O/T American work force............

Recently, after 3 1/2 years, an insurance company I'd worked for for some 10 years emailed me and lured me into coming back to work on a special project that may last six months, maybe longer, adjudicating some past claims. They also hired some temps to do data entry.

Right now, I'm spending an entire day re-doing about a day's work that one of the temps did. Her work is so full of errors, I need to check every entry. This morning, the same gal walked into my office with her cell phone in her hand, said her six month old daughter had chicken pox and asked if it was OK to bring her to work. After I told her, "Not only no, but h*** no", she disappeared for the day.

So, I'm sitting here correcting data entry when I should be adjudicating claims.

My rant for the day.

This particular temp's work is full of typos, wrong data entered in the right cell, right data entered in the wrong cell, etc. Of this bunch, the best temps we have are several ladies, middle-aged or older. They pay attention to detail, focus on doing the job right, and don't have a freakin' cell phone glued to their ear all day.

Look at role models you have 2 parents that work so kids are in daycare being raised by someone else, because mom and dad are chasing the the almighty dollar. They sat in front of the tv with bevis and butthead , sponge bob, simpsons and so one. At school the have old teachers that are not up with the real world, just getting there pay checks because the have the union saying no you have to keep them. School counselor's that tell kids they need a 4 year degree to be able to get a job, and trade school??? no no no that is for the dumb kids that are to lazy to go to college. When trade school you can learn a good trade and always have a good choice of jobs. College the kids go so far into debt for the next 20 to 30 years for what. They need to start out at the top just to pay for everything.

Who knows maybe the baby boomers wanted to think of there kids as kids, not just as labor on the family farm. Maybe that is why there kids are a little less ambitious than those who had to work on the farm.

Good fix is let the government help those who need it when they are out of work. After a month of hand outs quit, there is no reason someone could not find a job it that amount of time.

Lend a helping hand to pick someone up not hold them up.

Here at the water factory we had some general painting and cleaning we could not get caught up on. I tried to get the bosses to get some college interns for the summer. They went with temps. First one came back from lunch the first day unable to walk well and stinking of pot. Second one was totaly unable to operate a weedeater. The 3rd was by far the best. I came in one night and every one was tore up because our temp had gone to the hospital. He was painting the trim around a 12' door and the cherry picker dropped him. A hose came off the up and down cylinder. I called BULL CHIT! Went out and there was bout 10 gallons of oil on the ground, paint was everywhere, my boss was about to cry thinking we were going to get in a law suit, and a 1/2" hose was hang'n loose. I got to looking IT WAS THE DOWN PRESURE HOSE THAT WAS LOOSE. Went to the tool box and sure nuff, there was a cresent wrench and a pair of channel locks covered in hydrolic fluid! We pulled the tape out of the security camera, good ol' boy went out tryed to cut the line with a knife, took it loose, pumped out all the oil, tossed paint every where, went back in the shop. Last I heard the temp company still had charges pressed against him.
You just can't find good help anymore.
Dave

There ARE competent workers out there...employers just have to NOT hire the incompetent ones, and then pay the competent ones what they're worth. It's a pretty simple procedure, really.

The last compentent person I hired, starting on a Monday worked three days and stopped showing up without a call. The next week on Friday morning he called and wanted to pick up his check. I told him sure just come to the office. I then ask why he had not shown up or called. He said, Oh I see I was not cut out for that kind of work. This was not a kid and had a good 20 year work record at the same place. Tuff job it is here, you take plastic parts out of a press lay them on a table to cool and then pack them in a box.

The next three I hired failed to even start. No call just no show. Do all the paper work, file the forms, enter them in the system to print a time card and then no show.

I know I am from Ohio and the lack of jobs here has every one so depressed they just hate to have a job with all there friends out of work.

I blame the NEA ( No Education Allowed)

Dave

Let me know where they hang out. I could use some.

This generation of NEA rejects is pathetic. They can't spell, have no idea what proper grammar is and have the work ethic of a bum.

Competent people ARE out there, if you look in the right places and pay them what they're worth. If you're paying crap wages, you'll get crap employees. And if your hiring standards aren't high enough, even if you pay decent wages you may still get crap employees, but then it's YOUR fault for hiring them and thereby rewarding their incompetence, even if only temporarily.

I am only 70 so I will wait around for the opinion in 30 years.

I am only 70 so I will wait around for the opinion in 30 years.

They all have a heck of a work ethic. I painted a pickup for a young man once, and when I was done he wouldn't come and pick it up on a Sunday. All he would have had to have done was write me a check and drive off with the pickup, but he considered that doing business on Sunday.