<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 22 Dec 2014, at 11:13 pm, Paul Wallace <<a href="mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au" class="">paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">No ... it's simply about the need for the employer to gain a return on investment.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Employees need to get a return on investment too, otherwise they won’t be interested in you.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If I put a lot of time and effort into training myself for an industry, that’s time and effort I haven’t been able to spend on other things, which I’ve invested into myself on the expectation of future profits. If you aren’t interested in providing me with what I need to satisfy my internal ROI, I’m not even going to <i class="">talk</i> to you about employment. You can satisfy yourself with the staff with low self-expectations instead.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Understanding this is the key to hiring staff that you’re actually happy with, instead of staff who make you grizzle about how terrible Gen-Y is. You’re not so entitled that you automatically deserve quality staff, you actually have to work to attract them.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">In Australia the first people to NOT get hired are unfortunately the very young because the min wage is unsustainable.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>lolwut? Who in this industry gets minimum wage? How is any tiny infinitesimal microscopic aspect of that even tangentially related to anything discussed here?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Therefore if you're interested in making life easier on yourselves and your peers then ... over 35' with experience vote left ... and if you're under 35 vote conservative</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Conservatives want unemployed under-30s to go without any income whatsoever for 6 months of the year. So that doesn’t seem like a smart move to me.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Don't blame GenY kids ... blame the people that set the landscape of expectation.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Boomers? Yep, top idea, let’s start with them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>