Not a Pretty Picture

Having have been a large company, with 100 agents and now, a smaller company, with 15 agents. I know how tough it is to commit to training these people, and follow up with their progress. I love the Real Estate industry, but I don't like what it has become. Progress is great, I love the new technology and everything that goes with it. What  I don't like, is there are so many untrained agents or should I say unknowledgeable agents, who have been pushed out on the street to sell. I remember a time when the broker took bride in is or her office and a new person was'nt just turned loose to find their way. I find coop situations where some of these people seem not to know what their responsibilities are or at least they don't act like it. Have companies gotten so big and the people of responsibility move so far away from what running a office is about. The situations I see are with some pretty large companies. I know that this is a new day, but good old training will never die, nor will monitoring the progress of a new associate. I could say alot more and give examples, but thats not necessary. We have gotten so caught up in all the new things, that we are forgetting the basics.