NY FedPosted on 04/19/2015 7:35:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not about finding workers; it's about finding the right workers.
According to the latest supplemental survey from the New York Fed's manufacturing and business leaders surveys, employers in the New York area are facing two main problems: finding workers who can show up on time and workers who can hold a conversation.
The survey showed that in April, 65% of manufacturing employers had difficulty finding punctual workers and 60% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
Among business leaders, a broader survey group, 42% had trouble finding punctual workers while about 48% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
These results also play into a theme we've been hammering on: As the labor market improves, employers won't have trouble finding workers, but will have trouble finding the right workers.
NY Fed
And this survey highlights another trend in the labor market: wage growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
We have had to let several new hires go because they could not communicate with patients well enough to get enough relevant information to properly treat them. They call it “emergency medicine” for a reason!
My daughter sets up job shadowing volunteer programs in the medical fields and has just this problem with teens. It’s not just the immigrants. The programs are limited to juniors and seniors with relatively good grades.
This is not a new phenomenon. My neighbor worked for AT&T back in the 1970s. He was tasked with the job of creating remedial classes for new AT&T hires. Classes taught included math, English, how to dress when coming to work, etc. Many of the students couldn’t hack it and had to be let go.
AT&T did this because they couldn’t find new hires that had these basic skills. And that was ~40 years ago!
The internet age is killing all of our social skills. Kids especially.
What a satisfying outcome for your Boss. That’s like when Reagan fired all those pilots who refused to cross a picket line. He called their bluff, and the strikers were furious staying that way for years.
It’s weird how the American taxpayers are being forced to pay for low I.Q. Xenos who can’t speak English to go to “law school”.
Maybe had never seen a machine before
Sure, it could be funny. But when the injured worker sues the little company for personal injury resulting from his jamming his hand into it, with a legal system that is irrational, next thing you know the company is bankrupt.
Construction jobs are not, necessarily, occupied by “stupid” people.
This is another one of those blame the American worker articles. (I.e. We need more H1-b’s and illegals). By the C of C types.
If they are not getting qualified candidates, then they need to raise the pay. (supply and demand).
Apparently, the social safety hammock is having its intended effect.
I was getting supervisor training at one major engineering and construction company (one of the top ten). One of the outrageous lines was that all communication content is 90 percent emotion. This includes discussions that are supposedly primarily about project related technical matters, no, it’s about feeeelings.
Then I ran into one person who thought being expected to show up for work on time was creating a hostile work environment.
It is no wonder all the jobs are being exported overseas. That is where you find the work ethic.
America has just become too spoiled and lazy.
The only silver lining for me is that the lack of competition allows me to climb the career ladder quite easily.
I've read about people who have even gone so far as to write on their Facebook timeline "I want a good job" and they STILL are unemployed. This is clearly the sign of a screwed up country, and it's Bush and his war-monger friends' fault.
LOL! Yup. I had one guy that worked for me after several other supervisors couldn’t control his attendance. I simply told him that if he wanted the job then he needed to be on time everyday. If he failed to do this, I told him that I would document every late arrival and that before long he wouldn’t have the job. I never had any issue with him being late again after that. He was a good worker and I told him I would really hate to lose his work knowledge and expertise but the ball was in his court.
When I took a job at Drexel University as the manager of the technical group responsible for the mainframe systems, I inherited a middle-aged black man who had lost a leg to diabetes. He only came into the office once a year, and that was to update his benefit choices at the personnel department.
I was charged with trying to get him engaged so he would show up at work and actually do something. He said he prefers being in the Caribbean all year playing with his steel drum band. I tried giving him made up work that he could do remotely... documenting disaster preparedness plans and things like that. No luck, not interested one bit.
Every year he would simply tell me "there's no way you can fire a handicapped black man in Philadelphia, so I'm not changing". He was right.... we eventually had to pay him off to leave.
What a great system huh.
I didn’t say that.
I said those jobs are going to illegals. Every day, fewer and fewer white and black guys are found at a construction site, but there’s a steady rise of Mexicans.
Now everyone of these broader points I made have exceptions, but to the point of the OP I was commenting to, it was a fair analysis.
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