- Oct 9, 1999
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Yeah, I can't send this, and I can't tell him this. I'll just live with the angry employee until he gets over it.
To my employee:
I am not irritated that you want to help your kid get a job now that he's graduated from college. And I know that we have an opening for someone to work on digitizing old paper records into PDFs.
Unfortunately, your kid thinks that job is worth $40,000 a year. That's his expected salary, according to his application. That is about $20 an hour to do a job that does not really require a college degree. My budget for the job is $14 an hour. I'd like to hire someone who doesn't really have an opportunity to do better, who doesn't have a degree, who maybe once had a manufacturing job now being done by someone in China. I know $14 an hour is not a lot of money, but I don't have a lot of openings for people who really need a steady job with good benefits but don't have a degree. I was lucky I talked people out of outsourcing it to some company who would have people do it for minimum wage.
So if I hire your kid, he's going to feel terribly underpaid. He is going to be gone at the first opportunity to make more money, and I'll end up having to hire someone else and train them. You and I both know he doesn't intend to stay here, he only wants to have some income until he finds something in his field. And if I don't hire him, you're going to be upset with me because he could do the job (as could almost anyone) and instead of hiring your kid I hire someone else.
Hiring him is not the right move, and by not hiring him I'm going to have an angry employee. I have no way to win in this situation. It's too late now, but perhaps things would have been a bit easier for your kid had he not taken out $45,000 in college loans to get a degree in video game design. I'm sure he had a lot of fun during his college years. I enjoy video games myself. But I would not have taken on massive debt to get a degree with such minimal job opportunities. It would have been smart for you to talk him into something a bit more mainstream, or checked into the school's success in placing graduates in this niche field.
Sorry.
I am not irritated that you want to help your kid get a job now that he's graduated from college. And I know that we have an opening for someone to work on digitizing old paper records into PDFs.
Unfortunately, your kid thinks that job is worth $40,000 a year. That's his expected salary, according to his application. That is about $20 an hour to do a job that does not really require a college degree. My budget for the job is $14 an hour. I'd like to hire someone who doesn't really have an opportunity to do better, who doesn't have a degree, who maybe once had a manufacturing job now being done by someone in China. I know $14 an hour is not a lot of money, but I don't have a lot of openings for people who really need a steady job with good benefits but don't have a degree. I was lucky I talked people out of outsourcing it to some company who would have people do it for minimum wage.
So if I hire your kid, he's going to feel terribly underpaid. He is going to be gone at the first opportunity to make more money, and I'll end up having to hire someone else and train them. You and I both know he doesn't intend to stay here, he only wants to have some income until he finds something in his field. And if I don't hire him, you're going to be upset with me because he could do the job (as could almost anyone) and instead of hiring your kid I hire someone else.
Hiring him is not the right move, and by not hiring him I'm going to have an angry employee. I have no way to win in this situation. It's too late now, but perhaps things would have been a bit easier for your kid had he not taken out $45,000 in college loans to get a degree in video game design. I'm sure he had a lot of fun during his college years. I enjoy video games myself. But I would not have taken on massive debt to get a degree with such minimal job opportunities. It would have been smart for you to talk him into something a bit more mainstream, or checked into the school's success in placing graduates in this niche field.
Sorry.
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