very sweet of you, cicero.

I finally have a moving date, still struggling to get my stuff into boxes.

My company does the indentured servitude bit, kinda.

If we train you from square one, you are indebted for $10,000. We will give you a job at a given pay rate and you must work at it for two years. If you complete the two years, the debt is cleared. If you work one year and 364 days, then quit, you owe the whole debt.

The pay rate is the same as a driver who trained elsewhere gets.

I make sure the people who want to be like me understand this. Two so far have gone for the brass ring. Time will tell if they stay or not.

Brian

There is a law firm here in DC that pays its employees poorly, but dangles a HUGE bonus in front of them when they finish the fiscal year. They have a reputation of forcing their people to work unusually long hours. A real sweatshop.

If you believe the stories, each year, the day after the bonuses go out, they get resignations from something like 10%-20% of their employees. Seems like a pretty crazy business model. Instead of having people come and go throughout the year, they have a massive turnover all at once.

maybe they figure they can plan for that sort of thing based on previous years? Sounds like it'd work on the face of it, although I'm sure there's a lot more to it.