Why is it so hard to fill these jobs?
Too many potheads.
When I was at a state unemployment office we’d routinely send people who didn’t have a lot of skills a few blocks away to a large, industrial bakery paying a bit over $10/hr to start with good overtime & benefits (this was in the 90’s when that was decent money) but 2/3rds of them would fail the drug screening.
No work ethic. Same thing, I suppose.
Something not mentioned in the article, but alluded to by stating the jobs lack glamore: most of these jobs require some degree of manual work IOW something besides sitting at a desk drawing a paycheck while “engaged” with a desk top or lap top electron channeling modification devise. Couple that with the notion of “well, without getting my hands dirty, I may get less money but at least I don’t have to get up every day” and you have what the welfare society breathes.
Pay someone to do it, even if it nothing, and you get more of it.
Bingo!
I'm working part time in a restaurant. If a drug test were required we'd lose half our work force immediately, rather then the normal 1 or 2 month turnover rate.
Real jobs with real pay and benefits mostly require passing a drug test.
The manufacturing industry is built on a sub culture of drugs and alcohol. It's amazing the number of guys who immediately smoke a one-hitter or start getting drunk before their cars are even out of the parking lot after work. Hell, they often start over lunch. Every day! If the manufacturing sector ever actually started to enforce drug policies, they'd lose 3/4ths of their employees. Many of whom actually do their jobs quite well. And this includes managers and foremen.
I agree 100%. Our department is always needing young high school kids for summer help. If we are lucky, we might get 1 out of 15 who pass the drug test. When we do get a kid who passes, he might work for 2 weeks before going back to leeching off of mom and dad.
Bingo!
Partially correct.
Too many potheads.
The reason they are potheads is because young men no longer have opportunity or even hope.
I don't blame them for giving up.
This country has sent its women to work, which is a disgrace, and which I am certain runs against our evolved human nature.
Men are no longer seen as leaders, men are no longer seen as heads of households.
Women, who started out holding an equal share of the cards by virtue of evolution, now have all their original natural rights supplemented by arrogating the natural rights of men.
Our nation has been sold out for the sake of profit. We have been in a race to the bottom for fifty or more years.
Ours is a social disaster, and people are behaving the way they did in all previous social disasters: by surrendering to immediate gratification--sex, intoxicants, mindless distractions, violent behavior--instead of working toward a better future for themselves, because they have every reason to believe that as long as present trends continue, their future will only be worse.
When I was a pup, you got scores of applications even for McDonald's type jobs.
“Why is it so hard to fill these jobs?
Too many potheads.”
Surely, the problem is that employers discriminate against potheads. Why, drugs are harmless—Rand Paul told me so. What could possibly go wrong if a pothead got a job as a long-haul trucker? Or working on an oil rig?