In Search of Ignorance
Sunday, March 30, 2003
More on Poster Puppet and the remnants of the dot com era. Sad results of this ignorance and arrogance are inflation of self-value and the hyper inflation of salary expectations. Just because a fool running a failed dot com, hemorraghing someone else's money faster than a gunshot victim, offered a recent college graduate with virtually no experience or even record of accomplishment a huge salary, does that entitle the individual to receive a permanently inflated salary? No! This defies the laws of economics. The dot com era also made titles, long the reward of years of work, worthless. We instead have a business landscape that is littered with Directors of First Impressions -- receptionists. It used to be shoe shine humor, that the shoe shiner was a footwear maintenance engineer. It was a jest. Perhaps the dot commers will discover that much of their career has been a series of cruel jokes --- hyperinflated salaries, inflated titles, just waiting for someone to hit the punch line.
I read that more than two-thirds of those looking for jobs have in fact turned down a job because the salary was not what wes expected. The joke has not set in yet, the punch line is missed, the old rules are now being applied. You are paid based on value of your contribution to the organization, not the size of your lifestyle. Readjustments are occurring, but what lies ahead.
