Posted on 08/18/2005 by LastCubicleontheleft
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Just overheard a conversation about a contract bid. As part of the submission, companies were asked to include information about the key employees expected to work on the project. One of the companies submitting a bid explained that they could not provide employee info yet because their employees don't stick around long enough.
POST A COMMENTmegamania(08/18/2005)
Sounds a LOT like the place I used to work. People were flying out the door, yet the company I worked for continued to bid for contracts and act like tht wasn't the case. They figured they'd just do all the work with offshored workers. CHA.
SouthernProgrammer(08/19/2005)
Re - Employees Flying Out The Door In the mid 90's when it was a workers market we had a hard time retaining talented people at my job. Our turnover rate was 22%! People were leaving (and being hired) daily. Management put out a suggestion box asking how we could retain people and cut costs. I recommended replaing the front doors with one of those "rotating doors" like you see in fancy hotels and hooking that up to a generator to provide power for the company.... Naturally I did not sign my name,....
megamania(08/19/2005)
That's great! LMAO! I am gonna have to suggest that revolving door/power generator idea to my friends that are still at my old company where there is a 50% attrition rate. They can suggest it at one of the company's reoccuring insincere "what-can-we-do-about-morale / have-a-cookie-while-we-make-light-of-the-serious-problems" meetings.
SouthernProgrammer(08/19/2005)
Oh there are lots of funny suggestions you can make. Years ago we had to improve our quality to keep GM as a customer. We met the goal and had a big party and they put out a suggestion box to come up with a new slogan. My anonymous one was: Hey GM, we upped our quality...now up yours! The staff enjoyed that one...
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