At 01:09 PM 8/2/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>> I'd also point out, that there are almost always jobs.
>
>In a booming economy, yes. During an economic depression, no.
Well, the last depression was 60+ years ago. I'm not sure that we have
enough data to say that conclusively.
At any rate, I am going to assume the absence of depression, since it was
so rare.
>I doubt anyone will hire you to run the cash register anymore. First, you're
>older now, and therefore more expensive. Even if you'd agree to work for
>minimum wage, you wouldn't be hired because the risk of you running off
>would be too great. The minute you can get a job doing something you were
>trained for, you'll be out the door, which means that the money your
>employer invested in you is gone. Your employer will now also have to spend
>money to find an other employee, and make another investment in *that*
>person.
I so wish that I could take a wager on this - but I don't believe in taking
an innocent man's money.
Wendy's wouldn't even blink at hiring me - even if only for a week. Hell,
when I worked there in college, I dictated my own hours, and my own work
schedule, with all the unpaid vacations that I wanted. I have no doubt
that they'd do it again, so long as I worked for the going rate.
Sure Wendy's won't hire me for $36,600 a year - which is what the
government will pay me for this year, but that's the point. Just because
you earn a high wage at one job does not mean that you have a moral
exemption from ever having to work at a lower-wage, more-undesirable job
again.
>It's simple risk analysis. Wendy's can greatly reduce the risk of losing
>their investment by hiring someone with a suitable education level instead
>of someone with an education level that's way above the level required for
>the job. Given that you have a college education, and are therefore
>overqualified for the job, you won't be hired.
Given that Wendy's can *never* find enough people of suitable education
level, that is just not true. (Additionally, I would point out that the
investment Wendy's makes in its workers is minimal. Indeed, in this case,
Wendy's has nothing to lose, because I already *know* how to do the job.
At any rate, Wendy's far more often loses its invetment in the *low
education* employees, who are notoriously unreliable, and frequently
leave.)
Oh and BTW - one of my co-workers at Wendy's had dual Master's degrees in
English and Philosophy from New York University. We used to talk about
Nietsche during slow afternoons.
JDG
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