My latest at ECN:
http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/05/fir ... -resources
Fire Human Resources
Fire Human Resources
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Re: Fire Human Resources
Yeah
My wife's experience with university HR follows along these lines. They hire the least disruptive people only to have them leave within a year. So they are constantly hiring...well they were until the government reduced funding by 20%, now when these people leave there is no one to do the jobs.
My wife's experience with university HR follows along these lines. They hire the least disruptive people only to have them leave within a year. So they are constantly hiring...well they were until the government reduced funding by 20%, now when these people leave there is no one to do the jobs.
Everything is bullshit unless proven otherwise. -A.C. Beddoe
Re: Fire Human Resources
Great article! Falls in line with my personal experiences. Generally it seems that there is too much hire and fire going on. In Germany and Austria, engineering companies excell, because they do everything to keep their senior engineers. In the US they seem to do everything to keep their managers. That is why the same helicopter when manufactured in Germany can carry 10% more 
Re: Fire Human Resources
It, unfortunately, matches my experience as well. "You are doing great! We're very happy with what you do for the company. Oh, and we're getting rid of you. No, no reason, just 'cost cutting'."
One thing I really like about my current job: the guy that wears the HR hat also knows what our business is and what we need to do. Of course, this may just be an advantage of being in a small company (~30 people).
One thing I really like about my current job: the guy that wears the HR hat also knows what our business is and what we need to do. Of course, this may just be an advantage of being in a small company (~30 people).
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"Heather" (say), the progressive, go-getter head of HR, having failed in her originally chosen field of (say) fashion merchandising (it's always a "her" in large tech companies), has decided that you don't fit her view of an acceptable candidate.
Time for us all to be self-employed, as was once common.
Comrades, we have computers, machine tools, 3-D printers, pizza, beer and soon, p-11B fusion.
Let's Roll!
Time for us all to be self-employed, as was once common.
Comrades, we have computers, machine tools, 3-D printers, pizza, beer and soon, p-11B fusion.
Let's Roll!
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In my company it is a guy, also familiar with the field. They still layed off more than half of the engineers and none of the managers (who are the ones to blame for the problems).DeltaV wrote:"Heather" (say), the progressive, go-getter head of HR, having failed in her originally chosen field of (say) fashion merchandising (it's always a "her" in large tech companies), has decided that you don't fit her view of an acceptable candidate.
Time for us all to be self-employed, as was once common.
Comrades, we have computers, machine tools, 3-D printers, pizza, beer and soon, p-11B fusion.
Let's Roll!
How that is ever going to work now, noone knows, but hey at least the board is happy for now.
Also a small company (less than 30)
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In the midst of this right now. The system seems to be rigged to ensure that only the least competant stay hired. How smart is it to lay somebody off in the middle of a very important new product development for company, especially as the senior designer I was carrying the entire project in my head. Yet that is what management did. It's called people are interchangable widgets theory.