On Feb 17, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:22:54 -0800 (PST), Neil Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Get me a skill, so I can get a job, so I can make a lot of money, so I can retire and play golf all day.
I don't see anything wrong with that. My biggest beef is that it's not confined to vocational schools.
Well, there is a particular missing link.
Businesses want vocational training, but don't want to do it or pay for it.
It used to be that if you joined a company (IBM, DEC, Westinghouse, AMD, to name those I have direct experience with) the company would pay for any training associated with your job. In addition, they had remarkably good internal training programs. IBM's training on photolithography 10 years ago was better than anything I have seen, yet.
Most of those programs are now gone. Businesses regard training as a useless expenditure via the following reasoning:
"Well, if we train them, they'll just leave and get a better job elsewhere."
This, of course, ignores the fact that this happens only when the employees feel they are treated like crap. Which is everywhere, nowadays. Or, more importantly, it occurs when employees realize that the only way to get a decent raise is to switch companies because the beancounters would rather pay a 30% premium for an external employee than give a 20% raise to an internal one.
Thus, it becomes a negative feedback cycle.
-a
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