[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I've had employers tell me they don't want to spend money on formal traing because, "We pay for someones education, then they leave to go work for someone else. We're not paying to educate our competitors employees."

I never went to work for anyone else for the very simple reason that they treated me honestly and decently. If those employers fear that a trained emplyee would leave then maybe they should take a good look at how they treat their employees. Why leave a job where you are well treated, decently paid and respected for some unknown?

Which, if you think that through, it boils down to greed too. The reason the educated employee leaves, is because the employer offers little or no financial reward at the finish of training........but the competitor does. Funny, how such free market principles are so precious to them.....so long as it works in their favor. If it doesn't, they'd rather have ignorant employees than pay out the money. Which, of course, costs them more in the long run.


Or they expect the schools you and I pay for to turn out robots to meet their specifications rather than upstanding citizens capable of thinking for themselves.

And, I fail to see how that's the employees fault. Or anybodys fault but management, for that matter.

Dave

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