I usually voice my support for business issues and call BS on pandering politicians shaking down businesses for more tax money, regulations and general class warfare. However, I’ve also got to call BS when I see it when the mainstream media keeps purporting that businesses just can’t get enough high skilled workers to run their businesses. That is a lie.
See Why the Biggest Lie of 2012 is the High Tech Worker Shortage
Love it. I never understood why companies insisted on having ALL of their offices and employees in the highest priced areas around. Not only that, I never understood why employers of technical people insisted they come into work to use their computers.
I guarantee you, your tech guy’s comp at home is far far superior to the thing you give at work.
I think its because middle-managment desperately needs a reason for existing, if they can’t lean on cubicles with their coffee in hand and harass their employees then they might lose their jobs!
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You are correct.
There is no shortage. I’m a VERY experienced Software Engineer. Math and Computer Science PHD’s. All I can get for over two years are shitty 3 – 6 month contract work at some site far way from where I live, and I WILL NOT travel 5 days a week any more. I’m simply too old to do that.
The contracts I’m offered are 1099 work for shit pay, and fully half of that get’s eaten by taxes. Can”t find full time W-2 work in OVER TWO YEARS. It’s the 35 year experience that kills me, and I cannot dumb down the resume it’s far too easy to catch. Companies can hire 5 new grads for what I should make, or ship the work off to India, and they know I’m gone for 5 grand more. No offers, very few callbacks. Half the jobs on the recruiter sites are NOT EVEN REAL. They end up trying to sell me training?
I have MANY contacts in the same situation. It’s just bullshit. Stinks. Big time. Not getting better, I’ve been essentially “retired,” unwillingly.
Experienced Tech Worker,
Have you considered starting your own company? Or partnering with someone? I have a partner that is limited in his software skills. We need help but cannot pay. Maybe help for %?
WIP,
Yes, I have considered it. It’s just not possible for the work in my area of expertise unless I can pick up LARGE project outsourcing from existing companies. Buying an existing, profitable, private business would work. This could take tens of millions, and I don’t have that kind of cash laying around. I’ve looked onto it.
Work for equity is the best I can do, the buy in can be large there as well.
So, I rack my brain for a good idea to start a business. I’ll lose money most likely for at least 5 years (that’s about the norm) and that’s IF I can get financing. A big if that. I have a few decent ideas. Becoming profitable almost immediately, really tough. Simple “web work” just won’t do it when a 15 year old can slap a site together in mere days.
What’s not understood by HR is that people like me can hit the ground running and be instantly productive, and it will take at least a year to get noobs up to speed most of the time. By noob I mean a 5 year programmer who has A LOT to learn, things I already know.
Don’t mean to “toot my own horn” so to speak in any way, it’s just very complex work that I do, and HR does not care, they just look at numbers, not experience and capabilities.
Well ,just don’t plan on getting that auto plant gig ’til the tech sector recovers
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47614988
At the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama more than 20,000 people have applied for one of the 877 job openings.
The surge of people applying may seem unusual, but it’s not.
Take a look:
Last summer Ford had more than 18,000 people apply for one of 1,800 jobs at the retooled Louisville plant. That plant will open and start building the Edge SUV in mid-June.
In 2011, more than 41,000 applied for one of the 1,300 positions at the new Toyota plant in Tupelo, Mississippi.
In 2009, more than 65,000 applied for one of the 2,700 jobs at the new Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN. Since opening, that plant has added shifts and is currently hiring another 820 workers.
The adds that state one thing then offer something totaly different suck.
I hate to admit it, but I’m one of those “noobs” that is taking a job position away from a more experienced worker.
My actual title is “Assistant Director of Research and Development”. The pay is decent, however its about 20-30k less than what someone with experience would command. Due to that massive pay difference my employer was willing to accept that there is going to be a learning period in a lot of ways.
Were I the CEO of this company I would have spent the extra money and got a known quantity. For a n00b I’m about as low risk as you can get, but that still doesn’t replace what you get with someone with 10-15 years of experience in the field.
Luckily I bring some other things to the table, so hopefully I can prove to the Director and CEO that I might be a n00b in biological R&D but I’m a whiz at applied analytical chemistry….at least it would make me feel better about getting the job. Especially considering what all of my co-graduates are getting paid/asked to do.
Experienced Tech Worker,
How can I get in contact with you?
I am a software engineer at a large company. I feel like a dead man walking. Why? Outsourcing to India coupled with the management team that are all Indian as well (eng manager sr director, VP).
My time is numbered I am sure.
BTW: They write shit code – no design documentation or comments in the code – just the Bombay stream of consciousness and the Calcutta frenetic K-OS. They can get 80% of the functionality fast, but it fails as a product.
And I have to fix their bugs – Fucking nightmare in a multi-threaded, multi processor box.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-livermorium-flerovium-periodic-table-elements.html
(Phys.org) — The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.
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For TPC, natch,
My building’s full of the (I presume) H1-B visa workers. They all come in together and only associate with each other. I wonder how much less they’re paying them through contract agency than a typical full time employee. Can’t totally blame the company for trying to cut costs, but genuinely curious.
I was searching for mobile app vendors online and came across a site called “everyday tasks”
Its an org in India that supposedly employs people with MBA’s who will write a business plan, do your taxes, create a mobile app for the princely sum of $6 an hour.
Their customers are American small business owners. I have no idea of the quality of work but c’mon. Six bucks an hour is sub-minimum wage – for the services of an MBA grad?
Not good. On so many levels.
There is a shortage of high tech kiss asses that do everything that they are told to do and are as creative as a stump.
There is no shortage of citizens willing to operate systems and write code.
Given that they are not part of the few people who are CHOSEN WORKERS that work their ass off and have been awarded contract after contract. Call it elite. Z(It is most of them are type A and narcissistic dicks with credentials. ) if you want BUT you ain’t getting the “Keys to the Kingdom ” without knowing someone who knows someone who knows SOMEBODY who works as the administrator.
Okay enough of that point is some asshole human resources executives are CHERRY PICKING DAILY and many diamonds in the rough sit around and gather time and create insurmountable gaps in employment that scream out “we know what side of the fence your from “.
Dude if what you say is truth you are at their control crossroads and they want you to put all your chips on the table and play or call their bluff I say you pull a 101 California commando raid. JUST KIDDING. DON’T DO THAT, YET!!!! Maybe a vacation to relieve the stress of being so lucky to have time off.
That’s it a PAID vacation within A GIANT SUBSIDIZED UNEMPLOYMENT RUN.
Why not just be super frigging eccentric and go for it.
Naw that’s not suppose to mess with your Psyche.
NOT MUCH
MBA. MBA MBA MBA
Screw the FUCKING MBAs how about four years of education and experience Beyond one of those snot nosed narcissistic brats.
The fact is, only 3 of every 10 programmers are worth a rip. I can’t tell you how many CS degree holding candidates come into to my business for an interview and can’t code their way out of a wet paper bag. Even people with 10 or more years of experienced get thrown off by a simple recursive exercise. Yes, there is no shortage of crap developers, but there’s a hell of a shortage of talented developers.
@The Man
/* fuckity fuck fuck.c
* a simple C reCURSEive program
*/
#include
#define LAST 10
int main()
{
int i, sum = 0;
for ( i = 1; i <= LAST; i++ ) {
sum += i;
} /*-for-*/
printf("Fuck You Asshole", sum);
return 0;
}
Well, not exactly recursive but close enough. Do I get the job?
I am cracking myself up. I forgot about this post
I was in one of my cynical moods.
The cherry picking has increased
The executives worried about bad PR after the recession really don’t give a damn what ya think now HUH?