[blueunicorn6]

Well, just how much training does your nephew or friend’s son really need?

[Clay Moore]

We have had to let several new hires go because they could not communicate with patients well enough to get enough relevant information to properly treat them. They call it “emergency medicine” for a reason!

[JimSEA]

My daughter sets up job shadowing volunteer programs in the medical fields and has just this problem with teens. It’s not just the immigrants. The programs are limited to juniors and seniors with relatively good grades.

[upchuck]

This is not a new phenomenon. My neighbor worked for AT&T back in the 1970s. He was tasked with the job of creating remedial classes for new AT&T hires. Classes taught included math, English, how to dress when coming to work, etc. Many of the students couldn’t hack it and had to be let go.

AT&T did this because they couldn’t find new hires that had these basic skills. And that was ~40 years ago!

[vpintheak]

The internet age is killing all of our social skills. Kids especially.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s weird how the American taxpayers are being forced to pay for low I.Q. Xenos who can’t speak English to go to “law school”.

[dfwgator]

[MortMan]

Apparently, the social safety hammock is having its intended effect.

[dfwgator]

[Cementjungle]

This is all Bush's fault. If Dems had been running the country, then any kid fresh out of school at a tender age of 38, armed with a degree in afro-homo-sexual art history should be able to land a $150K job without even sending out a single resume.

I've read about people who have even gone so far as to write on their Facebook timeline "I want a good job" and they STILL are unemployed. This is clearly the sign of a screwed up country, and it's Bush and his war-monger friends' fault.

[PapaBear3625]

The problem is not that companies can't find people with good interpersonal skills.

The problem for these companies is that people with good interpersonal skills and good work habits are able to find jobs that pay better than what these companies are willing to offer.

[ViLaLuz]

I’ve had employees tell me they weren’t coming to work there was no gas in their car, or because they just didn’t feel like it and wanted the day off.