John Remore, 60, right, has been operating a drop hammer for Ace Clearwater Enterprises for four decades and is considered "invaluable" by the company's president.
Posted on 09/03/2007 11:07:38 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Every time John Remore steps up to his workstation to form a piece of sheet metal, he brings an intangible asset to the job: 42 years of experience, dating to lessons from his father.
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John Remore, 60, right, has been operating a drop hammer for Ace Clearwater Enterprises for four decades and is considered "invaluable" by the company's president.
The best workers I have in my business are over 70.The younger kids are undependable and don’t want to learn the skills I need.
my ex-employer got rid of me after 18 years of service. They out sourced my job{ I was warehouseman, chief driver, and installer} to save money.
Companies today demand loyality but are unwilling to give it to the people that made them big.
The eduKKKrats teach children that such work is menial and worthless. Everybody must be in law or marketing. I remember when I was a kid and did poorly on a test or didn’t get my homework done the teachers would say, “You have to do better, unless you want to work in a factory like your parents”. So now we have a generation who spent years and years and thousands and thousands of dollars on college, but can’t do any work that adds value to anything.
If you don't mind my asking, what skills do you need?
I have been considering encouraging my 12-year-old son to take up an interest in modelmaking, tool-and-die work, and machining. I figure that if he can get some skills and a modicum of experience in those areas, not to mention the habits of responsibility and a strong work ethic, by the time he's 30 he'll be worth his weight in gold to somebody...
And I don't say that idly, either. He's smart enough to pursue whatever he chooses, including the toughest of universities.
Commonly they try to ship workers off to the rest home as soon as possible. It’s pure budget, nothing to do with work skills.
ELAINE: Speaking of Jerry, his father is driving me so crazy down at Peterman’s.
GEORGE: You know what I do at the Yankees, when one of these old guys is breathing down my neck?
ELAINE: What?
GEORGE: You schedule a late meeting.
ELAINE: Huh? What does that do?
GEORGE: These old guys, they’re up at 4 a.m., by two thirty they’re wiped.
Let your child learn welding, pipefitting, and other utility skills and he can have his own business and be a multi-millionaire by age 30.
“Companies today demand loyality but are unwilling to give it to the people that made them big.”
That really sums up the problem of business in America. So many people complain about illegal aliens, but then support outsourcing as free enterprise. Outsourcing foreign labor and hiring illegal aliens are opposite sides of the same coin.
The same could be said of machine work, though I see your point. I'll have to see that he gets some experience as a businessman, too. Now's the perfect age for it.
Hilarious but I doubt the article’s accuracy. I know that in the IT industry I often interview with GoogleWannabes now. God, it’s annoying. Their conceit is beyond words, they place great emphasis on solving a Rubik’s cube in 30 seconds but few of them can deliver eight hours of work per day.
As a result, some employers are worried that they will lose too many people -- and are pioneering policies to make the workplace more friendly to older employees.
No point hiring anyone younger....
Many of them are the best. But my experience is that they are the least willing to embrace new technology. This is true even if they have a computer at home. It’s almost like they see no reason to learn.
You can get an MBA at nightschool. That and a handful of welding and gas utility certifications should be the E ticket.
bump
Fine soldering, machine operation, machining, etc. Just basic machine shop and electronics assembly and touch up. The new hires don’t last long, and it has been that way since we’ve owned the business (15 years). They don’t want to learn and they aren’t dependable. We just soldier on with fewer and fewer people.
Of course they don't, there is no road to promotion or advancement with the top layer full.
Then when the oldsters die, your business dies. Good plan. It's a self limiting problem--the boomers won't live forever, or hopefully not much longer.
Start a small home business, and make your kids help.
It is phenomonal!
My son rented a ditch witch the day before he ran off to college, made $420 in one day.
Had customers lined up all over town.
I have to disagree with you there. I teach computer courses at 2 local colleges in both the Continuing Ed and Corporate divisions and older people make up the bulk of my classes. They know that to be valuable in the workplace they need to hone their computer skills.
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