Posted on 08/07/2018 11:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
And when you say, “non-felon” what exactly do you mean by “felon?” Is the State of Ohio furloughing people to apply for these jobs? Or do you mean black people who LOOK like they NEED jobs and therefore these employers associate them with hustlers and robbers and thieves?
Hell, even ex-cons need work and can ably do work.
But I do feel for you with the complain that so many workers can’t read and do math.
But 90% can.
So true. The pay that is offered is very low, make that ridiculously low, for the education, experience, and responsibility required for many positions.
Most low end jobs don’t require a whole lot of edumacation.
” Problem is with the applicants. “
A lot of people would never dream of moving away from family and friends and community for a job. Especially moving to a place that isn’t “cool”. The person I know who has a Masters Degree and no stable job is like that. Also, people in “ghettos” of their own kind don’t want to step out and live with strangers. I had a co-worker with two kids. I pointed out that she could buy a cheaper home out in the desert, but she said she didn’t want to be out there alone with all the white people (she was African American). Rather struggle to pay the rent in Compton.
It’s not rocket science. Make not working less attractive. Stop coddling people who can’t or won’t give up their drug habits and other excuses with any more benefits than they require for survival. DC elitists, both political parties: start putting it on employers to raise wages so that someone who’s fully qualified for and works hard at a job can make a living wage with a path to move up. And, oh yeah, make darn sure H1B Visas and work permits aren’t given to invaders if there are qualified US citizens available, and give them the wage they are qualified to earn.
All of these stories are cover for the Koch Bros open border agenda. Wages are still not keeping up with infatuation!
Fixed.
I know of a particular manufacturing facility in this area where 63% of job applicants are failing the drug test.
“I’ve been through Dayton lots of times, and when an employer says he can’t find qualified workers, what he’s really saying is that he can’t find enough non-druggies and non-felons who have a work ethic, can follow directions and can read and do basic math.”
I lived in Dayton area for 14 years and still go there 1-2 times per year to visit my wife’s family. Your description fits Dayton to a ‘T’. It is a very depressed area and very unique in how the local people handle all those problems. So glad to get out of there 19 years ago.
Fixed.
Yes, anyone who graduates a college with a degree in victims’ studies is missing out for a chance for a real education. But you’d be surprised how much Human Resources departments LOVE a good victims’ studies major. And truth be told, only about 10% of U.S. jobs require a professional degree, like engineering, medicine, law, education, business management, pharmacy, nursing, therapy, etc. A well-designed liberal arts degree SHOULD (key word: SHOULD!) provide the tools to help a student prosper in just about any job field outside of a “profession.”
There is no guarantee that an employee who just waltzed over the border is going to pass a drug test either.
SO offer $17.00/hr. No one yet? $18.00/hr. See how that works? Not so hard is it?
I hearing from friends who work in local industries that a high percentage of applicants ( avg around 70% ) can’t pass a drug test.
When I started, they were so desperate for people that they actually ran training programs, full time for 6 and 7 weeks, to get warm bodies hired off the street ready to do the job. Its how I started, its the best thing that ever happened to me. The various companies doing it probably trained thousands during that period... then those programs went away and never came back.
With H1Bs you don’t have to train your own people, you import people from abroad and still wind up training them.
But if they tighten the borders, tighten work visa programs, companies might find themselves actually training rookies again. What a concept.
Non felon: somebody I can feel reasonably confident that he won’t steal from me or get into a fight with co-workers or customers.
Those thousands are unemployable dregs.
A study by the Department of Education in 2008 found that 5% of recent ‘college graduates’ are illiterate, and another 20% read at the 5th-grade level.
So the minimum-wage workers with bachelor’s degrees may just be doing the best they can with the skills they’ve got...
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