Posted on 08/25/2011 6:43:41 AM PDT by thackney
America has created for itself a permanent, unemployable, indolent class who are happy to forever be on public assistance.
I have a friend who is a manager for an industrial electrical shop. They will take anyone for their training program - if they show up on time, don’t do drugs, will work 10 hours per day for what may be considered low pay during the journeyman period, show some initiative, and have managed to get through high school.
They can never find enough people.
The ACLU makes it’s grand entrance declaring the qualifications as too stringent for “lower” income types...in 3, 2, 1...
When metals started going up they were reopening the mines and took months to hire all the people they needed. This company along with a positive drug test they also wouldn’t take anyone who had a wage garnishment for any reason, including child support.
Back when things were booming my son convinced his boss to only let him have work-release prisoners for laborers. He said that at least they were there everyday and were happy to be there rather than sitting in jail.
too many applicants fail drug tests and background checks?
Round here, the Marcellus Shale seismic survey crews claim to try to hire locals but can find few who pass those two tests and then show up every day.
My family are miners and the mines here are looking for workers. Pay and bennies are good and they will train in many of the positions. Problem? Applicants can’t pass the drug test. If they do many get canned after failing random testing after they hire on.
This certainly puts a chink in the argument that drugs are victimless crimes.....when so much of the population makes themselves virtually umemployable, where else will companies look for employees? Illegals.
My company looks for $100,000+ engineers. Can’t find them. Go figure.
Depending on the amount of experience and area of expertise, that dollar amount might be 50% low.
They’re even mining copper in the upper peninsula of Michigan again.
HUMM...Maybe it’s time for me to get my Class “A” CDL...
In Denver that’s still good money.
Hardrock mining is doing well right now. But it’s always been “Chicken one day, feathers the next” in this business.
Agree. Having trouble finding qualified applicants? Quit discriminating against the slightly older drivers. Have a couple of friends in this category and things look good going in initially until they reveal their age. Go figure. Not even a chance at a company physical they both maintain.
At least they can pass the backgtound checks. /s
Whiskey Tango
Hey gringo, if that ID doesn't pass the background check I got a couple dozen more I can use.
Are you really claiming that we are victims of their drug habits because jobs are going unfilled? You do realize what a stretch that is, don't you?
If it’s one of the reasons there is pressure to bring in illegals, then yes. If there aren’t enough qualified Americans to do the jobs, and if this article is true, and most are being rejected for drugs, then I can definitely see the correlation.
If I drink a fifth of scotch and smoke 2 packs a day, I pass the drug test, BUT . . . if I smoke a joint at home to help relieve the pain in my knees from old athletic injuries I don’t pass?
If I was involved in “youthful indiscretions” I get denied, BUT . . . if I have been robbing people selling shady mortgage deals, overpriced underperforming health “Insurance” and shoddy “Home Improvements” I get hired?
Friends, if you need someone to drive a truck, how they drive a truck should be the test.
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