Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> I agree that employees are costly - but I still believe that managers
> want to avoid layoffs as much as possible. It's bad for moral, it's HARD
> to hire people back - because getting open reqs for poistions is tough -
> and bringing in new people is always an unknown variable that can throw
> a wrench in an otherwise smoothly running machine.

I don't think that employees are as costly as they look on paper. By
employee, I mean good employee. Do-nothing employees are worthless, I
agree.

I have made back my salary in every job that I have had in the last five
years. For example, I did some checking around on the boss' estimates of
equipment, and I saved thousands in a matter of hours. I did some english
grammer checking for a third of market price for the same work.
Another plug poster saved thousands by installing linux on a server. And
so on.

Some jobs just need to get done so to fire a good employee because the
budget is tight is going to lose money. So it's assinine to think that
employees are an expense while the really are an asset.

Fred

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