Mr. Funk cites figures that more than half of the applicants for these kinds of jobs in the temporary job market can’t pass a drug test. “They are unemployable in that case,” he says regretfully.
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If the compensation wasn’t half, in terms of purchasing power, compared to what it was 25 years ago, you’d be getting better applicants. Stephen Moore, the author, used to be a good guy. Now he’s just a shill.
"Houston, I think we see the problem...!"
It also doesn't help the government will take generous take care of anybody who doesn't want to work.
Lots of failures involved here but the one that never gets mentioned is this is a failure of management to do its job.
Job 1 of the professional management class is to assemble and maintain a work force. Sounds like they are incapable of doing their jobs.
All I hear from them is whining, moaning, and excuses. And quietly collecting huge bonusus
Short term solution: pay more.
Long term solution: eugenics.
Respectfully disagree.
America has the people we need. Maybe some jobs need to pay more, but we’ve got more than the people we need.
We are supporting a huge amount of people on welfare and other support programs, rather then simply letting the workforce actually function.
Hire Americans.
America needs more jobs. More.
Germany has a good system of apprenticing as a means of developing skilled workers. It’s highly structured and it requires commitment from both apprentice and the prospective employer. The result is a well-trained and knowledgable workforce that earns a good wage and, perhaps more importantly, is quite respected.
Note the drug test information. They aren’t kidding. What they didn’t tell you is that the dug test not includes a pee test, it also includes a hair test. They take a snip of of hair.
Sorry to see that Mr. Moore’s solution is more government.
All he’s helping to do is empower the cradle-to-grave statist socialists who have mostly gotten us here in the first place.
There is only a legitimate shortage in the energy sector because of the explosive growth. The rest is BS. There is not an education problem. If you look at wanted adds for manufacturing you’re seeing unreasonable expectations for minimal pay. Either companies need to keep the low pay and train, or raise their pay to poach experienced workers.
I personally do not know a single person who wants to work that believes or thinks the statement above.
Legalizing tens of millions of criminal, illegal aliens is all about driving down wages in this country and making us more of a third-world nation with two classes of people: the politically connected rich and their crony political patrons, and the rest of us.
Funny, It was only two or three years ago that I laughed at people who said the above. Unfortunately, that statement seems to becoming more and more true with each passing day. I know too many people who want to work but are told their "too old", "too over qualified", "too under qualified" and other excuses.
Those who get money from the government should have to be drug tested to get it.
My take on why American workplaces are hiring non-Americans:
Too many Americans are on drugs.
Too many Americans are pierced and/or covered in tattoos.
Too many Americans can’t speak and write standard English. They emulate ghetto street talk in their daily speech and mannerisms.
Americans are molded like children by believing the lying propaganda of the liberal new media.
Americans are molded like children by watching the poison that is on the television screen.
The U.S. is a degraded culture in serious and rapid decline.
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
The reasons for the shortage:
Such jobs aren’t paying enough for blue collar workers to live today the way workers doing those jobs lived fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago, a carpenter working in NYC could afford his own home in a decent neighborhood and could support a non-working wife and children.
Pay blue collar workers enough to be able to live like that today, and you will find all the skilled help you need.
As a part time professor of an intro to programming class, I was struck by a consistent and full 1/4 of my students would simply not do the work. They would sign up for class, show up to class, and ... just not do the work. The work was in no way difficult. I don’t mean what they did was inadequate (so long as they submitted _something_ I’d go to great lengths to correct and let them resubmit), they wouldn’t even try. These are kids capable enough to actually get into college - yet proved practically dysfunctional.
Manufacturing and Trucking - having worked for both a manufacturer and a trucking company I’m going to go with “failing drug tests”...
I wish few of us could find a way to get hired over at Card Member Services...You know, the ones that call you a lot to ask you if you want to reduce your credit card debt, and improve your interest rates on existing cards???
Wonderful people, I just wanna “hug” all of them, from the janitor, customer service people, to the CEO...
Then...
The biggest impediments to hiring good workers are managers that write extensively detailed ‘requirements’ and ‘qualifications’ lists and the HR bimbos that scrape everyone off the list that doesn’t meet each and every one of those nonsense requirements.