Re: College Degrees? OT


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Posted by Kevin in Ohio [50.102.63.94] on Thursday, August 08, 2013 at 13:54:51 :

In Reply to: College Degrees? OT posted by Sterling from TX [99.58.180.94] on Thursday, August 08, 2013 at 11:30:23 :

Nothing wrong with getting education but I get a little sickened by how the trend is going.

I work in a factory that makes precision stamping tools. They used to hire anyone off the street after a basic interview and weed them out from there. Do good at your job, meet the quota with good parts and you were able to move up when a job opened up.

Now they want over half the work centers to have schooling from the local junior college that quite frankly doesn't apply to the machines we have. Sadly, most of the ones that have the degree are the most lost and slowest learners. To me it seems management has the attitude of "We had to do it, so you should too."

Those that have the classes already get preference over those with more ON JOB experience which to me, is just wrong if they are a good employee.

They now have started wanting people who are already in the said departments to go to school because the new hires don't think its fair. They basically threatened one of my friends that they would have to remove him if he didn't do it. He is the ONLY one in the work center who has low scrap and runs the quota. He "tries" to train the new people and it drives him nuts.

He told them to go ahead and drop him down and they could find someone else to train. They dropped it.

They wanted me to become a toolmaker which is something I'd like to do. To get in there the classes involved was basically a 4 year degree. when I started penciling out the fuel costs for classes, their tiered wage increase based on your time there(not ability), loss of shift preference, manditory travel if needed, and lost free time involved. I told them to pull my application.

When the plant manager asked me why I said it isn't worth it to me at this stage of my life. I then told him that the reason most of us were here is that we didn't want to go yo school in the first place, Just wanted to work with our hands and learn a trade. I asked him if he didn't see the irony of what they were doing and he just hung his head.

I wish there were more like you Manny but sadly there is not.

So for that reason, I'd say go for your paper. Ability seems to be not as important to most employers anymore.



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