[davikkm]

There is no major labor shortage but there are a lot of able bodied Americans who can’t pull their damn pants up or pass a drug test.

[COBOL2Java]

There is no major labor shortage but there are a lot of able bodied Americans who can’t pull their damn pants up or pass a drug test.

That's part of it - the product of handing schools over to the NEA and its enforcer, the US Department of Education. The other part for holding wages down is the oversupply of illegals still, and companies willing to hire them at slave wages.

[Combat_Liberalism]

Likewise, they are getting a whole plethora of goodies from the welfare state and handouts from sundry “low income advocates.”

Why work when you can do better begging from an industry of professional chumps. Can you blame them. Demoralized blobs of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your souls.

[DaveA37]

I can remember back when having a college degree meant you were (almost) “guaranteed” a good job leading to financial success PROVIDING you were willing to work. It was driven into our heads in high school that “You MUSY HAVE a degree”. Consequently, many of us attained those degrees and the future looked bright as we pushed forward. Not so today as there are millions of useless degrees, literally handed out because of dumbed down curriculums and lowered standards to those who never “earned” that degree and have no desire to work. And we ask, "What the hell happened?"

[ridesthemiles]

AND:

Covered in tattoos & have various & numerous punctures in their visible skin.

All of which eliminate ANY perspective employee from my eyesight. PERIOD