Dont you love when your company hires people with less education than the job requires

[La Lioness Priyanka]

and then leaves you to deal with them?

because i just love it.

[guitar man]

1. tell me about it

We seem to be an unofficial school of some kind. Hire 'em cheap and underqualified then leave me to train them from scratch. Oh, and I have to fit my regular duties in somewhere while training people, and manage to get it all done in 40 hours x(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i hear ya

:)

[Zavulon]

3. I just had an administrative assistant ask me

how to make labels. Again, she was hired as an administrative assistant.

Because she didn't know how to make labels, I couldn't resist: I drummed up an old letter, changed the date, sent her a soft copy and asked her to print out three copies on letterhead. I knew she wouldn't be able to figure it out, and I was right.

Yep, I love it, too.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i understand.

kind of like hanging up on clients "because they were rude"

dude, we hired you for customer service. what do you want?

[Coyote_Bandit]

5. I am

well educated and can't find work. Even the headhunters have advised me to start my own business rather than look for traditional employment.

Sorry to say, but I take some sadistic pleasure in your misery training the uneducated and unskilled folks your bosses have hired. Nothing personal.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. you shouldnt. it just means i am UNDER employed.

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. No doubt

you are underemployed and expected to assume responsibilities far beyond those defined in your job description. Unfortunately, hard work, skills, education, and work experience are not necessarily recognized or rewarded. Life isn't always fair. Sorry you are being used. If you don't like it then you can always come and join me out on the margins of the workforce and be self-employed. There are great risks - and great rewards.

I still take some sadistic pleasure knowing that your employer will reap the consequences of his folly. Both you and your co-worker are far less productive and satisfied in your work than you could be.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i get it. i thought your sadism was directed towards me.

i am sad enough already

[Coyote_Bandit]

12. Nothing personal

I understand exactly where you're coming from. I'd be frustrated too.

:argh:

[conscious evolution]

15. "be self-employed."

Good advice here.
I started my own business last year and it has been worth it.
I get to make my own hours.
If I don't like a project or anyone involved I can pass it by.
I make more money working less hours.
It has cut way down the number of morans I have to deal with.

Sure there are risks involved and it can be stressfull at times but that goes along with any job-as employee or owner.

[unpossibles]

7. oh yeah

actually, I don't care about the education level as long as they are experienced or competent enough to make up for it.

I am currently dealing with someone like that right now. I suppose I am jealous, because I would love to be overpaid for a job I am not qualified to do. How does one go about getting such a job?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i meant education holistically. as in on the job education, formal education.

any form of education.

[unpossibles]

10. gotcha

which covers the experience/competence side. Sorry. I am neck deep in BS right now dealing with the same issue at work right now, and misunderstood.

[Darth_Kitten]

13. I've had dumb co-workers tossed my way for years.......

they are quite annoying. :( I particularly love when I can't do my work because I'm too busy cleaning up the crap they leave behind them.

[edbermac]

14. Hell no! I'd be unemployed if they didn't!

:7

[DarkTirade]

16. Well damn, if companies are willing to do that, then why haven't I been able to get

a better job yet? :P