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Keeping hold of electronics engineers.
Faringdon:
Hi,
Have you noticed unusual methods used to keep electronics engineers?
I went to visit a friend who was working at an electronics co. We were in starbucks, and the ex personnel officer of his electronics company was also in there and we started chatting. She told us , something that she had told him, ie, that the company, had offered a particular member of staff in the company, an extra £25k per year in wages for every year that my friend, the electronics engineer , was still at the company.
…Kind of, as an Electronics engineer, if you are valuable to the company, that cannot ever get you a pay rise….the company will still fear you leaving (that’s the only reason pay rises are given in the first place)…so the companys, in some cases it seems, have taken to paying others to keep an electronics engineer at a company. Have you also found this?
My friend also says that….he was at a different company where the ops director was ex-Navy ,like himself, …this Ops Director told him that he had been asked , by the MD, to try and get the guy set up with a Phillipino Bride….and arrange for the guy to get screwed over and bankrupted in the process….so that he had no money or resources to use to actually ever get up and go and get a job with a different company.
[The ops guy also told him that the MD had asked the ops director to go with him on the “KFC run” (every Friday they would take turns to go to KFC and bring back chicken dinner for all)……to see how he payed, and to see if he had a credit/debit card, and to report back to the MD if he did/did_not. ]
At a different electronics company, my friend tells me that he had an interview set up with a different electronics company, and had arranged the afternoon off, so he could drive to the interview……but tells me, that when he went into the car park…..his rear tyre had been let down, and the valve had been glued up……luckily he says, the glue had not cured, and so he simply pumped the tyre back up.
In another co, his engine oil had been drained whilst in the company car park on friday of his first week...he only (luckily) realised because he had just moved to the company, and was due to travel back to his old flat to bring his stuff up on the saturday...and checking the oil before a long journey...noticed that the oil had been drained right down. The company was in Scunthorpe, and were naffed off that he had moved to Hull instead of scunthorpe (Scunny).....they considered he might move off again if he wasnt living in Scunny.
It seems that in these days, there are electronics companys who cannot get electronics engineers, since few exist any more, due to the UK’s (insert your own country) reliance on imports of electronics from overeas.
Many say that reliance on China for electronics is funding a country/industrial_region that is actively supplying military hardware (drones, drone jammers etc) to Russia in Ukraine...aswell as causing a weakness in UKs (insert your country) ability to make military hardware.
.....However, the electronics companys that do exist in UK (insert your country), actually fairly secretly rely on a “backroom” electronics importation business to survive (bring in most of the money). They cant be blamed for this…it’s the only way to stay in electronics these days...due to the "system". They also need to run a “token” electronics design and manufacturing business in order to instill in potential customers that they do know about electronics, and are worth placing orders with. It is for this “token” business, that companys seem to struggle to find electronics engineering staff for.
Also, this is also part of the reason for wanting to hold on to electronics engineers in employment….
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/general-analog-electronics-companies-must-stop-killing-themselves/
ataradov:
Same old story. China bad, UK (insert your country) is bad for relying on China. You also have a lot of "friends". Are at least some of them real?
You have a weird fixation on this. This is not healthy.
Gyro:
Oh FFS, twice in one day with the fairytales! ::)
tom66:
No, I have not found this to be true.
BrokenYugo:
I'm fairly certain this account is a bot, troll, or escaped mental patient. And that's just from the threads I inadvertantly click on without checking the author line.
Not applying the banhammer also confuses me, if nothing else all the nonsense threads must screw up the SEO and bring in more bots and BSers.
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