Local manufacturing companies struggling to fill open jobs (Ohio)

The Youngstown Vindicator ^ | October 6, 2018 | Jordyn Grzelewski

[eyeamok]

two thirds of applicants at a minimum can’t pass a drug test


Which is why we need to Change the Drug Testing Policy of every company in America that does ANY kind of Drug Testing to Include Mandatory Drug Testing for ALL Executives, Board Members and Stockholders.


YOU FAIL You LOSE EVERYTHING!!! Watch how fast the drug testing policies change.

[353FMG]

I understand how you feel.

It happened to me too in 1983.

[VRWCarea51]

Say what you want but I work with electrical circuits and heavy equipment at times.

I don’t to have to depend on a co worker who isn’t smart enough to leave the mind altering drugs alone. I don’t give a shit if the idiots (Management) upstairs are stoned or not.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Wake up and smell the coffee, dude. 60+ million Americans have been aborted since 1973.”

That’s tragic - but it has little or nothing to do with unfilled blue collar jobs.

World wide, the total number of industrial jobs has been going down for almost 20 years - even in China.

In that same period of time, the amount of goods produced, and the total value of those goods, has gone up.

The only reason there is a current “shortage” of labor in America is because industrial companies have not yet figured out how to profitably replace those human beings with AI software and automation.

Bottom Line - when the productivity of machines increases faster than the productivity of people, the machines are going to win, even if the abortion rate is zero.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Two thirds of applicants at a minimum can’t pass a drug test”

I have been reading that same statistic for two decades, and I still don’t believe it.

A drug test is always the very last thing you do in the job application process.

So, two thirds of applicants are slacker drug users, but they still go through the entire hiring process KNOWING they will fail the drug test?

Sorry, that’s just not credible .

[zeestephen]

Re: “Watch how fast the drug testing policies change.”

Actually, federal law already requires a company that does pre-employment drug screening to test ALL new employees, including white collar employees and executives.

I don't know about Board members, since they are recruited, not hired.

Stockholders?

Every person with a 401K taking at least 12 drug tests per year?

I don't think that is going to work out well.

[T-Bird45]

I saw it as a hiring manager back in the 90s when it was weed. Today, it’s a pharmacist’s shelf about what shows up on the screen.