I agree with the author. I will give you examples of people doing jobs for which they are way too overqualified: 1. Computer Science graduates doing data entry. 2. MBAs doing data entry of sales figures in Excel spreadsheet. Everybody has to do this kind of work occasionally. But if that becomes a full time job for an MBA graduate, it's a problem. 3. Computer science graduates working as a personal secretary of the project manager. 4.Engineers doing the job of a shop floor worker. 5.MBA graduates as an e-mail forwarding service. 6.Engineers who have to deal with abusive workers on the shop floor to request them to do their job. Sometimes these new hires get beaten up on the shop floor by workers. Their crime usually is that they ask a wrong person(union leaders or local goonda) to do what they are getting paid for.
Anyone who thinks that the person who is doing this kind of job should have asked for the nature of the job in his/her interview, doesn't know reality. Some of us are lucky to get a job we like. Many are stuck in a miserable situation because of financial or other problems. Many hit the bottle. Some take their frustration out on their family. Too much competition ,mass production and consume more and produce more attitude of companies is responsible for this. We need companies that give equal importance to their bottomline as well as the well being of their employees. Afterall, technology and all the scientific advances are for man, man is not for technolo
