Posted on 02/09/2023 5:29:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
Have affirmative action hiring practices caused overall competence to plummet? The record appears to show exactly that.
For no good reasons whatsoever, competence was allowed to die on the vine in order to give the less competent a leg up. Not equality but superiority rules the hiring, firing, and education of Americans. Worse, many of those who were affirmatively hired do not do as good a job as those whose excellence was obvious. You can see it in customer service, which for many businesses is abysmally incompetent. There is a resentful casualness in those who are hired to serve others that would not have been acceptable even two decades ago. The competence level one deals with on a daily basis is on life support.
While there are pockets of the competent in places like Florida and some Southern states, much of America is being run by children with no sense of responsibility or pride in accomplishment. That is because there is little real accomplishment in their lives; children get passed through the public education system having to learn little of value. Instead, they are taught perverse sexual practices and aberrant lifestyles. They are taught how to be activists but are not taught to be competent breadwinners.
It is harder and harder to find good computer techs to service the average home computer user. Instead, salespeople are sent out to do the most basic installations, utterly lacking the sophistication to handle a complex computer problem that may come up. Training in many fields is rudimentary. Surgeons and physicians are being put through university because of their skin color, not necessarily their competence. Ditto pilots. Do you want to fly or get operated on by these hires? I'll pass.
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That will only go so far for so long.
And while you’re fighting with a gummed up carb and stale gas, the electric chainsaw (powered off an inverter connected to a car battery if needed) is working just fine.
...and his "solution" to the problem was to NOT hire or promote according to competency.
For the record:
I have a 56 volt battery powered chainsaw. It is a joy to my life.
Having screwed with two stage gas engine chainsaws for decades, the electric battery powered saw is a true joy to own and to use. It is 14”, not huge but adequate for firewood and trees in my yard.
If manliness is measured by possession of a two cycle tool, it is archaic. Electric motor replacements for two cycle are now the rule
We just did a remodel...builder WAS going to place HVAC like yours (hard to get to)...luckily the HVAC contractor convinced him otherwise. Seemed so stupid to me...HVAC in attic???
Yep and the “diversity” industry still pushes the lie that a pure meritocracy would make our universities and R&D labs look demographically like 19th century Sweden. 😂 Totally agree with Reagan’s sentiment.
Ayn Rand understood homo sapiens brilliantly.
The university and mass media and big corporate “experts” hate her—she called them out on all of their lies.
Short version:
“Scientists” = Witch Doctors
“Public Servants” = Thugs
“Experts” = Parasites
“Progressives” = Evil Thieves
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Ayn Rand explained that the two most powerful forces of evil in the world were “force” and “fraud”.
We are swimming in that sea of force and fraud today.
I think it’s got a lot more to do with turnovers than anything else. Corporations stopped being loyal to employees, and employees followed suit. There’s really no reason to invest time in training someone that won’t be there in a year. Add to that a constant drive to reduce costs, and you’re just not putting good people in good positions.
The fifth largest state in production of cars and trucks, and still growing.
Plus a nice Airbus plant in Mobile.
Thomas Sowell said that if everyone has to cross the finish line together, you will spend endless effort trying to figure out where each runner starts.
It is the high cost of living and unions that have in recent decades driven the move of industry to the American South.
But also I suppose that the South has a surfeit of low-skill workers to tap. Let’s not get started on SAT scores, educational levels, innovation rates, etc.
As to welfare levels, NC is the only Southern state with a good record, and 3 of the top 6 states for welfare recipients are in the South: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-recipients-by-state
As they do already in tech.
And changing tech. My car doesn’t even have a spare. It’s got a cigarette lighter compressor and a bottle of basically “fix-a-flat”. The expectation is to use that to get the tire short term usable.
And in 10 years I’ve never had a flat. Think I’ve only had 1 or 2 my whole life. Honestly I should check the bottle, see if it has an expiration.
Graduates of applied engineering colleges and those with degrees in supply chain management etc. and who have a solid work ethic are getting two and three job offers at great starting salaries.
The maritime college in Maine, Maine Maritime Academy had its annual career fair in October of 2022. About 120 employers showed up. Tne enrollment at the college is about 1000.
Seniors who did not graduate until May, 2023 were getting interviews and job offers on the day of the fair (or the next day).
HVAC equipment or ducts in the attic is a good way to waste money on energy bills.
“Don’t worry, ‘Scro. Lots of tards are out there living kick-ass lives.”
I knew you were going to “get it!”
I happen to live in Virginia, and all of the SSI recipients I know of in this state were born here from parents who were born here from grandparents who were born here...
SSI is basically welfare for people with disabilities that don’t have enough work credits to collect SSDI.
One woman I knew actually got her daughter on SSI too.
I am closing in on 30 years at my place of employment. The newer employees complain about everything, produce very little and have trouble doing their basic duties. Out of forty or so people on this worksite you have about ten that knows what is going on and what to do to make things run. I have watched highly competent people be marginalized or forced into retirement because they were making incompetent administration look like buffoons.
If the market recovers enough the remainder of the year I am retiring and out of here. My recently retired co-worker said to me when I told her my plans they will close our department down when you retire because they don’t have a clue how to run it. I said I know, but I’m tired of the childish behavior and management, I have better things to do at my age.
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