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American Millennials are among the world's least skilled
Fortune ^ | March 10, 2015 | Anne Fisher

Posted on 03/13/2015 5:43:39 AM PDT by iowamark

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1 posted on 03/13/2015 5:43:39 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8


2 posted on 03/13/2015 5:44:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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We’ve got to strip American universities of taxpayer dollars which they waste on ethnic and gender studies. People who pay for their own schooling or earn private scholarships are actually looking forward.


3 posted on 03/13/2015 5:48:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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They are great at using their smart phones and trying out new apps, just watch them.

In my neighborhood my neighbors from India don’t have cable TV< they make their kids study and get good grades.

They moved to my neighborhood for the schools.


4 posted on 03/13/2015 5:49:20 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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This is because all the jobs that would teach young people job skills and work habits have been taken by illegal aliens. And child labor laws prevent kids from working until they are old enough tho drink.


5 posted on 03/13/2015 5:52:35 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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We need less college and more trade schools.


6 posted on 03/13/2015 5:53:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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Really? with all this free education and college crap? Amazing, maybe it is because they have no guidance.


7 posted on 03/13/2015 5:54:36 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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We’ve got to return to the days of the fifties when teaching kids.


8 posted on 03/13/2015 5:54:48 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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I was going to take the test, but I can’t use foxfire at work. :( We just hired a bunch of young ones. I don’t know their skill level, but they all seem like very nice kids. So that’s something.


9 posted on 03/13/2015 5:56:16 AM PDT by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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We used to have auto shop classes and metal shop classes and wood shop classes in high school.

Now they teach sensitivity classes.

So we have a whole generation of sensitive numbskulls that don’t know torque wrench from a toilet handle.


10 posted on 03/13/2015 6:00:18 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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Reminds me of the FCC “Third Class Radiotelephone Operator’s License” test I passed in order to be a DJ at my college’s radio station. I figured that anyone who couldn’t pass it was probably too dumb to put their name at the top of the form.


11 posted on 03/13/2015 6:00:35 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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Yeah, but at least they FEEL good about themselves and will expect they can always be taken care of by “someone”.


12 posted on 03/13/2015 6:06:12 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Oh, just wait till they get a load of the generation following the Millennials. The kids I'm getting who were born after 1995, man, a lot of them are just shockingly incompetent. I mean, 13 year olds who cannot tell time on an analog clock. Cannot add single digit numbers.

Seriously, just yesterday we were reading a ghost story in my lower-level 7th grade class, and the novel was set "three years after X character died." We find X character's tombstone with the dates 1869 -- 1884 on it. I say, "So, when is this novel set?"

One kid yells out "1869.".

I say, "No, that's when she was born."

Another kid yells out "1884."

I say, "Okay, that's when she died, and the novel is set three years later...?"

"1890! 1950! 1860!"

Finally one kid concentrates really hard (you can see him get really still, and his eyes start moving back and forth). "1887?"

By this time I'm just ill, and I'm holding up my fingers, counting, "Yes! Look, everyone, see? 1885, 86, 87! That's three!"

And they stare at my fingers with their mouths hanging open and their eyes dull and annoyed, like "what's your point, miss?"

13 posted on 03/13/2015 6:06:53 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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Least educated and less intelligent Perfect little dimocrats


14 posted on 03/13/2015 6:09:16 AM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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My high school physics teacher owned a construction company and transferred a lot of things from building into his classes. He even took us to job sites and got us to do some of the work while learning. (In those days our parents thought it was great)

We learned a lot of physics basics that way.


15 posted on 03/13/2015 6:13:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: sickoflibs

Millennials......They’re tech dependent, not technically skilled.


16 posted on 03/13/2015 6:15:47 AM PDT by wordsofwisdom
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To: Pecos

My work has a general qualifying test that I call the stupid test. Had questions like

“Jeff wants to take lunch with his friend Joe. All of Jeff’s friends work in accounting. Jill works in accounting.”

Answer the following statements as true, false, or possible but not enough information given.

Joe and Jill are friends.
Joe works in accounting.
Jeff and Jill are friends.
Jeff works in accounting.
Jill is having lunch with Joe.

Or other questions like Tom has a variety of items he wants to transport to a friends house down the street. Given the following items, what is the best way to do so? He has a 2 gallon bucket, an 80lb anvil, a box of matches, a small wagon, a stack of papers 3” thick, and a hammer.

Literally half the group testing with me flunked it.


17 posted on 03/13/2015 6:15:50 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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The trillion$ of yo’money $pent by “progressives” for “liberal education” (indoctrination?) has paid off handsomely. The lost generation known as millennials know not who George Washington is... but have learned that cops are all racist, and America is “unfair”. Also, while mastery of the iPhone is a skill... it don’t make much of a living.


18 posted on 03/13/2015 6:17:02 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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How do we know if your area's schools are good. It is impossible to know without measure the “after-schooling” done by ambitious parents and their kids.

It could be that the high ranking of some government schools has nothing to do with the school. It merely takes credit for the hard work of after-schooling done by the families.

It has been my anecdotal observation that academically successful children who are institutionalized for the schooling do the same amount of homework at the kitchen table as my homeschoolers did all day. Their parents share similar value and home habits as mine.

Conclusion: Schools don't teach. Kids learn in the home. The institutional school merely provides a curriculum for the child to follow in the home.

19 posted on 03/13/2015 6:19:39 AM PDT by wintertime
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I guess that the logic problems I grew up loving, like “Who owns the zebra?”, are passe...


20 posted on 03/13/2015 6:21:00 AM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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