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My grandpa (also in Brazil) studied until he was 11. He started his carrer cleaning the floor of a store that sold radio equipment. Learned radio electronics,
by pid-1 4y ago
My grandpa (also in Brazil) studied until he was 11.
He started his carrer cleaning the floor of a store that sold radio equipment.
Learned radio electronics, started fixing stuff for the store, was hired by an airline, travelled the country designing and fixing communication systems for airports.
He had copies of technical books and manuals originally written in English, German and Japanese he translated himself.
Everytime I see modern hiring pipelines I think why the fuck we don't believe in people anymore.
- oblio 4y agoThe funky thing is that companies blaming it on "being hard to fire people". Even in the US, where many jobs are "at will employment", where people can just be fired on a moments notice...
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoHave you ever been an employer or otherwise responsible for hiring/firing people? Even in "at will" states you'd be a moron to not dot your Is and cross your Ts. The cost of fending off a wrongful termination suit is high enough the wages you pay in the meantime are usually the sensible way to go even though a wrongful termination suit is not a sure thing while the wages are. The only people who can fire fast anymore are big national franchises who can incur the high up front cost of having a legal department figure out how to streamline the dotting and crossing process for their specific case.
- brnt 4y agoLearning on the job: it's cheaper to outsource that to (publicly funded) schooling/academia. Also, which co is actually keeping people for that long nowadays anymore?
- bluGill 4y agoMy response to the last is what if you don't train people and they stay anyway?