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<blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6204664" data-attributes="member: 89838">Again, all of that fails to take into account the devastation of the collapsed economy, and that people are desperate for work. Some are even willing to (shudder) move to Texas. Remember when the dot-coms became dot-bombs, and suddenly all these highly trained tech people were unemployed? They glutted the market taking whatever jobs they could find. Remember that? And how suddenly there were employees at Fry's Electronics who actually knew something about the products? Sound familiar at all? That's the situation again here.Yes, hiring someone is a risk for the company. Employees are both an asset and a liability. If, however, you have a PhD willing to flip burgers because he/she needs income, sure, it would (hopefully for him/her) be short term, but isn't that the case with any burger flipper?Again, I'm not talking about under educated High school kids, but people with technical skills and college degrees. People who are motivated and want to work. (Yes, there are the lazy people happy to collect unemployment and whatnot, but I hope they are the exception.)How is having additional skills (say, both Illustrator and CorelDraw) a bad thing? Knowledge/training of two pieces of software that do the same thing can be handy for troubleshooting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sabrinathecat, post: 6204664, member: 89838"] Again, all of that fails to take into account the devastation of the collapsed economy, and that people are desperate for work. Some are even willing to (shudder) move to Texas. Remember when the dot-coms became dot-bombs, and suddenly all these highly trained tech people were unemployed? They glutted the market taking whatever jobs they could find. Remember that? And how suddenly there were employees at Fry's Electronics who actually knew something about the products? Sound familiar at all? That's the situation again here. Yes, hiring someone is a risk for the company. Employees are both an asset and a liability. If, however, you have a PhD willing to flip burgers because he/she needs income, sure, it would (hopefully for him/her) be short term, but isn't that the case with any burger flipper? Again, I'm not talking about under educated High school kids, but people with technical skills and college degrees. People who are motivated and want to work. (Yes, there are the lazy people happy to collect unemployment and whatnot, but I hope they are the exception.) How is having additional skills (say, both Illustrator and CorelDraw) a bad thing? Knowledge/training of two pieces of software that do the same thing can be handy for troubleshooting. [/QUOTE]

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