OnlyMe Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Our new economy is unreal. http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/200...me+teachers.htm IBM to help staff leave and train to become teachers IBM is planning to launch a scheme that encourages its employees to leave the business and pursue a career in teaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 FUD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeFall Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 FUD Is that FUD as in Fear Uncertainty and Doubt?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 It sure is. I once got invited to a dinner held by a couple of IBM workers. It turned into, IMPO, a Moonie style brainwashing session. FUD in action is sure a bizarre experience to undergo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ʎqɐqɹǝʞɐɥs Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Is that FUD as in Fear Uncertainty and Doubt?? No its Fud as in 'Fanta Fud!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeFall Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 It sure is. I once got invited to a dinner held by a couple of IBM workers. It turned into, IMPO, a Moonie style brainwashing session. FUD in action is sure a bizarre experience to undergo. It's something that I've used in my work as well - it's amazing the speed of response you can acheive when you remove the supporting pillars from peoples irrational beliefs. Not sure I'd find it necessary at a dinner party however..."are you sure you should be eating the seafood"??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 (edited) Thats sad news Being a skeptic - is it a PR exercise so people dont get angry with IBM?? Or are they really serious about training them properly. I dont know if past experience and training with IBM makes you an ideal type of person for teaching...(and I know you;ve got to have the right communicational skills!) I suppose we are short of teachers and if they all get a job then that benefits us all. However its cheaper to send everyone a memo - YOUR'E FIRED! Edited October 17, 2005 by trev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swipe Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Our new economy is unreal. http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/200...me+teachers.htm IBM to help staff leave and train to become teachers IBM is planning to launch a scheme that encourages its employees to leave the business and pursue a career in teaching. Funnily enough, a friend of a friend worked at IBM and has quit to become a teacher. I didn't think the two were connected though until your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 However its cheaper to send everyone a memo - YOUR'E FIRED! Are you sure? I'd have thought retraining would often be cheaper than redundancy payments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Lol you are more of a skeptic than me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munimula Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Our new economy is unreal. http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/200...me+teachers.htm IBM to help staff leave and train to become teachers IBM is planning to launch a scheme that encourages its employees to leave the business and pursue a career in teaching. A friend did a teacher training course last year, he's not going into teaching now though! He couldn't believe how bad things really are in schools today. Apparently the kids could swear freely but teachers would be reported by the kids for swearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 He couldn't believe how bad things really are in schools today. Apparently the kids could swear freely but teachers would be reported by the kids for swearing. In any case, a man would have to be mad to take a job as a teacher when some teenage chav slapper could destroy his life just be claiming that he groped her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 IBM supports people becoming teachers who then send their brightest and most gifted along to IBM. Safeguards future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomadd Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 It sure is. I once got invited to a dinner held by a couple of IBM workers. It turned into, IMPO, a Moonie style brainwashing session. FUD in action is sure a bizarre experience to undergo. I've been working with IBM's own 'consultants' for the last 5 years, and it seems you have to be a brainwashed moonie before they will employ you. Think about it: you can earn 3 times as much money working as an independent consultant than you can working for IBM, so what sort of fool does it take to work for IBM? - especially as they'll let you go at the drop of a hat anyway. The days of 'a job at IBM is a job for life' are long since gone. Nomadd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Apparently the kids could swear freely but teachers would be reported by the kids for swearing. I would hate to be a teacher in todays no morale PC society. Why is it CHAVs always come up to you and ask you the time eh???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Why is it CHAVs always come up to you and ask you the time eh???? So they can see whether your watch is worth nicking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Ah scum! I dont wear a watch and dont have the pleasure of being robbed. Sometimes they ask if they can have 20p for the bus home. I say I dont carry my money...... I am a bad person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpico Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Have a friend in the U.K who tells me she took course in self defence because they don't teach anymore only execise riot control, she was bloody serious as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saving For a Space Ship Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 In any case, a man would have to be mad to take a job as a teacher when some teenage chav slapper could destroy his life just be claiming that he groped her. Got to agree with that, had a flatmate doing a teacher training course with young teenagers, the experience nearly gave them a breakdown. Wheres it going to end though ? robo-teachers & tasar stun guns or 'you can't sue me for any reason disclaimers / contracts (if such a thing is possible ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Even teachers are dodgey On the news the other day I think in Leeds, a 24 female teacher was alledgely have been acting in appropriately. She had been calling all her boys nick names like, my little sausage, or cherub, and had been kissing a 15 old boy with tongues and everything. She had also been alledged to have been flashing her cleavage and wearing low cut tops.... Not in my day - we had the cane! (no I am not into that....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unamerican Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 FUD i am intrigued please elaborate, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BandWagon Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 (edited) I know a few people who have left HP (computers, not sauce) They were offered a retraining instead of redundancy, ie you want to become a teacher instead of learning to speak Hindi, we'll pay for a part of the training. Quite a nice idea I think, but the cynical part of me would suspect that it was probably cheaper for the company. Actually teaching people to speak Hindi just might be the ticket! Edited October 17, 2005 by BandWagon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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