Is there room for the average employee in this economy?

[MLSFan]

OP doesn't seem to get that "average" is a move scale of who you are surrounded by?

A "smart" student going to med school becomes "average" because the picked all the "smart" students.
An "average" surgeon is still more skilled at surgery than your "average" person too

Just find a company/job you like, and even if you are average at it, learn to do the job well and you can be average at that job but be skilled enough in just doing that one thing and be better than the people that aren't doing the job. Do so long enough and you become "in demand" because now you are "skilled" in doing one or two things that the average person cant

[Malloric]

Originally Posted by eyeb

OP doesn't seem to get that "average" is a move scale of who you are surrounded by?

A "smart" student going to med school becomes "average" because the picked all the "smart" students.
An "average" surgeon is still more skilled at surgery than your "average" person too

Just find a company/job you like, and even if you are average at it, learn to do the job well and you can be average at that job but be skilled enough in just doing that one thing and be better than the people that aren't doing the job. Do so long enough and you become "in demand" because now you are "skilled" in doing one or two things that the average person cant

College is when most of us figured out what it's like being average since we self-selected, generally, into the best schools we could get into. Of course brains aren't all that great a predictor of how well people do in school and even worse as predictor when it comes to work performance.

[thatguydownsouth]

Originally Posted by joe from dayton

Most employees are "average."

And most management is "below average," yet never seem to realize it.

[NickofDiamonds]

Originally Posted by thatguydownsouth

And most management is "below average," yet never seem to realize it.

You hit the nail on the head with that statement.
Where I work, management doesn't know how to manage and are constantly putting the proverbial cart in fron of the horse and then wondering why nothing is happening. They expect people to be on call in the evenings to come back to work or to be able to change shifts to graveyard on one days notice and then change back again after that shift is done with no regard for one's need for sleep. Luckily, we have a union shop so we have a spokesperson to ask the if they really are that desparate or bat**** crazy.
You end up being forced to take vacation time in 1 week increments because there is no backup plan for taking 1 day off. Management freaks out because they don't know what to do if you're not there for one day.
I would go beyond saying that management is below average, I would say they are sociopathic idiots.