Re: Leaving Paradise...
One of the first friends I made here was an engineer. He had moved here around the same time I did. Now he'll be moving back to the Mainland in a month, due to his Honolulu company treating him so shabbily. My friend hasn't had a single raise in the almost three years he has been here, all the people hired at the same time as him quit within a year of being hired, and the company chose to give him more and more responsibilities to make up for those who left, forcing him to pick up the slack, as well as compensate for the inexperience of the new hires. My friend warned his company that he was going to look for a new job, and it wasn't until he had an interview lined up on the Mainland that the company belatedly offered him is overdue raise. It's a matter of too little, too late, however...obviously the company didn't believe him when he said he was ready to leave, and now my friend and his wife are reluctantly packing to leave the island and move to AZ.
It's sad that companies in HI choose to lose good employees like my friend, knowing full well that there are plenty of other young Mainland engineers fresh out of college who will jump at the chance to move to HI--it's a constant source of new workers without the "hassle" of providing them with raises.
One of the first friends I made here was an engineer. He had moved here around the same time I did. Now he'll be moving back to the Mainland in a month, due to his Honolulu company treating him so shabbily. My friend hasn't had a single raise in the almost three years he has been here, all the people hired at the same time as him quit within a year of being hired, and the company chose to give him more and more responsibilities to make up for those who left, forcing him to pick up the slack, as well as compensate for the inexperience of the new hires. My friend warned his company that he was going to look for a new job, and it wasn't until he had an interview lined up on the Mainland that the company belatedly offered him is overdue raise. It's a matter of too little, too late, however...obviously the company didn't believe him when he said he was ready to leave, and now my friend and his wife are reluctantly packing to leave the island and move to AZ.
It's sad that companies in HI choose to lose good employees like my friend, knowing full well that there are plenty of other young Mainland engineers fresh out of college who will jump at the chance to move to HI--it's a constant source of new workers without the "hassle" of providing them with raises.
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