Working with a Group of Student Workers and it's Great!

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Our department hired some summer students to help out and I have to say what a refreshing change they are to work with. They might not have experience but they more than make up for it with their lack of drama, no nonsense attitude and willingness to listen and follow directions. Remind me again why everybody wants experience? They ask questions, accept guidance and best of all are polite and mature. Sure they mess up but they are willing to correct their behavior without whining to a manager. My "experienced" coworkers generally whine, complain, are lazy and have more drama than a Jerry Springer episode.

Hopefully if I get the opportunity to hire someone myself I will definitely look to someone young and "inexperienced". Hard to believe everyone else passed them over just because they don't have any bad habits from previous jobs while everyone goes after the "experienced" ones. Employers never seem to realize that having experience is not a good thing if you are terrible at your job! Just wish everyone else would realize what they are missing out on, especially given the struggles many 'inexperienced' aspies are having.

~wild applause~

I've talked in some other threads about how I got into a job with no experience, but, as you say, they were tired of spoiled adults stuck in their ways. I was hired on my 20th birthday and they taught me everything I needed to know, ended up staying there almost 14 years and was writing the standards by the end to do some modernizing (but, not just for change sake, only if I could prove it would streamline something).