My current company always seems to find people as apprentices, interns and what not.
The problem is that these new hires are completely useless, even after training them up. God knows I’m never the smartest or most ambitious person in the room but today, the new girl was talking about her mental ex-wife and the other kid chipped in and used this as an example of how the American health system is broken.
This went on for two hours and their conversational topics transitioned into drug abuse and broken homes, all the while more senior people just tried to get their shit done.
On top of that, neither of them ever come in on time or hit their KPIs even remotely.
Funnily enough, we lost another basket case a few month ago after the training and apprenticeship period because they bloke asked for a £50k salary and preferred to wait for the right opportunity instead. He had no transferable skills before he started and really struggled to develop any while he was working.
I mean, surely, there must be a difference between good qualified people just being fed up with absolute manic employers and those guys, right? What’s your experience and how do you handle it?
I appreciate that this is a very specific problem and doesn’t compare directly to the exploits happening at companies like Starbucks, McDonalds or DHL but I would love to get a grasp of your experience.