{"id":1365,"date":"2011-04-05T23:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-04-05T23:47:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:47:28","slug":"if-you-train-your-staff-theres-a-risk-theyll-leave-if-you-dont-theres-a-risk-theyll-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/05\/if-you-train-your-staff-theres-a-risk-theyll-leave-if-you-dont-theres-a-risk-theyll-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"“if you train your staff, there’s a risk they’ll leave; if you don’t, there’s a risk they’ll stay”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On twitter the other day (but Twitter’s crashing at the moment, so I can’t find the original author).<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, came up in a private games-industry forum today too, where someone was actually trying to argue it’s a *good thing* that their employer pays below-standard wages for all engineering staff. WTF?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I think it’s a great quote. Just remember that “train” can be replaced with “pay” and “treat humanely”; a lot of weak company directors (and managers) talk themselves into the idea:<\/p>\n

\n“If I keep my staff downtrodden, lean and mean, and low self-esteem … they’ll be forced to carry on working here, no matter how bad it gets. They won’t have the self-belief needed to leave!”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…but are too scared\/panicked\/stupid\/lazy to think of the obvious immediate side-effect: what kind of product is going to be produced by people in that state of mind? Definitely not “quality”, or anything that will increase the success of the business…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On twitter the other day (but Twitter’s crashing at the moment, so I can’t find the original author). Coincidentally, came up in a private games-industry forum today too, where someone was actually trying to argue it’s a *good thing* that their employer pays below-standard wages for all engineering staff. WTF? Anyway, I think it’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}