Thread: Are Namibians "Job hoppers"?

Well well well, thanx cute-One for bringing this to the forums. I think in the Namibian case scenario, the employer is still making the rules and the employees have not really been job-hopping that much. If they do it is usually for periods of 1 year and 2 years that they stick with one given job, because ultimately to really learn something and gain experience does take time. I trust however that if Employers are not so flexible in terms of aligning salaries to the ever increasing cost of living, employees might wake up to the reality that they may be solely responsible to gain that much needed extras on the salary and one way of doing it is to jobhop, get a better offer, then move on like that. The other way of course employees can boost their income is to have a part time business concern in the form of owning a small or medium enterprise while being employeed, of course keeping in mind not to compromise ones productivity for the company that employs one. Some HR policies however are restrictive in terms of what you may and may not do in your private time, hence may force people to resign and join an employer who is more flexible on this.

All in all, we no longer live in a world that just because I am not a manager at xyz, I may not strive to improve my living standards. if my company does not subsidise e.g. housing and vehicle, I have to look for alternative ways to make enough income to be able to acquire these modern day essentials. Coz let's face it, if I keep coming by foot or per taxi to work, I am less like going to be earmarked for promotion, even if i excell at my job, and piet and jan rap, who happen to have been job hopping and negotiating their way up the salary scale, can afford to join the company i worked for for the past 10 years, and walla, he gets promoted, just after having joined for mere 6 months, coz he drives a BMW therefor, my management may deduce, he is a responsible, better potential manager right? RIGHT!!!!

Employeers, let's get with the program, Namibia is due to change a lot, pre apartheid we were toy toying coz the Apartheid regime allowed such unequal wealth distribution, but hey in an independent Namibia, we have jobless masses, ever increasing taxes, same prices for all in the retail market, and xtremeley unequal salary structures, e.g. Janitor 1 earns 800 per month, Manager 2 earns 80 000 per month, epxert 3 earns 40 000 per month, Clerk 4 earns 3 000 per month, Comrade x earns 100 000 per month....wait a minute, what possible negative effects may this have on the loyalty factor of the ones on the lower end of this mighty ladder?............what else can I say ;-)

Well, as we heard in the Money Money discussion of Oneword, interest rates will be upped, so Nam employers must expect the phenomenon of job hopping to take a steep curve upward...will c what happens

Nam IS NOT upping the rate; only SA!

Agreed, Oneword, but you know, over number of yrs, this was the trend: Something funky happens that benefits RSA Jan Rap en sy maat, Namibia takes pain stakingly slow to adopt which ever niceties they come up with, but eventually catches up, the opposite happens, something to the detriment of Jan rap en sy maat....dont wait around too long, it WILL land sooner than later in the Nam, jux saying, don think rate will remain constant for too long

As One time will be able to tell you: Eventually everything goes up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it is politically motivated Pietro, the fact that our rates are, for now, remaining constant, you know this is the sole time that voters are serious business of consideration for the politicians, so who knows what be cooking behind closed doors....;-)

juikk,

Do you mean they are softening us all up for next year's election already?

Yes Oneword, if ever you needed to be suspicious about politicians intend, right before elections is the time, politicians who are more strategic in their approach and do not necessarily give away their game so easily, are ones who are good at long term planning. With Namibia as a case, I doubt there are any much strategists at work, because they overdo the mass marginalisation and preferred group promotion right in our faces, only to expect the whole of south to see a point in voting for them, so when election times come closer, they look at the quick fixes like keeping rates constant to seem sincere for until they get the next vote which will quarentee their power position, only God knows what is in store for the next phase in our independent Namibia as we approach 'adulthood'....

the thing is the easterners can simply ask themselves who lately benefit from the resttlement innitiative

The southerners can simply ask themselves how many of the southern students got bursaries from Namdeb and how many of the southerners are indeed employeed there

well Khorixas can ask, what was the latest development in their Katown

The coast can query who get's quottas within the fisihing industry

The central can simply ask if they were made part and parcel of the Hire the darky schemes and whether their small and medium enterprise ideas had any success in terms of funding and gettin it off the ground

The Kavango regions were a lava arena, so they can simply ask if the police indeed protected all without prejudice...and the Caprivi I am sure had it's own question, very controversial issues that I will not dwelve into too deeply,

Lot's of question with simple easy answers, it sure does not require much maths....

juikk,


You are sure sore about a perceived inequality .........