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Alcoa Howmet Division of Alcoa Power and Propulsion is on the western shoreline of the state of Michigan (east shore of Lake Michigan) north of Holland.

Click-Bond is in Carson City, Nevada at the airport.

1 posted on 11/11/2012 6:17:03 PM PST by First_Salute
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To: First_Salute

Blacks, Hispanics, sex deviates, and minorities only need apply.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:33 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: cripplecreek

bttt


3 posted on 11/11/2012 6:22:28 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: First_Salute

Are they trying to tell us that the tens of millions of illegal invaders aren’t qualified? Then why the hell are we allowing them to enter and remain?


5 posted on 11/11/2012 6:33:28 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: First_Salute
how many can't pass the drug screen???
8 posted on 11/11/2012 6:39:06 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: First_Salute

Half of the staff at CBS could get hired as janitors.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 6:53:06 PM PST by Mark (For the first time in my life, I'm no longer proud of my country.)
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To: First_Salute
This week I'm breaking in an Indian and a Russian that will probably replace my contract IT job.

I've have plenty of options with over 20 years experience in my specialty but I shudder for younger Americans who are not as qualified.

11 posted on 11/11/2012 6:53:46 PM PST by AU72
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To: First_Salute
Say what you will about 60 Minutes but I found the report to be informative within the segment's time allowance. I work in this area as a manufacturing consultant and have connections with a training organization similar to the one in the report. Just as in Nevada, it is also helping adult students get the needed skills for operating CNC machines.

Unfortunately, the reporter missed an opportunity to inquire with the ALCOA president, who is from Germany, about the differences between the education systems in the two countries in areas such as technical skill preparation and internships with industry.

12 posted on 11/11/2012 6:54:00 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: First_Salute

If employers can’t get skilled people for their jobs, they’re not paying enough. That’s how it works. Offer jobs for say, welders, at $15 an hour and you’ll be whining about there not being qualified applicants. Offer jobs for $30 an hour and they’ll be lined up around the block. Welders earning $25 an hour will quit and come work for you.


14 posted on 11/11/2012 7:05:39 PM PST by bigbob
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To: First_Salute

$12 bucks an hour! That ought to bring in the top talent.


16 posted on 11/11/2012 7:22:13 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: First_Salute
"Three million open jobs in U.S., but who's qualified?"

Sexually confused sociopaths, manhaters, environmentalists and the like.


18 posted on 11/11/2012 7:24:33 PM PST by familyop
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To: First_Salute
Three million jobs, huh? What a load!

This is the companies' cry for the govt. to "do something". Or, in other words, pay the companies money to train people or open the borders to increase competition so they can get people for lower wages.

22 posted on 11/11/2012 7:42:11 PM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: First_Salute
Companies whine about a lack of skilled workers, but what they are actually whining about is a lack of skilled workers willing to work for low wages, and I mean not much more than Wendy's wages.

Seriously, shouldn't years of technical expertise be worth something? I'm seeing jobs for EXPERIENCED chemists with years of experience in a variety of techniques for $16/hour. And they expect LOYALTY for that kind of money!

I'll work hard on any job, but if they are going to pay me dirt money, I'm going to move on when something better appear--and work hard there.
27 posted on 11/11/2012 9:01:00 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: ProudVet77

When I was younger, I operated on an assumption that employers were honest. You will remember that young people tried hard to write well, a worthy resume, because we were told that it mattered. We were told that, by somebody who fussed over the header, and then “this line” and then “that line” ... and we wondered and worried that it seemed, to get the attention of an employer, *There was a ‘correct form of resume’ to do that?!*

We next learned, that what job applicants and resumes do, as we submitted them in response to Help Wanted ads in the newspapers, is to help employers figure out who and what employers need/want, and *then* the want ad changes as the search is refined.

I remember when HR dept.’s were formed to replace “The Personnel Dept.” HR was created to offer a management post to women, and HR became more incapable of understanding “what kind of work we do around here.” HR did *not* know what it was looking for, and it became imperative for an applicant to do an end-around that roadblock and find the management of the area in which you were going to be working, you hoped.

A bit later, HR became indispensible, as government regulations forced companies to comply; a lot of fuss about minutiae un-related to skill that is required to produce -— there was a boost in *non-productive* labor.

It was at that point, I ran into trouble. I would succeed at bypassing HR and having good relations with management *who knew how to produce* and *who wanted me to work for them* ... but by then, fussy HR managers would assert that “the chain of command had been thwarted!” as they complained that their fiefdoms had been reduced to “just a personnel dept., once again.”

It did not matter that I had proven that I could do the work, as some manager let me run thru some paces and assemble one of the company’s hydraulic pumps that I’d never seen before, and also did that in record time. He was all smiles, “Golly, *that* was easy.” Yet, the ladies running HR were obsessed with “all prospects must come thru me!”

One exec. was kind enough to detail how my application would fail, as his company’s HR “lady” would simply tear up anything in response to how you sounded over the phone (I had asked to speak with so-and-so in manufacturing, and that was considered “bad form.” Funny, I just ran into that same problem lately, where a lady, in the absence of her boss, assumed that she has a lot of power and resented my reminding her that she is not the boss. Given that I outranked her, she practically “blew up on the pad.”)

Meanwhile at the top of the food chain, I remember an old fellow who had once been the boss of a major manufacturer and then retired; he’d been my boss, too, back in the early 1970’s.

When I saw him in the early 1980’s, he was very specific about “the new breed” that “are pirates” and have “no connection with production - they’re just ‘here’ to take the money and run.” IOW, he lamented the loss of capitalists.

Now, we have charletans and pretenders, schemers, banksters and the lot of “the suits.” The cost of management, the cost of doing business *as it is affected by the burdens imposed by government,* are being *ignored* by them whose pay exceeds hundreds of thousands of dollars / year and cannot be justified.

They have “Compensation Committee meetings.” It is a disgusting self-congratulatory, back-slapping, mutual admiration society, where no one ever mentions their direct connection to production - actual output - because none can prove their importance on the shop floor, or on the docks, or in the field. They are basically princes holding onto thrones.

They have a lot of brain power in many instances, but *they* *do* *not* *care* about people *who have no power to affect their scheme of participation in the income ladder.*

They would immediately accept a govt-run-barracks of “sustainable working quarters” jammed full of H1B visas, that relieved them of doing anything in management related to *labor management.*

The unions are not clueless, but they are too greedy to help their members realize, that the progressives, now, still need to get out the vote in the name of the union, but otherwise, unions will be folded into government, for the purpose of enforcing U.S. Government Workers Barracks Regulations.

Free TV, free Wi-Fi, free cell phones; all the usual workers paradise amenities, along with the unrest caused by being jammed into government housing.

All, the outcome of “the brain trust of suits” who have no guts to resist the cost of government.


32 posted on 11/12/2012 8:07:28 AM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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