Cheap 22 yr olds out of school

I used to work for a startup that used those cheap 22 yr olds fresh out of college.
Some of them didn't even have coding on their transcript, but the company assumed that
I, a woman on a higher level, will somehow "train them on the job".
Nope they didn't learn enough to keep us going. There was no time for that, there was
always deadlines and rush rush rush.
The projects flunked.
Eventually **** The startup flunked. ****

My good friend works for a huge company that spent 40 mil USD on software that is written and maintained by those 22 yr olds straight from college. They are probably cheap.
That software has major problems and is not working in the field.
THE WHOLE 40mil PROJECT FAILED.
This is a conversation those kids had at work in the cubicle next to my friend:
"What is interface?"
"... Um... interface is when you interface something."

My friend also used to work for a large company that employed all E. European immigrants for dirt cheap and held them at work as if in prison. With all kinds of stupid rules etc. My friend got his green card and then escaped to a better company. However, they asked him to come back for a good sum of money because he is the only one who knows what is happening and can actually code. He is totally not convinced that they wouldn't use him and throw him out, so he is asking for LOTS of money, 1yr contract, and is going to open his own company afterwords.

That same company also employed some consultants from India who took their money and disappeared. There was no communication. That project just died.

Every time I called earthlink or whatever other tech support and got someone from India or wherever to help me, they are completely incompetent and NEVER were able to solve ANY of the technical problems. I always fix it myself.
Last time I spent 2 hrs with someone on line and finally *** I *** found the bug.
It was very simple: I was using webmail and then downloaded my mail several times into Outlook. Everything I downloaded after the 1st try disappeared. But - Outlook sorts mail by date when it was received, not when it was downloaded. After 2 hours, I finally saw those "missing" emails in the midst of my email. IF TECH SUPPORT DOESN"T KNOW THIS SIMPLE THING, what kind of tech support are they????

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Obviously, I totally do NOT believe in paying cheap labor, because you get what you pay for. Cheap labor is good for some things, but it cannot be the whole game you play, or else you pay dearly for it.

Paying cheap labor and exploiting others is a way to cover incompetency of the local managers. For example, the company that only employs 22yr olds is because the manager is stupid and needs incompetent people in order to puff himself up. It is easy to intimidate and keep down a 22yr old straight out of college. The person has no experience and needs guidance.

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This is the same old story as always - exploitation on planet Earth because human race is just below worthy of being called evolved.

So exploitation of women, children, different colors, religions, anything that is different and doesn't have as many "guns and ships" than whoever has "most guns and ships" at the moment and thus feels free to bully others.

The story of how women are not promoted up is that same exploitation story.

But the fascinating thing is how this is showing how the USA does not practice what it preaches. It always preached heavy duty capitalism, "the best wins," which worked so far because there was nobody to compete with. Suddenly it is finding itself in a playing field with other people very capable of winning. India, China, Russia all have SUPER good education and can compete very well. Japan already "won".

This really is a call for a much wiser way of doing things, the "wise woman way" if you wish to call it to distingusih it from the current "slash and burn" egoistical way of thinking propagated by most men (and women) in power. Capable men (and women) think in the "wise woman way".

One good thing about all this is that more jobs etc for cheap 22yr olds out of college and for outsourcing to the developing countries means more freedom for women who get those jobs. That part is truly changing the world.



>> In America, there is a shortage of cheap 22-year-olds
>> fresh out of college with exactly the right list of 14 languages
>> and 27 technologies on their resumes, but that
>> is solved using H1B and paying them below market rates,
>> males or females.

>> There is a shortage of people who can do computers AND something else, like
>> computers and biology, computers and business, etc.