On 19/05/06, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
few months, switch jobs on a whim, etc. It's very difficult to hire and retain good people in any business. Welcome to the real world.
What crap. I don't subscribe to the idea that being a desirable employee gives you a license to be unprofessional. I recently changed jobs. At one point, I was in the position of being holding on to an offer from one company while waiting for an offer from another. At the time I was unemployed and facing some financial pressure. It would have been trivially easy for me to accept one offer, work for a month or two and switch when the other was finalised. I didn't do that because it would be unprofessional. In today's IT job market, employers need to make allowances for the fact that candidates may be evaluating multiple offers. Conversely, people need to realise that a lot of long term planning hangs on the availability of the correct person. Don't say that you're available if you aren't. Finally, maybe I'm old fashioned but I do believe in personal honour. If you make a commitment, you need to live up to it. I really wouldn't want to work with someone who cannot be relied upon to do what he says he would do. And I realised that at 22. -- b
