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It’s a big risk these days to do downward movement.
It is a bigger risk to have a gap in employment. Employers discriminate against those who are out of work. Those employers stereotype those who are currently working as "top talent" that have to be poached and stereotype those who are out of work as worth less.
Well, he had the meeting. The polite answer was 'Sorry, but you're overqualified for the position"..(WTF?) The honest answer from the president was "Are you #$%^& kidding me? You take a cut in pay for this? I won't approve it!"
It’s a big risk these days to do downward movement. Mainly because companies now layoff from the bottom up instead of the top down in most places
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen useless management avoid the axe while valuable workers are shown the door
It depends. In one case, a managers got axed when software went into maintaenence mode (which can be typical for in that cycle). This is rumored to have saved the company about $350K given their combined salaries and benefits. OTOH, sometimes it's the middle management that gets the axe. Upper management can't fire the "grunt workers" b/c they're doing all the work. OTOH, they don't want to fire themselves (as the decision makers, they have that option).
Well, he had the meeting. The polite answer was 'Sorry, but you're overqualified for the position"..(WTF?) The honest answer from the president was "Are you #$%^& kidding me? You take a cut in pay for this? I won't approve it!"
So he's still the supervisor....
Overqualified = "I judged based on false stereotypes and did not use any facts in my decision"
Interesting night last night. I was chatting with the supervisor who admitted he put in for mold tech position and I asked him why. He admitted the BS from above was bothering him and he had gotten tired of it. But he said he's be talking to the manager (Owner) about being "Supervisor (Mold Tech trainee)"
"I am not so concerned with the pay, I WANT the knowledge" he said. Reasons mainly as he could handle the little things and let the tech deal with the bigger issues.
Rare to have someone like that around. Would you learn part of another job just for the knowledge, even if it meant you'd get no increase in pay or position?
no becasue I can teach myself anything I want to know with youtube or text books, unless I had access to the equipment to do side projects that saved me money or allowed me to develop my own product and build a proto type and conduct a proof of concept test and then start a buisenss.
This would have to be a VERY expensive piece of equipment (such as nice VMC CNC machines, etc). If I had access to a VMC CNC to proto type out my own ideas for free (other than stock material) would be huge.
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