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frankharv on April 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT graduate students vote to unionize

That sounds like a reasonable parallel.

In the field of Machining most of our new folks come from one particular Community College that offers a Machine Shop with a few CNC machines.

The sole instructor was a friend and would give me heads up on excellent machinists.

Stanly retires and new instructor brought in.

Fast forward a year and a competing companies CEO now sits on board of college.

He gets all the heads ups from the new instructor and we are left with the slackers to hire..

MaxBarraclough on April 9, 2022 [–]

Is there no grading system to refer to?

toast0 on April 9, 2022 | [–]

You can ask applicants for grades, but if you get heads up on good candidates, you ask them to work for you before they go looking. So if someone else is getting heads up, you're only getting candidates that didn't pass their filters.

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