially unionized bureacracies. A particularly striking example is
> the New York City public school system. It spends $20 million a year
> paying incompetent and dangerous teachers to do nothing because firing
> them is too expensive and time-consuming.
>

Yes -- and look at the ones who aren't unionized or bureaucracies, or
unionized bureaucracies,
like AIG, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wachovia, Washington Mutual,
GM, Chrysler...
they don't get fired, they get bonuses! And even when they are "let go",
they get fat paychecks
and payments to cushion the fall!

I wouldn't mind being fired for incompetence if it results in a nice
Golden
Parachute!


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References:
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Erik Hare
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Peter Neilson
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Leonard C. Porrello
Re: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Gene Kim-Eng
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Sarah Stegall
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: davec
Re: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Gene Kim-Eng
RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Combs, Richard

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