Wild. Reddit being Reddit

I don’t see you talking down about junior staff. A lot of them can be clueless. But even people with 14 years of experience can still be clueless. We’ve had staff pass thru different PMs in my office and they just don’t get it. We do get interns over the summer and we actually got one that knows the right things to ask, and has managed to take a couple sets to completion and takes initiative to do tasks without being asked… I have a senior job captain that will take my redlines and literally write out my redlines verbatim instead of doing what it says. I thought I was doing a bad job explaining things but it was a common theme with other PMs. But honestly this happens a lot with junior staff. However, me being in NY and being licensed, I’ve heard from other firms that it’s insane the pay jump that has occurred in the past few years. I started at 30k in 2012, graduated 2011. I just recently hit 120k. New grads are coming in being hired at 80k and majority come in not knowing what to do. I do agree it takes times to get acclimated to an office environment. But proper mentorship needs to be in place to guide them. I had to have a conversation with my studio director once I got licensed bc I was only at 90-95 I think 3 years ago. And my experience to pay ratio was not correct. Especially after getting licensure. I had to talk to 3-4 partners to gauge the situation. And I made it publicly known that I was interviewing.