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Why wouldn't publix leap at the opportunity and at least make him manager of the store. I can't imagine they get many MBAs at that level. Why not actually put h

Why wouldn't publix leap at the opportunity and at least make him manager of the store. I can't imagine they get many MBAs at that level. Why not actually put his skills to good use?

andrewljohnson 17y ago
You're assuming he has a lot of skills. I have a business degree myself, and it wasn't very hard to get, and it doesn't guarantee I'm good at any one useful thing. He may have gotten laid off from his six-figure job because of the economy, but if he's capable, he should be able to move down the chain, but stay a little above bag-boy at Publix. Why can't he get a lower-paying office job? What's this guy's real story? Maybe it has more to do with unwillingness to relocate and the state of the micro-economy he lives in.
- electromagnetic 17y ago
  I know in the UK there was a big problem with degree programs. The UK government has 'encouraged' so many students to go to universities to get degrees that it has destroyed many industries. I worked on several jobs with a plumber who earned 6-figures and the guy hadn't touched a used toilet in years, why? Because the shortage of trades is so prevalent that he could opt not to unclog toilets and sinks because he had enough work fitting boilers and maintaining heating and gas systems that the usual "bread and butter" of a plumbers job didn't even touch the side plate of his finances. What happens to the university grads? Well my local supermarket had a nice selection of degree qualified workers. The guy who worked the Deli counter had a degree in forensics, one of the stock boys I knew personally and he had a degree in economics. I don't know the situation in the US, but job selection for degree students in the UK can be seriously hyper-competitive in many areas. If you lose your job, for whatever reason, there can be literally no other job on the market because there's already a dozen workers with lower pay expectations. This, sadly, leaves jobs in the trades wide open and the governments have to bring in immigrants, often training them up in the process to do the job. The government, at least in the UK, needs to organize its departments. Education isn't serving the industries, which increases immigration and increases unemployment of those born with citizenship.

Why wouldn't publix leap at the opportunity and at least make him manager of the store. I can't imagine they get many MBAs at that level. Why not actually put his skills to good use?

andrewljohnson 17y ago

You're assuming he has a lot of skills. I have a business degree myself, and it wasn't very hard to get, and it doesn't guarantee I'm good at any one useful thing. He may have gotten laid off from his six-figure job because of the economy, but if he's capable, he should be able to move down the chain, but stay a little above bag-boy at Publix. Why can't he get a lower-paying office job? What's this guy's real story? Maybe it has more to do with unwillingness to relocate and the state of the micro-economy he lives in.

electromagnetic 17y ago
I know in the UK there was a big problem with degree programs. The UK government has 'encouraged' so many students to go to universities to get degrees that it has destroyed many industries. I worked on several jobs with a plumber who earned 6-figures and the guy hadn't touched a used toilet in years, why? Because the shortage of trades is so prevalent that he could opt not to unclog toilets and sinks because he had enough work fitting boilers and maintaining heating and gas systems that the usual "bread and butter" of a plumbers job didn't even touch the side plate of his finances. What happens to the university grads? Well my local supermarket had a nice selection of degree qualified workers. The guy who worked the Deli counter had a degree in forensics, one of the stock boys I knew personally and he had a degree in economics. I don't know the situation in the US, but job selection for degree students in the UK can be seriously hyper-competitive in many areas. If you lose your job, for whatever reason, there can be literally no other job on the market because there's already a dozen workers with lower pay expectations. This, sadly, leaves jobs in the trades wide open and the governments have to bring in immigrants, often training them up in the process to do the job. The government, at least in the UK, needs to organize its departments. Education isn't serving the industries, which increases immigration and increases unemployment of those born with citizenship.