Re:A**hole bosses are not confined to IT (Score 1)

(3) Many young people in the workforce don't know this one, but it's taught in the b-schools: The cost of hiring a skilled person usually costs out around the value of a third of the employee's annual salary. In other words, firing someone for no good reason is running up a major cost. (If he fires say five or six people, he's cost the company more than his annual salary. And what will *his* boss have to say about that? This is exactly right, but you underestimate the cost of replacing someone. Not all areas even HAVE ready access to engineers. So the stipulation would be -provided- that they could find someone equally qualified, they'd still have to relocate, and get that person up to speed. Replacement costs on engineers run in the area of 150K. That supervisor had better have one blinking good reason for unloading a funtioning engineer.