Resource Marshalling

20 People in 5 days. Thats the number of prospective new hires I spoke to this week - in person, telephonic.... Guess I was down on luck got to shortlist just a few of them. Found one thing common amongst all of them - lack of passion, They are here just to land their next job. There were Project Managers who were not aware of (and hence obviously did not practice) Requirements management, traceability; Design was limited to drawing a few rectangles and arrows in MS Word or Visio; Estimations and scheduling were based on prior experience (mystical I guess!) and not on Function Points; No reports to management, no phase ends, no schedule monitoring, no quality plans, no risk identification and hence no mitigation; no histograms, no pareto analysis, no formal defect prevention mechanisms other than probably yelling at the team!; and so NO LEARNINGS. Yet all of them draw fat salaries that would be the envy of neighbours and friends. WHY?