Posted by oldtanker on March 09, 2014 at 05:02:19 from (66.228.255.116):
Please don't get politics in this.
Jobs was the subject and the trouble finding help. People posted that it was the welfare mentality that was hurting employers. With some people that's true. With others it goes back to the school system. I remember in grade school in the 60's the teachers telling us how we didn't want "blue collar" work. You wanted to be a lawyer, not a construction worker. You wanted to be doctor not a mechanic. You wanted to be a politician not a garbage collector. Then they started telling us that we could all be whatever we wanted without regard to a persons ability, both in attitude and intelligence. I know people who just don't have the intelligence to be a doctor or a lawyer but can operate a dozer or turn a wrench just fine. I'm sure most of you do too. So basically they were lying to us.
Now today we have a lot of people who are unemployed, many through no fault of their own initially when their job disappeared. We even had a poster on here, who admitted that he had lost his job because it went off shore and he had been unemployed for 8 years. He was determined that he wasn't going to go back to work for less than what he had been making and only in his career field. There are a lot of folks out there with this attitude. I don't think most of us understand it but it's there. Then there are the people who really believe it's below their level to get their hands dirty. Sure they will take a job but not where they have to break a sweat or get their hands dirty.
Lot of time the type of employment or job requirements makes it hard to find help. Like farm work. I know people who would work for a farmer if it were year round with bennies. But how many farmers are willing to keep someone on in the off season? Trucking companies have a hard time keeping help. Lot of people are willing to be gone a lot till they find a significant other. Then they want to be home every night.
So it's not that most people don't want to work. They just don't want that type of job.
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