Tibbi

I'm going to side with the senile on this one. In my last job, and part of the reason I buggered out, I was a manager, and in that company our turn-over was stupid high. Basically so long as you were a warm body who bathed once a week and could mutter into a headset, you qualified. Mind you this was a "technical" support team for IBM (which eventually became Lenovo. It was a highly scripted environment and paid shittly with zero opportunity for raises unless you met a certain number of virtually impossible goals. My job was to weed out the bad seeds because I'm an a**hole and very very good at playing the bad guy. I fired between 2-4 people a week. and we had applications coming out our ears. Most never made it past the interview process and about half that did failed the drug test. And even then a good chuck that made it to the 3 weeks of training, most dropped out or got better jobs. It was the fastest revolving door company I have ever seen, and still boggles the mind. I'm, not going to say that everyone is going that route, but since I do a lot of contract work, it seems like turn over everywhere is getting more prevalent.





More on topic. I have not received a pay raise without promotion in any professional career. None! I have found that by working my butt off to get better jobs, either internally and externally, I get a better rate of pay. It sucks in many ways, but the days of the cost if living raise seems to be a distant memory, let alone the gold watch and retirement package.