I wonder whether the companies that only hire people who are currently employed would also fire any of their existing staff who were looking for a job elsewhere?
The whole thing reminds me of an old story. A young man takes up with an an attractive woman who is married to a older, brutish boor. One thing leads to another and the brute catches them making out.
Honor must be satisfied, so the two men square off for a duel. The young man's aim is true, and he kills the brute, then beds the woman in a celebratory romp. In the afterglow, he asks her why she married such a noxious character.
"Well," she replies, "He won the last duel over me."
I wish these companies well in retaining their hires.
"I wish these companies well in retaining their hires."
I suspect that they aren't very good at that, and are counting on the fact that most of the companies that they would like to hire people from aren't very good at it, either.
Even if that's not correct, it's still staggeringly asinine.
You're preaching to a choirboy! Some of the unemployed have been laid off because they were the most expensive people on staff when a company needed to cut costs. Sometimes that means that the best people were let go. Other times entire departments get the ax because of a power play, so it's a reflection on the lack of political knife fighting skills of a manager several rungs higher up the ladder.
Or the political machinations of lousy management. Not to mention the typical bait and switch that most tech companies pull on talented staff, as was my experience at amazon (which as far as I can tell is the rule there):
Job description: develop a sophisticated new system to replace the barely-functional bug-ridden nightmare we're stuck with now
Actual job duties: wade into the bug-ridden nightmare and add features to the framework that's designed to break as much as possible if you touch anything.
The whole thing reminds me of an old story. A young man takes up with an an attractive woman who is married to a older, brutish boor. One thing leads to another and the brute catches them making out.
Honor must be satisfied, so the two men square off for a duel. The young man's aim is true, and he kills the brute, then beds the woman in a celebratory romp. In the afterglow, he asks her why she married such a noxious character.
"Well," she replies, "He won the last duel over me."
I wish these companies well in retaining their hires.