Posted on 05/14/2021 5:49:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 05/15/2021 6:57:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Finding truckers who can pass drug tests ALL the time is another problem.
Make a drug legal and kiss trucking goodbye.
> I finished up and was walking by just as one remarked how different it was when they were in school. I leaned in and said “perhaps you had better teachers” <
Well, I taught for a number of years at a private school. If a student misbehaved there, he got one warning. Then after a second incident he was gone, forever. So I had no worries about classroom disruptions. And the parents were very involved in their children’s education. The only parental complaint I ever got there was that I wasn’t giving enough homework! Amazing!
Then, as I noted earlier, I taught for decades in an urban public high school. Removing a disruptive kid from class was darn near impossible. And the district did next to nothing when a kid skipped school.
No surprise that test scores in that public high school were much lower than the scores from that private school. But I don’t think it’s because I suddenly became a bad teacher.
Fewer hours & not working forever applies to many facets of the economy.
Saw it in accounting jobs I had over the years.
I deal with trucking industry representatives regularly in the course of my work, and I tell them there's no shortage of trucker drivers in America today. What we have is a trucking industry that can't figure out how to compensate their drivers adequately. This is especially true for long-haul drivers who spend days away from home at a time. For many of them, truck driving is effectively less than a minimum-wage job.
An astute Freeper who claimed to have a background in U.S. intelligence posted an interesting comment on the subject at the time. He said that in his prior life as an intelligence analyst, one of the things they found is that the loss of public confidence in a foreign country's mail delivery system was almost always a precursor to the collapse of that country's government.
5th profession should be “Nurses”
We need to immediately bring in un and under trained doctors and nurses from around the world. My daughter is a nurse and left her last job for another due to low pay, forced to work with little breaks and night shift in a crappy area of indianapolis.
Places that complain about lack of people often have terrible work environment with pay lacking. You can’t have both and keep workers.
Ditto for Police departments when they decided to 'weed out the neanderthals' in the 70s and bring in more female cops. Like Dirty Harry said, "Hell of a price to pay for being stylish!"
Translation: We need more illegals!
A few years ago, a medical doctor told me that “everybody thinks that doctors drive Cadillacs. Today, they drive Tauruses.”
Insightful piece by Myra Kahn Adams ... thanks for posting.
I agree. My business ships a lot of product by truck. We usually have ~ $250,000 worth of PROFIT on each truck. The truck drivers taking this material to port get ~ $300. We would be happy to share another $300 with them, if we could depend on having a driver.
Right now, it's hit or miss. We're seeing significant delays in product movement due to lack of drivers, lack of containers, and lack of available shipping slots.
“Doctors”
So does this mean we’re going to stop paying medical schools to not train doctors?
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