Y'know what I hate? (part two)
What I hate is the truth of an article like this one, from Machine Design, in which opinion-author James Finkel tells usConsider a recent Wall Street Journal article about a vendor of high-speed-network equipment, since bought and resold at least once. The article details the long hours put in by engineers and staff to ship the company's next generation of products. We discover the engineers were working 80-hr weeks for about $75,000 annual salary. Do the math: The techies did not have a $75,000/yr job; they had two $37,500/yr jobs, and only one that paid benefits....and Finkel goes on to remind us about two other sins of engineering employers: non-compete agreements and lost intellectual-property rights. Oh, yeah, and the idea that skills are not transferable because we engineers can't use the right buzzwords, and the human-resources wonks can't understand the wrong ones. Bleah.
It's what I've long been telling anyone who can shake the boredom out of their eyes long enough to listen: engineering employers know they can find someone who will do exactly what they want done, for exactly what they want to pay, and under whatever conditions they want to impose. All they have to do is remain patient. And the professional societies, if they are doing anything at all about such dismal treatment of skilled professionals, are certainly not doing anything that matters.
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posted by Ron @ 9:36 PM
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