Dragan,

>>Understood... We have some junior programmers at our location that are paid less but since they work for me I can guarantee you that if they earn it and as we have the power to increase their wages I'll do everything in my power to raise them. It drives me nuts whena company is so shortsighted to do as you mention..
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>Back home, some 15 years ago, our vice-CEO once said (keep in mind it was in the times of self-management socialism) "we must keep our programmers well-paid... after all, we should decide whether we keep a data processing plant or a training center".
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>But nobody was listening to him - except my boss, who couldn't influence the matters - and while I was there, two of the better guys left; I stayed less than three years, and in the next three years, even the kids who were my apprentices have left. Another two years later the company dissolved (it was a local retail conglomerate which was politically forced to unite - and then was allowed to split again).
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>Then I came here and saw an even worse picture. After only eighteen months here, the list of people who worked for this company longer than I was as half as short compared to the list of people whom I saw leaving. In the end, there were only six people (four of them owners) left on the first list. In a little more than a year I achieved a de facto veteran status. The net loss can be easily calculated - multiply the number of newbies by average two weeks of learning plus about three net days of the time others have to set aside for teaching them. Add the number of weeks someone who announced a resignation still sits there and just cleans up the machine and writes the docs for the next guy...


Yup.. Shortsightedness breeds Chapter 7s, 11s & 13s <g>