Ideal Workers / Employees Characteristics 2

[Ashereng]

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I thought I would solicit the other half of the coin/relatinship. What are the traits and characteristics of the ideal employees/workers?

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[ivymike]

Exceptionally talented, hard working, single, healthy, naive, guileless, and dedicated.

 

[ajack1]

Apart from obviously the skills to do the job, someone who treats the company and it’s property the same way as they would like the company to treat them.

 

[jmw]

Is this from an employee's or the employer's perspective?
I think we might find some significant diferences.

JMW

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[MadMango]

Not afraid to ask questions.
Not afraid to question the staus quo.
Not afraid to suggest improvements.

[green]"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."[/green]
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[corus]

I disagree with Ivymike's suggestion that the ideal employee is single as that doesn't generally fit with employer's expectations who prefer someone to be married, ie. generally stable, under control, and doesn't smell.
MadMango's suggestion that the ideal employee questions the staus quo may also be perceived as someone who has the wrong attitude. This may be corrected if the ideal employee was not afraid to ask questions along the lines of 'why doesn't the CEO have a bigger salary?'

I've found that employer's prefer someone to be sociable, amenable, and not 'prickly'. An ability to fall asleep at the desk to appear the next morning as if you've worked overnight is also a plus. Don't take a pillow to work though.

corus

 

[UcfSE]

When working in masonry, employees need only a strong back and a weak mind. Oddly enough, now that I've been in engineering for a while, I've found that employers prefer someone spineless.

 

[ivymike]

I disagree with Ivymike's suggestion that the ideal employee is single

Try relocating a whole family three or four times in five years... Single people can be shipped wherever you need them (especially if they're naive and dedicated).

 

[bradpa77]

I disagree with Ivymike's suggestion that the ideal employee is single

I also disagree. That's a pretty broad statement based on a personal issue and shouldn't have any bearing on how good a worker is. Some single people are great workers, some single people are horrible workers. Some married people are great workers and some married people are horrible workers. It is stereotypical, unfair, and irrelevant to use that as a basis of the potential for an employee. That's why it's illegal to ask if a person is married in an interview.

 

[Ashereng]

Is this from an employee's or the employer's perspective?
I think we might find some significant diferences.

From the employer's perspective.

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[ziggi]

bradpa, apparently it's not illegal here in Canada,b/c I've been asked that question often. The interviewer seems pleased when I tell them that I am. My wife used to work in retail management and apparently a married person was looked on more favourably b/c they will usually show up and work hard in order to carry their weight in the marriage.

 

[Comcokid]

From the employer's perspective???

Do you mean a good or a bad employer's perspective?

I remember the worst employer/boss I ever worked for once complained loudly about the spouses of his employees having too many babies and how the cost was affecting the insurance rates - and that the wives distracted his people from working - all hours of the day - he wanted to hire more single and/or divorced employees!

 

[MrMojito]

Comcokid,

I see that I'm not the only one who has worked for a psychopath.

 

[casseopeia]

Of the three owners where I work, two are psycho. Thankfully the one I report to isn't.

Two Saturdays ago, one of the psycho owners and I tracked down another employee, I'll call him 'Cowboy", who was out of town over the weekend to find out his availability to work in my department (expert witness/litigation) as well as his progress on his work for Psycho Owner (repair documents).

Psycho Owner was very angry that this person decided to go out of the State over his weekend and asked that, in the future, he report his whereabouts during the course of every weekend just in case he is needed in the office. (No, we do not have an on-call program)

Needless to say I got an earful from Cowboy upon his return. So I suggested he let the boss know of his whereabouts, starting on Friday. I also proposed a scenario to describe his whereabouts that included copious amounts of vegetable oil and a couple of barnyard animals for starters.

Sometimes ya just gotta be crazier than the boss.

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[Ashereng]

comcokid,

From the perspective of "if you were the boss". Good or bad, up to you.




casseopeia,

Time to move to Alberta. You can get away from your psycho boss, and go to somewhere with affordable housing!!! ;-)

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[casseopeia]

I'd LOVE to move to Canada. I looked at moving to BC at one time, but architects are not high on the immigration list.

Do you need belly dancers?

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[Ashereng]

Always need more belly dancers.

BC is NOT Canada. I still don't know why people want to go to BC. Oh well.

There is MAJOR construction goin on in Calgary downtown. Major high rises/office towers are going up everywhere.

How about Alberta? No provincial sales tax.

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[sms]

A postitive attitude. So many engineers have such a negative attitude, that just having a positive attitude makes a person stand out from the crowd.

-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!

 

[PSE]

Management perspective: Ideal employee = Robot
Employee perspective: Ideal management = non-existent

 

[HVACctrl]

Ideal coworkers:
-Open minded
-Not critical of others
-Not overly worried about job security
-They realize that by helping coworkers to rise up, we all rise up
-Not just out for their own, personal agendas
-Unselfish
-Pleasant
-Confident
-Not overly confident in an arrogant type way
-Intelligent
-Versatile
-Can-do, tackle anything attitude ("how can I do it?" rather than "I don't think I can do it")

Could go on, but you get the picture.

Ed