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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
although it is facing a labor shortage for highly qualified positions.
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I always get a good laugh out of this. Do you know how many academics are unemployed? We don't have a shortage of good people. We have a shortage in companies training them!
You have no experience in your job? Sorry we can't take you.
You can't operate SAP? Sorry we can't take you?
If one puts the level of what a person is supposed to be qualified in to unreachable heights then one shouldn't complain that one doesn't get any "good" people. Today companies don't want to invest in their personnel any more. You are supposed to know everything the day you start. That's impossible of course but our glorious managers think it's good for the books and it's cheaper to whine and demand more people from India (who aren't better then we are, but they are at least cheaper).
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The German economy is doing far better than the rest of Europe due to niches in machine tools, construction equipment, and other high-quality capital goods; every factory in China runs on German machine tools. Unlike the 1960s, unskilled immigrants are now more of a burden than a blessing to German industry.
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Actually it's also because wages have dropped here dramatically.
If you sign a new employment contract then you will find really low wages there nowadays. You've got to be happy to get 30.000€ gross pay a year as an academic. I know some who get less. They got 20.400€ a year as academics! I did an intern ship 5 years ago with a company that operates buses and I talked to some of the drivers. The average public service bus driver earned more than that back then. Why did we actually study?
Rant over, now I feel better.
