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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Exactly right. There are, and have been, help wanted signs all over the place for the past 2-3 years.
I have talked to a number of business owners around town, as well as in my travels, and many are hiring now or have been looking for some time. However, they all share a common bitch about the caliber of individuals available to pick from.
For any one job, you will get 100 applicants. Out of those 100, 90% are not even worth interviewing for any number of reasons (drugs, entitlement, unrealistic expectations, work history, etc.). Out of the couple that are left, you have to try and find a viable candidate you want to train or can handle the work, which is not easy.
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When I was living in Northern California, there was a job fair at Coca Cola. I went in, I was starting to fill out the form when I was asked to come in the office for the interview. The jobs they were hiring for involved some electronics background. He showed me a circuit board and asked me to identify a component on it, I told him it was a capacitor and the rating was like 35 micro farads. He just laughed and said I was hired. It was the second day and the end of the day and I was the only person to say it was a capacitor and he didn't know about the color coding on them was the same as resistors, let alone what the colors meant. I still remember today after being taught that in high school.
During that time, some guy with the name "Steve Austin" failed the drug test for meth, they allowed him to test again 2 weeks later and he failed again. It's only in your blood for 3 days! LOL
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that