The younger workforce.

[newbury]

I agree 13.50 plus insurance an hour isn't that great but it beats the snot out of 7.50 and no insurance. The really good paying jobs near here are either in the medical fields,power company or TVA power pants which we are losing the coal plant. Not much here unless you want to travel.

The company gives raises pretty quickly when you get cdls. I make a litre more but I be been there the longest and have cdls, and do the landfill schooling, and mechanic work. I held in an got a company truck and phone too. Ive workers the 7.50 jobs till something better came along, took what I learned with me and moved up. If he didn't mean to work why put in an application and tie me up with the signing in.

C'mon $13.50 PLUS insurance WITH vacation time is darn good for a starting job in Iuka. That's almost $30K/year in a place where the MEDIAN Household income is only about $33K.
data source:Tishomingo County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

And just to point out, the county is 95% white and only a little more than 75% graduated from high school.

 

[JFoy]

Oh gawd.. someone has hit some of my hot buttons - worthless young people. Not that it is all their fault - I think they are the result. Let's see, where to start. I'm 50 yrs old and did IT for over 20 years. Got bored and decided to get a college degree. Yes, I went to college in my late 40's for my first college degree. I choose community college first and then rolled over to university. I took classes part-time and worked while I went through college. I did not borrow a dime. To be honest, I did accept financial aid (Pell grant). While in college and university, I worked as a paid tutor at the community college in math and science. To see kids who could not add 23 + 6 without using either their fingers or a calculator stunned me. To hear the kids complain about how hard a course was (considering I took the same course and found it incredibly easy) also stunned me. I took a graduate level course and placed 2nd in the class. The difference? Many nights, I was still up at 2am studying. To meet kids at the university whose home was 100 miles away, they could have gone to their local university, but chose this one for a degree in art history, and were $40K in the hole with student loans stunned me. Honestly, I often think these kids are made stupid on purpose - easier to control dumb people. I once owned a game and hobby store. Every kid in the area wanted a job there. First test was if you could make change right then and there without a calculator or computer (customer buys $23.54 worth of stuff. customer gives you a $20 and a $10. What's their change?) Sadly, maybe 1 in 20 could do it. Worse, these will be the people taking care of us as we get older.

 

[davesl708]

This cartoon is not meant to be a political statement....ignore the character depicted. It's just a statement of the current state of society today. Please don't lock the thread because of it.

That is exactly what happened to the Dutch about 20 years ago. More people were on the dole than working.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Can you imagine how easy it will be to control and dumb down the population (even more) with most of them spending an inordinate amount of time (voluntarily) staring at their little screens. Like shooting rats in a barrel.

 

[davesl708]

Can you imagine how easy it will be to control and dumb down the population (even more) with most of them spending an inordinate amount of time (voluntarily) staring at their little screens. Like shooting rats in a barrel.

It would be too easy. We (USA) are not far from that. We are now 13th in education.

 

[Taylortractornut]

It just kills me his former boss gave a good report but I think that was to get him a job before he had to fire him. I was so proud of my first paycheck as a teen. And always kept a job of some sort. Paid my way through school. Welding part time and running a scraper at the same landfill.

 

[davesl708]

It just kills me his former boss gave a good report but I think that was to get him a job before he had to fire him. I was so proud of my first paycheck as a teen. And always kept a job of some sort. Paid my way through school. Welding part time and running a scraper at the same landfill.

It doesn't pay to give bad recommendations now days. You get sued.
My first W2 wages was when I was 14. Prior to that I worked in gas stations for Dad. No pay just treats.
Never received an allowance growing up. If we wanted something we found a job from neighbors or collected pop bottles for the refund to pay for it. Shoveling snow, mowing grass or loading/unloading firewood.

 

[oldpilgrim]

When I was hiring and firing, I was told we could not give references at all, just to confirm their employment, position and dates they worked here.

We had one company who called for a reference for one of my former employees. I told them what our policy was but added, "Since it's in the public court records, I can tell you that she sued us for discrimination."

I got a very loud and sincere thank you.

 

[Industrial Toys]

The good news here is that young men can't get welfare too easily. The bad news is that they resort to crime. Can't say they have a lot of options, especially if they don't have family to help. MacDonalds and coffee shops hire University grads, so what hope does an uneducated guy have?

I used to hire casual labour but dare not do that anymore. You would be safer playing Russian Roulette nowadays. So now it hurts both the unemployed and me alike.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Think this boys parents help him too much.