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Ram_Ruler
That's a good point. I'm a fan of the new idea of work life balance. So I guess I can't complaint.
Interesting. I run an office of criminal investigators. Below me, I have a handful of Sergeants. And below them...the Detectives.
Of course, the Sergeants get paid more than the Detectives, but the salary increase doesn't come close to balancing out the extra demands that are placed on the supervisors. Although this has been a long-existing problem for our Department (and, perhaps, many other governmental agencies), it's never really been a problem to find someone willing to promote because, well...things (housing, cars, tuition, entertainment) don't tend to get any cheaper over time and that extra 5% in pay helps to address that.
But that no longer seems to be the case (at least for my office). I have some hard-working Detectives who are dedicated to their jobs and would make excellent supervisors. But they're all in their mid-30's and have routinely taken a pass on taking the promotional exam (regardless of the encouragement I give them). Their rationale runs the gamut, but at the end of the day, the headaches (i.e. quality of life/work) that I and others endured with supervision for that extra 5% in pay 8 - 10 years ago, isn't worth it to the younger folks today.
It's a different value set. Not a negative value set...just different.
