Into your new job....

I was having dinner with some of my Gen-X friends or are they bordering the Baby Boomer generation? Sam was telling me about an interview with one of the candidates, a fresh graduate, that he offered him a starting pay of RM1,600. The guy requested for an additional RM200, so Sam retorted that he has to prove to him that he deserves the additional sum. The poor chap tried to demonstrate his capability by explaining what he actually done for his univ and his many achievements. Sam however did not gave him a damn insisting that what a person learns in univ is nothing but just education and academics.....and a piece of paper to show, he would have to unlearn (ie. bring him back to earth) the person before teaching him all over again to achieve success in this very competitive world. Wait, he then requested the poor chap to show him how to fax 5 pieces of papers to another party. The poor chap actually took more than 25 mins to do just that! Sam then explained to him that is why he must learn from him.....and the best part for him as Sam hammered home the point...."that's way you have not learn anything yet about the real world....!"

I told Sam that he is abit weird and tha fax part was nothing but an off beat thing not suitable for this era...the industry actually don't need a fax anymore. We now scan the documents to the desktop, save the images and then email to the party concerned. This process would help kill two birds with one stone....that's how the gen-Y world is all about.

KS agreed that Sam is indeed outdated....but he was equally shy when his subordinate (a Gen-Y) told him that he need not print his email including attachment piece by piece and then scan the document into his desktop for archiving....what he can do is just print the emails with cute.pdf (a free software) into a pdf image file. He was amaze how things have changed....and it has to take a fresh graduate to tell him how to do it!

There you go....those gen-Y graduates do deserve the additional RM200....it is theirs to keep.

Cheers....