I never really got the glib claim you can just hire people and get them up to speed in a month. In my experience it takes almost a year to get truly familiar with how everything is done in a platform. It's not that one can't be productive quickly, it's that one will do many stupid and time consuming things.
It doesn't seem quite so ridiculous when you realize that the endemic attitude is that the company should be able to hire someone that can "hit the ground running" and be productive from the hire date.
From that perspective, allowing for a whole month of training seems almost extravagant. That is why people say it. It is to counteract the sheer idiocy of expecting instant productivity.
